The Locator -- [(title = "sleeping city")]

5 records matched your query       

Record 5 | Previous Record | MARC Display | Next Record | Search Results
Author:
Yánez Cossío, Alicia, 1929-
Title:
Bruna and her sisters in the sleeping city / Alicia Yánez Cossío ; translated from the Spanish by Kenneth J.A. Wishnia.
Publisher:
Northwestern University Press,
Copyright Date:
1999
Description:
228 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Ecuadorians--Fiction.
Young women--Ecuador--Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Ecuador--Fiction.
Ecuador--Fiction.
Other Titles:
Bruna, soroche y los tíos. English
Summary:
A magic-realism novel set in Ecuador which traces an eccentric family's history from the Conquest to modern times. One woman paints her face white for a portrait to hide her Indian origin, another weaves a carpet intended to stretch to Rome so as to encourage the Pope to visit.
ISBN:
9780810114081 (cloth : alk. paper)
0810114089 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)41871704
LCCN:
99039373
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

Initiate Another SILO Locator Search

This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.