3 Books by Bárbara Mujica
Requirements: .ePUB readers, 893 KB | Retail
Overview: Barbara (Bárbara) Mujica, from Los Angeles, California, is a professor of Spanish literature emerita at Georgetown University. Her latest novel is MISS DEL RIO, is based on the life of Dolores del Río, Mexico’s first female international film star. I AM VENUS, based on the enigma of the Rokeby Venus, the only extant nude of Spanish painter Diego de Velazquez. Her novel FRIDA was an international bestseller that appeared in eighteen languages. Depicting the tumultuous relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, FRIDA was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate. Mujica’s novel SISTER TERESA, based on the life of Saint Teresa de Avila, was adapted for the stage by Coco Blignaut of the Actors Studio in Los Angeles.
Genre: Fiction > Historical
Sister Teresa: The Woman Who Became Spain’s Most Beloved Saint (2008)
She is Saint Teresa—known as a mystic, reformer, and founder of convents, and the author of numerous texts that introduced her radical religious ideas and practices to a society suffering through the repressive throes of the Spanish Inquisition. In Bárbara Mujica’s masterful tale, her story—her days of youthful romance, her sensual fits of spiritual rapture, secret heritage as a Jewish convert to Catholicism, cloak-and-dagger political dealings, struggles against sexual blackmail, and mysterious illness—unfolds with a tumultuous urgency. Blending fact with fiction in vivid detail, painstakingly researched and beautifully rendered, Mujica’s tale conjures a brilliant picture of sisterhood, faith, the terror of religious persecution, the miracle of salvation, and of one woman’s challenge to the power of strict orthodoxy, a challenge that consisted of a crime of passion—her own personal relationship with God.
I am Venus (2013)
Narrated by the mysterious model who posed for Rokeby Venus, Diego Velázquez’s only surviving female nude, I Am Venus is the riveting account of a great artist’s rise to prominence, set against the backdrop of political turmoil and romantic scandal. A sweeping story of scandal and passion, and a vivid recreation of a corrupt kingdom on the brink of collapse, I Am Venus is a thrilling novel that brings to life the public and private worlds of Spain’s greatest painter.
Miss del Río: A Novel of Dolores del Río, the First Major Latina Star in Hollywood (2022)
1910, Mexico. As the country’s revolution spreads, Dolores, the daughter of a wealthy banker, must flee her comfortable life in Durango or risk death. Her family settles in Mexico City, where, at sixteen, she marries the worldly Jaime del Río. But in a twist of fate, at a party she meets an influential American director who recognizes in her a natural performer. He invites her to Hollywood, and practically overnight, the famous Miss del Río is born.
Dolores’s star quickly rises, and her days become a whirlwind of moviemaking and glamorous events. Swept up in L.A.’s glitzy inner circle, she takes her place among film royalty such as Marlene Dietrich and Orson Welles. But as her career soars, her personal life becomes increasingly complicated, with family tragedy, divorce, and real heartache. And when she’s labeled box office poison amid growing prejudice before WWII, Dolores must decide what price she’s willing to pay to achieve her dreams and if her heart and future instead lie where it all began… in Mexico.
Spanning half a century and narrated by Dolores’s fictional hairdresser and longtime friend, Miss del Río traces the life of a trailblazing woman whose legacy in Hollywood and in Mexico still shines bright today.
Download Instructions:
https://ouo.io/2SyrwG
https://ouo.io/xpd1hv
MdR:
https://ouo.io/kaUKPe
https://ouo.io/FxZ36L
