The Stillness of Love and Exile
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (984 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1466428287 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
She becomes torn between two men---Javier San Andrés, a composer, and Miguel Treviño---who have a mysterious connection to Miguel’s near death by drowning years before. She later escapes to a small desert town on the Mexican/Texas border where it seems as if the past co-exists with the present, and a fortune-teller predicts she will fall in love three times. Part Science fiction, part historical romance, the story examines the relationship between desire, identity, and reality.. The tranquil fate of Lilia Cantú is torn apart when a drug lord rapes her and shames her into marriage
. She draws on this history as well as her interest in science for her fiction. Her family roots in the Mexican states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon date back to the mid-1500's. About the Author Rosa Martha Villarreal is a Texas native and resident of California
She draws on this history as well as her interest in science for her fiction. Rosa Martha Villarreal is a Texas native and resident of California. . Her family roots in the Mexican states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon date back to the mid-1500's
M. espinosa said the stillness of love and exile. THE STILLNESS OF LOVE AND EXILE is a tale of adventure and romance with visionary and philosophical undertones.Lilia, a beautiful young Mexican girl, is raped by a drug lord. Unable to face her family afterwards, she flees with him. Eventually she escapes her tormenter and moves to a small town in northern Mexico which is steeped in its Spanish past. She falls in love with three different men. The first, Javier San Andres, "believed himself to be a traveling composer of boleros from Seville." The second, Miguel, a Californian, has come to the town seek. "Literary Romance Uses Magical Realism" according to Cindy W. Bonner. In the opening pages of Texas native, Rosa Martha Villarreal's literary romance, "The Stillness of Love and Exile," we meet 16-year-old Lilia Cantu, set to begin "her journey along the highway of desire." Her body has newly bloomed into a woman, but she is shy and immature. She doesn't understand the leering, catcalls from the men she passes on her way to market in her Coahuila hometown of Nueva Rosita.The loudest, most vulgar man of the pack, Kiko Mendoza, ambushes Lilia and rapes her. Afterwards, too ashamed to face her family's anguish and the scorn. Shirley Priscilla Johnson said Dramatic!. In this dramatic novel we meet a young Mexican woman Lilia and experience the death of her spirit when she endures a brutal rape and is forced into a marriage that lacks love, compassion or any form of marital bliss. For six years Lilia endures abuse and to survive she crawls within herself merely existing. Miraculously she finally finds the courage to escape her captor and travels to Hidalgo to live with her grandfather. Fearful that her husband will find her and kill her, Lilia must still hide in the shadows. This is where supernatural and natural be