Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

"Juan es el esclavo del gran pintor español Diego Velázquez ... pero Juan es también artista que aprendió por su cuenta observando la técnica del amo. Si bien ese trabajo está prohibido a los esclavos .. ?qué pasará cuando de sepa la verdad?"--P. of cover. Juan de Pareja, the slave who prepares the paints and canvases of the artist Velázquez, describes his work with his master and the climate of Spanish court life.

Even though a daughter of the leading family of Atlantis foresees that her brother will be instrumental in the destruction of their homeland, nothing can be done to prevent the tragedy.

Following the Second World War a little boy and his violin-maker father, destitute and without proper identification, walk the long and often dangerous journey from Hungary to Italy where the father has been promised a good job.

A biography of a Zapotec Indian who, as a civil leader and as president, championed equal rights for the poor of Mexico and whose memory is honored annually by a national holiday.

A blind boy's life is changed when he regains his sight after participating in a traditional Mexican village devotion honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The slave of the 17th century Spanish painter Velazquez becomes a painter in his own right.

The author describes her life after she falls in love with and marries a Mexican man in the 1930s and moves from the United States to Mexico.

The reader is likely to be seduced by the flowing narrative and the remarkable characters, but sooner or later it is borne in that - along with the Golden Rule - the formula for a satisfactory life is joy in the human condition and the disposition to be equal to whatever presents itself. Amazon.

His father's loyalty to the Mexican president deposed by Porfirio Diaz in 1876 forces a boy known as El Güero and his family into exile to the dangerous Baja California territory.

In early nineteenth-century Mexico, sixteen-year-old Leona Vicario, loyal to Spain and engaged to a wealthy widower, struggles to come to terms with her growing revolt against Spain's harsh treatment of Mexicans and her love for a young revolutionary lawyer.