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Elena Poniatoska winner of the famous Cervantes award for best latin amaerican author.

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Library Journal Review

Noteworthy Mexican novelist Poniatowska and Tina Modotti, the radical photographer linked to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Edward Weston, would seem a potent combination. Though this novel indeed probes powerfully into the psyche of Tinisima, as she is called by murdered lover Julio Antonio Mella, this novel does not quite ignite as it should. As she moves from the murder of Mella, of which Tinisima is accused in an obvious setup because of the couple's Communist activities, through the trial, the liaison with Weston, and on to Europe for more politcal activity, the reader has a slight, much-regretted sense of plodding. This is too bad, since Tinisima is herself such a dynamic subject. There is evocative writing here, and plenty of rich detail, but it should have been better. For literary collections.‘Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal" (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

An intensely imagined, sensuously detailed account of the extraordinary life of photographer and militant revolutionary Tina Modotti (1896-1942), this compelling novel reflects the political and social turbulence of the 1920s through the '40s as experienced by a brave and vibrant woman who was an intimate of some of the leading poets, writers, artists and politicians of her time. Modotti lived various roles in her passionate life: she was a seamstress in San Francisco, an actress in silent films, a student and lover of photographer Edward Weston, a model for Diego Rivera's murals, an agent for the Soviet Union and always a cultural, intellectual and political vivant whose sensuous spirit captivated men and, for a time, the entire Mexican population (they called her Tinisima, a diminutive of her name but also an endearment). Tracing Modotti's footsteps to California, Mexico, Berlin, Moscow and Spain, Poniatowska adroitly interprets history without marginalizing the lyricism of Modotti's tragic quest for identity and true love. In Mexico in 1929, young Cuban revolutionary Julio Antonio Mella is assassinated while walking arm-in-arm with Modotti. Eager to rid the country of communist sympathizers, the government accuses Tina of his murder. Rivera and other prominent Mexican intelligentsia eventually help win her freedom. Expelled from Mexico, Modotti lives for a time in Moscow, becomes an agent for Red Aid, the international revolutionary organization, and works for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. Tired and ill, in 1939 she returns to Mexico, where she remains unrecognized until her death, when Pablo Neruda immortalizes her in a poem. One of Mexico's leading writers, Poniatowska (Dear Diego) has made an art form of blending journalism and fiction. She tells this novel in an urgent present tense, segueing among short, vivid scenes with cinematic virtuosity. Ten years of research and a thorough knowledge of the currents of history contribute to this portrait, but equally important is Poniatowska's intuitive appreciation of a woman shaped and destroyed by her tumultuous times. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Renowned Mexican writer Poniatowska has drawn on her considerable journalistic and novelistic talents in this magnificent re-creation of the life of photographer and revolutionary Tina Modotti (1896-1942). One usually thinks of Modotti as the young, sensually beautiful Italian taking pictures in Mexico with her enraptured companion, Edward Weston, but her life evolved into something far more complex and tragic. Communism and the plight of the poor meant far more to Modotti than her photographs, and her leftist activities soon embroiled her in a wildly sensationalized court case that galvanized Mexico, including such luminaries as Diego Rivera, and led inexorably to her deportation. Exiled from her exuberant life in sunny Mexico, she lived a grim and lonely existence in Moscow, where she put away her camera, pretty clothes, and joie de vivre forever, sacrificing all for the Communist cause. Poniatowska's profoundly moving evocation of her heroine's boundless soul flows like blood through the carefully erected factual structure of the real Modotti's astonishing life story. And Poniatowska does even more than imaginatively portray this remarkable woman: she captures the ambience of Modotti's volatile and violent worlds. A tour de force, Tinisima is a work to treasure. (Reviewed Sept. 15, 1996)0374277850Donna Seaman

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Elena Poniatowska is the author of more than forty works, including the classic Massacre in Mexico and the novels Dear Diego and Tinisima (FSG, 1996). She lives in Mexico City.

(Bowker Author Biography)