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Nueva York hacia 1870. Henriette Faber escribe el relato de su vida. Atr#65533;s han quedado los paseos en el chateau de t#65533;a Margot, el baile de gala en el que conoci#65533; a Robert, su #65533;poca de estudiante de medicina en Par#65533;s, en la que tuvo que esconder su identidad sexual, el horror de las campa#65533;as napole#65533;nicas, los turbulentos a#65533;os en Cuba.De todo aquello ya s#65533;lo quedan recuerdos. Pero hubo un tiempo en que Henriette desafi#65533; al mundo, luch#65533; contra los prejuicios sociales y culturales existentes en su #65533;poca y se abri#65533; camino en campos vedados a la mujer de entonces: la medicina, la guerra, la libertad sexual... "Mujer en traje de batalla" es la historia de esa mujer, de un ser humano que, desde su condici#65533;n de individuo marginal, logr#65533; mantenerse fiel a sus ideales y vivir con autenticidad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The story of Henriette Faber, a woman who fought against many challenges and cultural biases during the 1800s to defense her beliefs and ideals in New York, Paris and Cuba. She even disguised herself as a man to attend medical school .

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Publishers Weekly Review

With the same outstanding attention to geographical and historical detail that he applied to his El mar de las lentejas (Sea of Lentils, Casiopea, 1999), Cuban emigre Ben!tez-Rojo writes the life-story of Henriette Fauber, an upper-class Swiss woman living in the 19th century. Like most female characters in the novel, Henriette tries to live unfettered by convention and to survive in the male-dominated world that surrounds her. She disguises herself as a man to attend medical school in Paris and, later, to work as a male surgeon in Napoleon's Grande Arme as it treks throughout Europe. Her secret male impersonation unravels at the hands of a treacherous Cuban peasant, whom she marries while working as a physician on the island. Ben!tez-Rojo beautifully reconstructs the Napoleonic battlegrounds and colonial Havana. In some cases, however, this imagery detracts from the story, as the lengthy descriptions of battles and locations tend to overshadow significant narrative events, such as Henriette's infidelity to her husband. Overall, however, this is an undeniably ambitious work, a compelling story that triumphs over its sometimes-awkward dialog and inexplicable changes from second- to first-person narration. Recommended for public and academic libraries, and bookstores interested in Cuban markets. Joseph F. Delgado, Columbia, SC (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved