The Festival of San Joaquin (Macmillan Caribbean Writers) - Softcover

Edgell, Zee

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9780230029910: The Festival of San Joaquin (Macmillan Caribbean Writers)

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ISBN 10: 0230029914 ISBN 13: 9780230029910

Publisher: Macmillan Caribbean, 2009

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Marina, cleared of a murder charge for taking the life of her brutal husband, is released from prison on a three-year probation. Determined to rebuild her life and gain custody of her children, she is sustained by mother love and faith in God as she fights against the poverty, guilt, vanity and vengeance which threaten to overwhelm her.In this novel, set in the Mestizo community in Belize, Zee Edgell explores with sensitivity and understanding the contradictory and secret territory that is domestic violence.

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Luz Marina, jailed for the murder of her violent husband, returns to her home village, hoping to leave the past behind and win back custody of her children. But first she must reckon with the ill-will of her former employer and mother-in-law, the wealthy landowner Do�a Catalina, who plots to ruin Luz Marina’s chances of rebuilding her life. This novel, set among the mestizo Spanish communities of rural Belize, gives a sympathetic and moving portrait of peasant life.Zee Edgell is Belize’s foremost writer, and the first Belizean to reach an international audience for her literature. A journalist, she has served as Director of the Department of Women’s Affairs of Belize and Head of the Women’s Bureau of Belize; Secretary to the Governing Board for Concerned Women For Family Planning in Dacca, Bangladesh; and UNICEF Consultant to The Somali Women’s Democratic Organization in Mogadishu, Somali. She currently teaches creative writing at Kent State University in Ohio. Her other novels are Beka Lamb (winner of the Fawcett Society Book Prize), In Times Like These and Time and the River.“Zee Edgell’s style seems at first quite bald and unadorned, but develops its own cadence as the narrative starts to mesh together. This is a warm, satisfying story, a testament to struggle and hope which manages to draw in, quite skillfully and simply, wider themes such as environmental profiteering and the role of the evangelical church as aspects of the community’s life.” —The New Internationalist “A very fine addition to the canon of novels from the Caribbean by women and to the literature of the region itself.” —The Caribbean Writer

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Zee Edgell is the author of Beka Lamb and In Times Like These. Beka Lamb won the 1982 Fawcett Society Book Prize, and was the first novel by a Belizean to reach an international audience.

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