by Elena Poniatowska · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420469836
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«El tren pasa primero» is the novel by Elena Poniatowska published by Alfaguara in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
Trinidad Pineda Chiñas is born in a town in southern Mexico and, upon seeing the train pass, intuits that her destiny is tied to that machine. Her thirst for knowledge leads her through unexpected trades and places until she becomes a leader of the railway workers. The novel portrays the workers' struggle against the regime and the decisive role of women in those lives.
Published in December 2005, it won the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize in 2007. It belongs to Alfaguara's Hispánica collection.
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska, is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered disenfranchised, especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents. Her mother's family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape World War II. When she was 18, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers and both fiction and nonfiction books. Her best-known work is La noche de Tlatelolco: Testimonios de historia oral, about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her left-wing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
