by Elena Poniatowska · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466368698
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«El tren pasa primero» is the novel by Elena Poniatowska published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (560 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Trinidad Pineda Chiñas, a man born in a town in Oaxaca whose life changes when he sees a train pass by. That encounter awakens in him a thirst for knowledge that leads him to discover places, trades, and people, and to become a leader of railway workers, whose struggle comes to challenge the regime. The work also highlights the role of the women who support these men.
It won the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize in 2007. The Punto de Lectura edition belongs to the Latin American Narrative collection.
Recommended for readers of Mexican social and historical fiction and for those who follow the work of Elena Poniatowska.
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.
