by Elena Poniatowska · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420416830
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La piel del cielo is a novel by the acclaimed Mexican author Elena Poniatowska, winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2001 and the Cervantes Prize in 2013. The story follows Lorenzo de Tena, a man destined to unravel the mysteries of astronomy, who must fight against social inequalities and political temptations to realize his vocation. However, the greatest challenges come from the passions and feelings hidden in people. This novel brings us closer to the most unattainable challenges: the stars and love.
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.
