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by Elena Poniatowska · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · 448 pages
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La piel del cielo es una fascinante novela de Elena Poniatowska que narra la historia de Lorenzo de Tena, un hombre de gran talento destinado a desentrañar los misterios de la astronomía. En su camino, Lorenzo deberá luchar contra las desigualdades sociales, las trampas burocráticas y las tentaciones políticas para realizar su vocación. Sin embargo, los mayores desafíos vendrán de la cara más oculta de las personas, donde se esconden las pasiones y los sentimientos. Esta novela nos acerca a los desafíos más inalcanzables: las estrellas y el amor.
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.
