by Elena Poniatowska · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420442419
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«La piel del cielo» is the novel by Elena Poniatowska published by Alfaguara in hardcover, with 448 pages, in Spanish.
Lorenzo de Tena, talented and rebellious, aspires to devote himself to astronomy. His path collides with social inequalities, bureaucracy, and political temptations, but the greatest challenges come not from science but from the most hidden part of people: affections and passions. In his search for the sky, he finds the challenge of love.
Novel winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize 2001. Part of the Alfaguara Hispánica collection.
For readers of contemporary Hispanic American narrative and historical fiction set in Mexico.
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.
