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Xtabentum - A Novel of Yucatan (Paperback)
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Xtabentum - A Novel of Yucatan (Paperback)
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Loot Price R378
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According to Mayan legend, the Xtabentum flower that grows wild on
the Yucatan peninsula first appeared on the grave of a
free-spirited young woman who was scorned for her passion by the
people of her village, but loved by the gods for her kind heart.
Xtabentum: A Novel of Yucatan is a story of two young women set in
the years following the Mexican Revolution in Merida, Yucatan, one
of the wealthiest cities in the world at the time. Amanda Diaz is
from the "divine caste," a small group of families of European
descent who dominate the politics and economy of the region.
Amanda's lifelong friend, Carmen, is from the opposite end of the
social spectrum, a Mayan Indian who is the daughter of one of the
Diaz family servants. Against the true historical background of
rebellion, discrimination and assassination in the unstable
country, the whipping of Carmen by a Diaz neighbor exposes the
sheltered existence of the two women and drives them apart. The
story follows Amanda through her horror at the social injustice of
the two-class Mexico to the sacrifices she makes in the name of
friendship. Parts of the story take place in modern times, where
the discovery of an old birth certificate sets Amanda's
granddaughter in search of a secret about her father's birth. Her
search, told in the first person, is blended with a third-person
account of the lives of Amanda and her contemporaries in the 1920s.
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