Cartucho ; and, My mother's hands

Nellie Campobello First published 1988

About this book

Cartucho and My Mother's Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. They are noteworthy, too, as one of the few first-person accounts of the female experience in the early years of the Mexican Revolution and unique in their presentation of events from a child's perspective.

Subjects

  • fiction
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • fiction, war & military
  • history
  • mexico, fiction
  • mexico, history, revolution, 1910-1920, fiction