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Tinisima

by Elena Poniatowska · 1992

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In 1929, Modotti was accused of the murder of Julio Antonio Mella, her Cuban lover. She fled to the USSR to escape the Mexican press and then to Europe, where she became a Soviet secret agent and a nurse under an assumed name, returning to Mexico to meet an early death at the age of forty-five.

Genre
historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
artartMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
MexicoMexicoMore like thisLess of thisLatin AmericaLatin AmericaMore like thisLess of thisSpainSpainMore like thisLess of this
Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 357 pages

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