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Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation.
Set in the early 1800s, this novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full-bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent, from Juan's wise and self-sacrificing tutor, Brother Justo, to the ruthless colonial general Goyeneche.
The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement.
Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country.
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Juan de la Rosa: memorias del último soldado de la Independencia
2010, Vicepresidencia del Estado Plurinacional
in Spanish
- Primera edición en esta colección.
9997484797 9789997484796
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Juan de la Rosa (Large Print Edition)
June 26, 2007, BiblioBazaar
Paperback
in Spanish
1426483813 9781426483813
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Juan de la Rosa: memorias del último soldado de la Independencia
2005, Biblioteca Ayacucho
in Spanish
9802763837 9789802763832
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Juan de la Rosa: Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement (Library of Latin America)
January 5, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
0195113284 9780195113280
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Juan de la Rosa: memoirs of the last soldier of the independence movement : a novel
1998, Oxford University Press
in English
0195113276 9780195113273
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Juan de la Rosa: memorias del último soldado de la Independencia
1991, Ediciones de Cultura Hispánica
in Spanish
8472326055 9788472326057
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Juan de la Rosa: memorias del ultimo soldado de la independencia.
1969, Los Amigos del Libro
in Spanish
- 9th ed.
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Juan de la Rosa: memorias del último soldado de la independencia.
1964, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires
in Spanish
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Juan de la Rosa: memorias del último soldado de la independencia (literatura boliviana)
1943, Editorial America
in Spanish
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Juan de la Rosa: memorias del último soldado de la independencia. (Literatura boliviana)
1943, Editorial América
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