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For this fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti 18961942 ElenaPoniatowska devoted ten years of research to fully understand the woman who wasso caught up in the social and political turbulence of the preWorld War IIdecades.At different times in her life Modotti was a silent screen actress a modelfor Diego Riveras murals and a lover of photographer Edward Weston. She wasalso a champion for the Mexican people who lovingly referred to her asTinisima.In 1929 Modotti was accused of the murder of Julio Antonio Mella her Cubanlover. She fled to the U.S.S.R. to escape the Mexican press and then to Europewhere she became a Soviet secret agent and a nurse under an assumed namereturning to Mexico to meet an early death at the age of fortyfive.Poniatowska has made an art form of blending journalism and fiction. She tellsthis novel in an urgent present tense segueing among short vivid scenes withcinematic virtuosity. Ten years of research and a thorough knowledge of thecurrents of history contribute to this portrait but equally important isPoniatowskas intuitive appreciation of a woman shaped and destroyed by hertumultuous times.Publishers WeeklyPoniatowskas profoundly movingevocation of her heroines boundless soul flows like blood through thecarefully erected factual structure of the real Modottis astonishing lifestory. . . . A tour de force Tinisima is a work to treasure.Booklist «
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