![]() When President Lazaro Cardenas's 1930s agrarian reforms drove the family estate into bankruptcy, the Castellanoses moved from their home in southern Chiapas to Mexico City. When Rosario's younger brother Mario died of a ruptured appendix some weeks later, the inconsolable mother cried out at the funeral, "But why the boy?" The family never recovered from the death of the male heir. Rosario's mother cried out, " Pero no el varon!" (But not the boy!) When Rosario Castellanos - Mexican writer, scholar and diplomat - was 8 years old, a cousin who consulted spiritists stormed into Rosario's parents' dining room with her gray hair standing on end and announced that one of their children was destined to die. ![]() : The Sorrows of the Mayaīy Rosario Castellanos Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
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