Dona Ines Versus Oblivion

Here is an epic of history, riven with themes of oppression and freedom, rivalry, hatred, shame, revolution and reconciliation. Through the intimate confessions of one family's three-hundred year story, Ana Torres presents us with an extraordinary, revisionist history of the land and people of Venezuela.

A journal of the tragic clash of classes, of the interface between humanity and geography, 'Dona Ines versus Oblivion' depicts the maturing of Venezuela as a work of fiction, conveyed through the lives of powerful characters, in a flowing prose accented with the exotic. It is a story - and a voice - that will not be forgotten.

Winner of the Mobil's Pegasus Prize for Literature