Peru

Birds Without a Nest
by Clorinda Matto De Turner

This groundbreaking book was the subject of fierce controversy when it was published in 1889. Its author Clorinda Matto De Turner was ex-communicated by the Catholic church, effigies of her were burned and she was forced to emigrate to Argentina. One of but a few books from Peru to be published in English, a 1904 edition was shockingly mistranslated and given a modified ending that in 1996 was restored by a new translation. Despite all this, the book was effective in its protests, particularly against the repression of the native peoples of Peru.

Translated by Naomi Lindstrom
University of Texas Press, 1996
First published in 1889
ISBN 9780292751958