вЂњHer essence was the sickness, and the house was festering, rotting with her from the inside out.вЂќ Beatriz doesnвЂ™t have a chance at happiness. вЂњThe HaciendaвЂќ is a supernatural Gothic romance in the vein of вЂњRebeccaвЂќ and вЂњWuthering Heights,вЂќ and like its predecessors, a furious woman is at the bottom of the trouble: MarГa Catalina, RodolfoвЂ™s first wife. There is one with eyes вЂњgolden and hugeвЂќ and вЂњrazor-thin teeth, like the maw of an eel.вЂќ Others have snouts and rounded ears, resembling in coloration and features the jaguarundi,вЂќ or вЂњblack spots and streaks of an ocelot.вЂќ His hybrids, as he calls them, are вЂњa miracle or a curse made fleshвЂќ one never knows for sure. To make the pig walk upright or the dog speak a variety of words,вЂќ he explains. вЂњI mean to fashion animals into something different, to carve them into new shapes. Moreau, a mad scientist, experiments on animals. Set amid the complex tensions of the Caste War, when вЂњthe native Maya people of the peninsula rose against the Mexican, European-descended and mixed population,вЂќ the novel immerses readers in the rich world of 19th-century Mexico, exploring colonialism and resistance in a compulsively readable story of a womanвЂ™s coming-of-age.Дr. WellsвЂ™s вЂњThe Island of Doctor MoreauвЂќ in the YucatГЎn Peninsula. THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU (Del Rey, 306 pp., $28, to be published July 19), her eighth novel, reimagines H.G. The imagination of Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a thing of wonder, restless and romantic, fearless in the face of genre, embracing the polarities of storytelling - the sleek and the bizarre, wild passions and deep hatreds - with cool equanimity.

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