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| Author | Rosy Hugener with Carl Hugener |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Romance |
| Publisher | Shared Pen LLC, 2011 (Chicago) |
| Publication place | Mexico, US |
| Pages | 188 (English) |
| ISBN | 978-1456577155 |
Xtabentum: A Novel of Yucatan is a novel published in 2011 by first-time Mexican Yucatan [1] American novelist Rosy Hugener, who resides in Long Grove, Illinois. [2] [3]
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The characters Felipe Carrillo Puerto and Alma Reed are true historical figures. Carrillo Puerto was a progressive governor of Yucatan and is still honored by the indigenous people of the region. His downfall and death were as depicted in Xtabentum. Alma Reed was famous in her own right; she campaigned successfully as a journalist against the death penalty for minors in California and worked tirelessly for the restoration to Mexico of Mayan relics. While Carlos Ancona is fictional, his father Eligio Ancona and his brother Antonio Ancona are historical figures, and are the great-great-grandfather and great-grandfather, respectively, of author Rosa Hugener. Some of Carlos Ancona's background, including being the personal journalist of Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, was actually lived by Antonio Ancona and passed as family lore to his descendants. [4] [5] The book has Maya numerals at the beginning of the chapters.
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