Mamita Yunai

"Mamita Yunai" is a mythical novel in Central American literature. Its first edition is from 1941, but in 1957, in Mexico, a second definitive edition appeared that added two sections to the primitive book and forced us to reconsider the generic limits. Praised for its ideological implications and translated into many languages, especially within the scope of so-called "real socialism", it was criticized and banned for the same reasons. It took more than fifteen years for a second edition to appear in his country, Costa Rica, however, today it is considered an essential work in Latin American literature for denouncing working conditions in fruit plantations. "Mamita Yunai" is more than a militant novel, because Carlos Luis Fallas (1909-1966) knew how to show in it the inner strength of a fighter against injustices, both at work and in life itself, creating a series of characters whose human truth It moved Pablo Neruda in "Canto general".