Hasta no verte Jesús mío

Published in 1969 and inspired by the life and testimonies of a real person, "Until I see you, my Jesus" tells of the vicissitudes of Jesusa Palancares, a woman of humble extraction from Oaxaca, orphaned by a mother at an early age, who ends up knowing everything the country by joining, hand in hand with her husband, the troops of the Mexican revolution. Once a widow, she moves and settles in the capital, where she will have to survive dedicating herself to the hard work of the factories and not least of the houses, as a maid and a laundress. Her harsh existence will lead her to find refuge in spirituality and religion, and to believe in reincarnation. Narrated in the first person, in a popular language treated with special sensitivity, humor, violence, veiled commitment, the living presence of death and hallucination are combined in the pages of this novel in which the unshakable social conscience is evident. and Elena Poniatowska's commitment to the most disadvantaged.