The Miracle Worker
ABOUT
THE BOOK
A murder mystery set in Mexico city, in which the Miracle Worker of the title becomes embroiled in the machinations of a ruthless and ambitious man. Magic, spirituality and the human need for love are all explored in this intensely gripping novel, which tells the stories of those who go to the miracle worker as a last resort as well as that of the woman herself.
Original title in Spanish La Milagrosa published by Ediciones Era (1994)
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Amanda
Hopkinson
Amanda Hopkinson is an academic, writer and literary translator. Her first biography was of the Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (Virago 1988). Since then she has published monographs of the Latin American photographers Martin Chambi (Phaidon 2000) and Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Phaidon 2002) and written a history of Latin American photography (Reaktion forthcoming). She has edited and contributed to histories and encyclopaedias of photography [Gale Research] and of Latin American culture (Routledge 2000; 2019 & 2020). She has curated exhibitions and written/edited catalogues for The Photographers’ Gallery (work by Latin American women photographers) and the Barbican (work by Brazilian baiano photographers) among other galleries. She reviews photographic books exhibitions and contributes photographers’ obituaries to The Guardian and The Times newspapers and to BBC Radio.
In addition, the fascination with Latin American/Iberian culture has resulted in over 50 translations of authors including Isabel Allende; Elena Poniatowska; José Saramago and anthologies of both poetry [the first, Lovers and Comrades by Central American poet/activists, Women’s Press, 1989] and prose (most recently Lisbon Tales (OUP 2020)).
Amanda Hopkinson is an academic, writer and literary translator. Her first biography was of the Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (Virago 1988). Since then she has published monographs of the Latin American photographers Martin Chambi (Phaidon 2000) and Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Phaidon 2002) and written a history of Latin American photography (Reaktion forthcoming). She has edited and contributed to histories and encyclopaedias of photography [Gale Research] and of Latin American culture (Routledge 2000; 2019 & 2020). She has curated exhibitions and written/edited catalogues for The Photographers’ Gallery (work by Latin American women photographers) and the Barbican (work by Brazilian baiano photographers) among other galleries. She reviews photographic books exhibitions and contributes photographers’ obituaries to The Guardian and The Times newspapers and to BBC Radio.
In addition, the fascination with Latin American/Iberian culture has resulted in over 50 translations of authors including Isabel Allende; Elena Poniatowska; José Saramago and anthologies of both poetry [the first, Lovers and Comrades by Central American poet/activists, Women’s Press, 1989] and prose (most recently Lisbon Tales (OUP 2020)).