Three Starred Reviews for Hunger’s Brides "One of the most remarkable books in recent memory…. Impressive . . . Stands proudly alongside such works as Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE and Eduardo Galeano’s MEMORY OF FIRE." —(starred review) Quill & Quire "A tour de force. . . . A DA VINCI CODE for the literate, reminiscent of Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Carlos Fuentes at their best." —(starred review) Kirkus Reviews "An extraordinary debut, with depth of detail and narrative skill presented effortlessly throughout. . . . Highly recommended." —(starred review) Library Journal On a frigid winter's night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding. In his hands he clutches a box he has found there. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose last affair has left his career in ruins. She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students and for a brief time his lover. She had disappeared into Mexico two years earlier, following her obsession with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who was born in 1648, entered a convent at age nineteen, and became the greatest poet of her time, only to die of plague in 1695. As a police investigation closes in around Gregory, he examines the box’s contents, fearful of incriminating evidence Beulah may have against him--translated poems of Sor Juana, a travel journal, research notes on the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the Inquisition, diary entries concerning him, and a strange manuscript about Sor Juana. Based on the life of one of literature's most compelling figures, Paul Anderson's astonishing debut unveils a great poet's withdrawal from the world who at the height of her creative powers signs a vow of contrition in her own blood.