''Hunger's Brides'' is a historical and

biographical novel The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life. Like other forms of biographical fiction, details are often trimmed or reimagined to meet the artistic needs of the fictio ...

written by Canadian author W. Paul Anderson. The novel deals with the life of the 17th century Mexican scholar and poet Sor

Juana Inés de la Cruz Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), was a Hieronymite nun and a Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, nicknamed "Th ...

, interwoven with a modern narrative. Subtitled ''A Novel of the Baroque'', it is epic in scope, nearly 1500 pages long, and represents twelve years of work by the author. A shorter version of the novel has been published as ''Sor Juana or the Breath of Heaven: The Essential Story from the Epic, Hunger's Brides''.

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''Hunger's Brides'' Website
2005 Canadian novels Canadian historical novels Biographical novels Novels set in Mexico Novels set in the 17th century Juana Inés de la Cruz {{Canada-novel-stub