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Tear This Heart Out

Tear This Heart Out
Release date: 2008-09-12
Rating: 7.9
Votes: 121
Genres: Romance, Drama
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.

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