Queremos compartir el nuevo fruto de nuestra querida compañera Judy Ress, integrante fundadora de Con-spirando. Acaba de publicar su novela en ingles, llamada Blood Flowers. Judy nos comparte:

"Estuve escribiendo esta novela desde 1983.  Blood Flowers es mi homenaje a las cuatro religiosas asesinadas en El Salvador en 1980.  Como quizás algunas de Uds. saben, yo fue misionera en El Salvador en los años sesenta y la monja que me reemplazó fue una de las que murieron.  Es una novela histórica de estos tiempos de la teología de la liberación, de las luchas por un socialismo que pensamos que ingenuamente iba a traer al "reino de Díos” a los pobres de América Latina. Comienza en Chile durante los años de la dictadura y termina en El Salvador.  Y aunque es histórico, al final es sobre las relaciones humanas donde las Sister Meg y Sister Theo muestran otra manera de ser seguidoras de Jesús."  

 Blood Flowers, Mary Judith Ress (cover blurb)

In 1969, Sister Meg Carney is fresh out of the Novitiate and sent as a missionary to Chile—just in time to witness the overthrow of the socialist government of Salvador Allende. In the aftermath of the brutal military coup, the priest she works with is murdered and she herself is the target of surveillance.

Burned out, grieving over the loss of her compañero, Alfredo, and no longer the young nun who had set out so enthusiastically to bring God’s word to the Chilean people six years earlier, Meg accepts an invitation from her Mother Superior to work in El Salvador where she will join Theo, her best pal from Novitiate days, and her former Novice Mistress “Queen

Mum.” Smugly feeling she is now a savvy missionary, Meg is soon set straight by Theo who tells her an entirely different revolution is taking place in El Salvador. Fed by Biblical reflection rather than by Marxist analysis, Meg is soon caught up in events that bring revolutionary forces to a head. As Meg—a woman burdened by her vow of chastity—struggles with her religious vocation to serve the poor, she somehow manages to fi nd love

and peace in the rawness of life.

Mary Judith Ress is a journalist and editor who has been living and working in Latin America since 1970. Her non-fiction workEcofeminism in Latin America (Orbis books, 2007)won second place in “Best Gender Issues” at the Catholic Press Association in 2007. She has

two grown sons and lives in Santiago, Chile.

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