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| Title | : | The Hummingbird's Daughter (The Hummingbird's Daughter) |
| Author | : | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 528 pages |
| Published | : | April 3rd 2006 by Back Bay Books (first published May 17th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Magical Realism |
Luis Alberto Urrea
Paperback | Pages: 528 pages Rating: 4.18 | 10604 Users | 1519 Reviews
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The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico. It is 1889, and the civil war is brewing in Mexico. Sixteen year old Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher Don Tomas Urrea, wakes from the strangest dream - a dream that she has died. Only it was not a dream. This passionate and rebellious young woman has arisen from the dead with the power to heal - but it will take all her faith to endure the trials that await her and her family now that she has become the Saint of Cabora. The Hummingbird's Daughter is a vast, hugely satisfying novel of love and loss, joy and pain. Two decades in the writing, this is the masterpiece that Luis Alberto Urrea has been building up to.Specify Books Concering The Hummingbird's Daughter (The Hummingbird's Daughter)
| Original Title: | The Hummingbird's Daughter |
| ISBN: | 0316154520 (ISBN13: 9780316154529) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Hummingbird's Daughter |
| Setting: | Mexico |
| Literary Awards: | Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2006) |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 10604 Users | 1519 ReviewsEvaluate Appertaining To Books The Hummingbird's Daughter (The Hummingbird's Daughter)
First read Luis Alberto Urreas Hummingbirds Daughter nearly 13 years ago. It is still incredible! Something about Urreas ability to evoke the landscape and capture a mood really drew me into this story. The mix of the lyrical and the historical evokes the political and social upheaval of the period. And then there is Urreas writing style. Maybe its just me, but when I read magic realism I think revolution. It is also super interesting to me that Urrea took stories about a distant family member,I still dream of this book. And a year later, I am still looking for this book, remade. Like an old girlfired or a wife now dead that will be the ideal all other women in a man's life are compared to. Damn...how can I describe this...My last two years of undergrad, I focused primarily on Female Medieval Mystical Writers. I love how these women brought their faith into their bodies, and write from there...bringing god into themselves as a lover, a layer of skin, a wealt. I love their absolute
"The Hummingbird's Daughter" quickly made my list of 25 favorite books ever. Every one of the 20 years Luis Alberto Urrea spent on this story was worth it. There are few books I consider perfect, and this is one: Urrea deftly makes every word, comma, character nuance and plot twist seem straightforward and simple, yet there's so much going on here. He takes the barely sketched history of his aunt Teresita--the "Saint of Cabora" who helped inspire the Mexican revolution--and breathes life into a
Rating: an irritated single star.Someone needs to explain to me why this book is great. I don't think it's even good. It's The Song of Bernadette for the 21st century, written in prose as flat and featureless as the deserts it describes. In this it's no different from Franz Werfel's prose, at least as it is translated into English.I'm as irritated by the untreated mental illness of the young girl as I am by the author's celebration of it as Divine Revelation or whatever. Characters see the child
Certain authors excel at crafting gritty and realistic recreations of the world we live in; others are expert at transforming our world into a more magical and fantastical one. Luis Alberto Urrea, in an astounding feat of alchemy, does both. Within the novels sprawling 499 pages, his depiction of Teresita Urrea his real-life great-aunt, anointed the Saint of Cabora becomes increasingly intoxicating and unputdownable.In a sprawling yet controlled epic, we meet Teresita the illegitimate
Luis Alberto Urrea can read to me any time he wants to. Oy! What a voice and how well he reads. This book becomes magical with his voice. Although presented as a book of fiction, there is much truth told from 20-years of research and family tales of a distant relative who became known as the "Saint of Cabora." A story that mixes pre-revolutionary Mexico with folk tales and a touch of magic realism. A wonderful ride.
This is a very interesting story about a real woman who lived in Mexico in the late 19th century. She was the author's great-aunt, and he grew up hearing stories and legends about her. Beginning in 1985, the author began twenty years of research leading to this novel. Teresita was considered the "Saint of Cabora," although she did not think of herself in that way. She was born the bastard daughter of Don Tomas Urrea. At birth, she had a strange triangular mark on her forehead. The curandera said
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