Sökt på: Luis A. Urrea
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Rudolfo Anaya: Bless Me, Ultima, Tortuga, Alburquerque
Rediscover Rudolfo Anaya: mythmaker, master storyteller, American original "The godfather and guru of Chicano literature." --Tony Hillerman A writer powerfully attuned to the land …
The Hummingbird's Daughter
This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records …
By the Lake of Sleeping Children
By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists,and relief workers, fearsome …
Underground America
They arrive from around the world for countless reasons. Many come simply to make a living. Others are fleeing persecution in their native countries. Millions of immigrants risk …
Growing Up Chicago
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book collects work by writers …
Wandering Time
Fleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, Luis Alberto Urrea jumped into his car several years ago and headed west. Driving cross-country with a cat named Rest …
Etnicidad, acción colectiva y resistencia
La región del norte del Cauca y sur del Valle (Colombia) ha sido en los últimos cincuenta años, un laboratorio del conflicto social que ha transformado no solamente su economía, …
La Casa de Los Angeles Rotos
The Hummingbird's Daughter
'Extraordinary . . . deeply felt and beautifully told' ObserverIt is 1889. Civil war is brewing in Mexico, and sixteen-year-old Teresita has just woken from the strangest dream - a …
Tijuana Book of the Dead
From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devils Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbirds Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. …
Into The Beautiful North
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he …