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Luis Alberto Urrea
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The Hummingbird's Daughter |
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English |
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Paperback |
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499 |
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2006-04-03 |
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0316154520 |
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Back Bay Books |
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1.05 pounds |
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1.25 x 5.5 x 8.25 inches |
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Product Description
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 civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16-year-old girl, 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 death with a 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.
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Marie (USA: TX) (2008/01/12):
Wonderful book best I have read in awhile -- Great story, great wrting what more could you ask for?
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