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Nayeli es una chica de diecinueve anos que trabaja en una taqueria
de tres Camarones, un poblado mexicano. Ve en suenos a su padre,
que emigro al norte cuando era nina. Recientemente se ha dado
cuenta de que su padre no es el unico hombre que se ha ido del
pueblo, de hecho ya casi no quedan hombres, todos se han ido al
otro lado, a los Estados Unidos. Un grupo de narcotraficantes
tambien se ha percatado de ese hecho y ven la oportunidad para
apoderarse. Pero una noche, durante la exhibicion de la pelicula
"Los Siete Magnificos," Nayeli tiene una revelacion: Debe dirigirse
al norte a reclutar sus propios Siete Magnificos, para que la
protejan de los criminales y coadyuven a repoblar Tres Camarones.
Ella y sus amigas viajan al norte y en el camino hacia esa extrana
y fascinante tierra de sus suenos, ese mitico lugar donde su padre
desaparecio, van sumando una coleccion de inusitados y
sorprendentes aliados. La meta es un poblado del estado de
Illinois, donde Nayeli espera encontrar a su padre y reclutar a sus
guerreros. Con suerte, hara realidad tambien su destino. ""
From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a new story
collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto
Urrea has been called "wickedly good" (Kansas City Star),
"cinematic and charged" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), and "studded with
delights" (Chicago Tribune). Examining the borders between one
nation and another, between one person and another, Urrea reveals
his mastery of the short form. This collection includes the
Edgar-award winning "Amapola" and his now-classic "Bid Farewell to
Her Many Horses," which had the honor of being chosen for NPR's
"Selected Shorts" not once but twice. Suffused with wanderlust,
compassion, and no small amount of rock and roll, THE WATER MUSEUM
is a collection that confirms Luis Alberto Urrea as an American
master.
At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously
funny, QUEEN OF AMERICA tells the unforgettable story of a young
woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning
where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling "The Hummingbird's Daughter
"left off, QUEEN OF AMERICA finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved
healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But,
besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and
pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands
and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of
turn-of-the-century America.
Teresita's passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and
St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets,
beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons-and, among
them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the
ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love?
"All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it.
Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing
patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel,
has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party.
But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies
herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader in a single weekend.
Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little
Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a
father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a
life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood,
the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the
lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many
inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both
ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and
sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have
come to call home. The story of the de La Cruzes is the
quintessential American story. This indelible portrait of a complex
family reminds us of what it means to be the first generation and
to live two lives across one border. It takes us into a world we
have not known, while reflecting back the hopes and dreams of our
own families. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every
turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best,
and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank.
An Instant New York Times Bestseller This "powerful, uplifting, and
deeply personal novel" (Kristin Hannah, #1 NYT bestselling author
of The Four Winds), at once "a heart-wrenching wartime drama"
(Christina Baker Kline, #1 NYT bestselling author of Orphan Train)
and "a moving and graceful tribute to heroic women" (Publishers
Weekly, starred review), asks the question: What if a friendship
forged on the front lines of war defines a life forever? "Urrea's
touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a
generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the
broader sense of what he feels necessary to capture about life
itself." -Financial Times In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an
abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head
to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford,
a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are
part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who
command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line,
providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only
solace before troops head into battle. After D-Day, these two
intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France.
Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger, from the
Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her
friendship with Dorothy, and a love affair with a courageous
American fighter pilot named Hans, Irene learns to trust again. Her
most fervent hope, which becomes more precarious by the day, is for
all three of them to survive the war intact. Taking as inspiration
his mother's own Red Cross service, Luis Alberto Urrea has
delivered an overlooked story of women's heroism in World War II.
With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valour
in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully
demonstrates yet again that Urrea's "gifts as a storyteller are
prodigious" (NPR).
A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the
bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward
Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert
Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire
environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and
fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the
writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the
writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of
critics to sum up "what he really meant and whether any of it was
truly up to snuff." The Red Caddy is the first literary biography
of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru,
Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible
for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire
paradoxically "launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground"
that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation
and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books.
Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around
Abbey's writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges
while seeking "anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the
True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck." Asserting that the real
essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red
Caddy still catches gleams of "the fire that from time to time
causes a life to become a conflagration."
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 isn't the only
man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the
village--they've all gone north. While watching "The Magnificent
Seven, "Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven
men--her own "Siete Magnificos"--to repopulate her hometown and
protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over.
Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the
Sinaloan sun, Into the Beautiful North is the story of an
irresistible young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of
the fence."
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican
village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to
find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only
man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the
village--they've all gone north. While watching "The Magnificent
Seven, "Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven
men--her own "Siete Magnificos"--to repopulate her hometown and
protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over.
Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the
Sinaloan sun, INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH is the story of an
irresistible young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of
the fence."
'Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining' New York Times
'All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it.
Not borders. Not death.' In his final days, beloved and ailing
patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel,
has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party.
But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies,
transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the
guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must
reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his
siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two
bittersweet days in their San Diego neighbourhood, the revellers
mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big
Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that
have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic
that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and
allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.
Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The
House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and
cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank.
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.
It is 1889. Civil war is brewing in Mexico, and sixteen-year-old Teresita has just woken 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 the story of a girl and a country grappling with their destiny. Two decades in the writing, the result is an epic, dazzling novel of love and loss, joy and sacrifice.
From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a new story
collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto
Urrea has been called "wickedly good" (Kansas City Star),
"cinematic and charged" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), and "studded with
delights" (Chicago Tribune). Examining the borders between one
nation and another, between one person and another, Urrea reveals
his mastery of the short form. This collection includes the
Edgar-award winning "Amapola" and his now-classic "Bid Farewell to
Her Many Horses," which had the honor of being chosen for NPR's
"Selected Shorts" not once but twice. Suffused with wanderlust,
compassion, and no small amount of rock and roll, THE WATER MUSEUM
is a collection that confirms Luis Alberto Urrea as an American
master.
Los milagros y las pasiones abundan en esta novela fascinante que
ha sido aclamada como obra maestra. Es la historia de una joven
Mexicana cuyas facultades para curar a los aflijidos le prestan
aura de santa. Ella llega a realizar su destino sorprendiente entre
las llamas de una revolucion naciente...mientras el pueblo se
levanta, gritando su nombre.
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