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The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316745468
ISBN: 0316745464
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: May 17, 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Full of Magic and Beauty
This is an epic tale of a Mexican-Indian girl with healing powers (the Saint of Cabora) who lived on a ranch with her father. This novel is full of magical realism and beautiful writing. I enjoyed the wonderful dialog and the detailed characterization of Thomas Urrea (the father) and Teresa Urrea (the saintly daughter). I found the plot to be a bit wandering at times, but the reading experience was always enjoyable.
Rating:  - A modern classic
Among the many outstanding qualities of Luis Urrea's magnificent novel, The Hummingbird's Daughter, is that the story is substantially true. It is based on the historical record of his great aunt Teresa Urrea. The dialog and the personalities have been reconstructed, but anyone who cares to research the matter as I have will learn that the incredible life of the Hummingbird's daughter, Teresita Urrea, is accurately depicted.
Born out of wedlock to an illiterate Indian mother, she has no idea ... Read More
Rating: - A Strange Story Based in Fact
"The Hummingbird's Daughter" by Luis Alberto Urrea is a novel based in fact and incidents from his family's history. It tells the story of Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of Tomás Urrea, set in the large haciendas of northern Mexico in the late nineteenth century during the presidency of the dictator Porfirio Diaz.
Teresita is schooled by an old Mayo medicine woman, Huila, a curandera, a kind of female shaman, herbalist, mid-wife, and healer, who trains Teresa in these arts. Because ... Read More
Rating: - The Hummingbird's Daughter
Urrea's novelized story of his great aunt, the "Saint of Cabora, Teresita Urrea, is an incredible story of an incredible woman. Teresita came out of utter poverty to become an icon of faith for the Yaqi people, especially, but for all Mexican people as well. She endured abuse by her Aunt Tia, was brutally raped by a ranch hand, and nearly killed by her deranged husband (although that piece is NOT in the novel). Teresita became a rallying point, a Joan of Arc, without her overt participation in the Mexican ... Read More
Rating: - beautiful book
Gorgeous and poetic for large stretches; he describes all of Mexico in one brilliant passage about people drinking their morning coffee. Gets a little slow in the later chapters, but he's got a lot of story to tell. The lack of real resolution at the end is intentional - this is apparently only the first half of the saga. Stay tuned....
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