The Hummingbird's Daughter
of Luis Alberto Urrea (Goodreads Author)
Series: The Hummingbird's Daughter
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 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.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 528 pages
- Publisher Back Bay Books
- Publication Date April 3rd 2006
- First Publication 05/17/05
- Language English
- ISBN 9780316154529
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Mexico']
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