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Cargando... Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir (edición 2016)por Margarita Engle (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Having two different identities always makes you question your place in life. What is the right answer to a lifestyle that you think is okay but then get judged at by all the people around you? A memoir in verse about the author's childhood, growing up between two countries and two cultures: her American life in California, and her island life in Cuba - until the Missile Crisis and American travel to Cuba is sharply curtailed, if not impossible. Quotes Is there any way that two people from faraway places can ever really understand each other's daydreams? (37) If only I could just be myself, instead of half puzzle and half riddle. (49) Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe. (54) It really is possible to feel like two people at the same time, when your parents grandparents memories words come from two different worlds. (58) Some of the sights that Mami describes as dire poverty look like such luxurious wealth to a city girl who loves farms. (93) There's something about knowing the names and faces of nature's creations that helps me feel almost at home in my sharply divided shrinking world. (128) I feel like the last survivor of an ancient tribe, the only girl in the world who understands her language. (Solitary, 138) Right wing or left wing, tyrants always try to control communication. They always fail. (Secret Languages, 179) I feel like every creature on earth just might be mysteriously linked, as we wander from one place to another, constantly learning about one another's ways. (180) Speaking almost feels like having wings. (181) This is a beautiful memoir written by Margarita Engle about her life growing up half Cuban and half American. She shares stories of her childhood and growing up during the Cold War. Her poem-like writing style is easy to read and follow. She uses beautiful descriptive words to enhance the reader's view of what she went through. This would be a great read aloud for 5th graders, and a great read for intermediate and advanced students. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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En este poético libro de memorias—ganador del premio Pura Belpré de autor, finalista del premio de YALSA de no ficción y premio de honor Walter Dean Myers—la aclamada autora Margarita Engle recrea su infancia, que transcurrió a caballo entre dos culturas durante la Guerra Fría. Margarita es una niña de dos mundos. Su corazón está en Cuba, la isla tropical de su mamá, un sitio tan exuberante, de una vida tan intensa, que parece el reino de un cuento de hadas. Pero la mayor parte del tiempo, vive en Los Ángeles, sola en la bulliciosa ciudad, soñando con los veranos, en los que puede montarse en un avión y viajar por el aire encantado a su amada isla. Las palabras y las imágenes son compañeras constantes, amistosas y reconfortantes, mientras que los niños en la escuela no lo son. Entonces estalla una revolución en Cuba. Margarita teme por su familia lejana. Cuando la hostilidad entre Cuba y Estados Unidos se desata en la invasión de Bahía de Cochinos, los mundos de Margarita chocan de la peor manera posible. ¿Cómo es posible que los dos países que ella quiere se odien tanto mutuamente? ¿Y podrá volver a visitar su hermosa isla de nuevo? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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