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Cargando... The Hummingbird's Daughter (2005 original; edición 2006)por Luis Alberto Urrea (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book had me weeping more than once. The incredibly moving story of Teresa Urrea, The Hummingbird's Daughter, is based on a true historical figure who inspired a Mexican revolution, and who also happens to be a distant relation of the author, Luis Alberto Urrea. The first sections describe in realistic detail the impoverished childhood of a mixed-race girl, bastard daughter of a landowner and an Indian worker who abandons her child. However, the girl receives wealth beyond gold when she is taken in by a gifted medicine woman. When Teresa's own powers bloom, she astonishes everyone around her. A gripping tale of a truly good person facing down the evil of our world. Teresita grows up on the rancho of Don Tomás in Sinaloa. Intelligent and inquisitive, she gains the attention of Huila, the curandera of the rancho who recognizes the faint gift of healing within the girl and begins her training. As her gift grows, Teresita becomes known as something of a saint to the people of the rancho and the surroundings towns as well as to the indians--much to the alarm of General Porfirio Díaz who wants to wrestle control of the land from the indians. This is a remarkable story about one woman's belief in her own abilities and her sense to do what is right even when it goes contrary to the desires of an entire government. It's rich in detail and filled with wonderful and unique characters. And what makes the story even more intriguing is that Teresita is based on an actual person--who was an ancestor of the author. I definitely recommend reading this book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is declared a saint and finds her faith tested by the impending Mexican civil war.
Es 1889, y la guerra civil esta? elaborando cerveza en Me?xico. Una muchacha de 16 an?os, hija ilegi?tima pero querida de Teresita, del ranchero rico y de gran alcance pone a Tomas Urrea, estelas del suen?o ma?s extran?o--un suen?o que ella ha muerto. Solamente no era un suen?o. Esta mujer joven apasionada y rebellious se ha presentado de muerte con una energi?a de curar--pero tomara? toda su fe para aguantar los ensayos que aguardan a su y su familia ahora que ella ha hecho el Santo de Cabora. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Despite it all, Teresa proves to be a strong, smart, and courageous person who is noticed by both Huila, an indigenous medicine woman, and Don Tomas, the wealthy Mexican landowner who turns out to be her father. Under their tutelage, Teresa learns to be a talented midwife and healer for the People who inhabit the environs of her father’s Sonoran ranch. When a violent event leads to her apparent death, Teresa stuns everyone by returning to life, but transformed with miraculous, new-found powers. She soon develops a large following among the dispossessed and forgotten citizens of the region, who consider her to be a messenger of God and take to calling her ‘Santa Teresita’. This status as a holy hero of the People threatens the existing power structure (i.e., the Church, the dictator Porfirio Diaz), who quickly plot Teresita’s demise.
The Hummingbird’s Daughter tells Teresita’s true-life story, from her humble birth to her rise to common sainthood to her eventual exile from her homeland. Author Luis Alberto Urrea, a distant relative of the real Santa Teresita, spent years of meticulous research constructing the record of his great-aunt’s history and that attention to detail shows up on every page of the novel. Indeed, Urrea has managed the improbable: he has blown life into a small, but significant, event that would otherwise be lost to the ages and given the reader a moving and compelling fictional experience. He writes with compassion, humor, and insight that combines the picaresque style of Larry McMurtry’s The Lonesome Dove with the familial and political narratives of Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits, with the additional bonus of being a true tale. This is historical fiction at its finest and it is a book that I can recommend without hesitation. ( )