Queen of America
A Novel
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2011
نویسنده
Luís Alberto Urreaناشر
Hachette Book Groupشابک
9781611133097
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
- دیدگاه کاربران
نقد و بررسی
September 12, 2011
The historical Teresita Urrea, the “Saint of Cabora,” flees Mexico with her father after the Tomóchic rebellion of 1891, in Urrea’s sequel to the bestselling The Hummingbird’s Daughter. Pursued by assassins, the Urreas seek sanctuary in rural Arizona. Teresita’s father drinks heavily and refuses to accept the charity of pilgrims who’ve come to follow Teresita; the Urreas travel to Tucson, meeting the Von Order brothers, John and Harry. Teresita feels an immediate attraction to Harry, despite her burgeoning saintly powers. Father and daughter then move on to El Paso, where Teresita reluctantly takes a job as a journalist. She falls in love with a man and once again her saintliness conflicts with her romantic desires. She has a brief, unhappy marriage before finding redemption through the first of her many healings. This new chapter of her life leads her to San Francisco and then New York, where a sinister consortium exploits her abilities, working her nine to five and forcing her to choose between the saintly grace and simplicity of her old life and the modern trappings of fame, fortune, and romantic love. Despite a trundling life-story narrative that at times loses focus, and several flat passages, Urrea delivers a rich mix of Wild West and magic realism.
In the sequel to his bestselling novel THE HUMMINGBIRD'S DAUGHTER, author and narrator Luis Alberto Urrea offers another enjoyable performance. The story centers around Urrea's great aunt, Teresita, dubbed the Saint of Cabora, who narrowly escapes her enemies in Mexico. Once she's in the U.S., her life becomes fraught with more turmoil, forcing her to flee Arizona for California, where she hopes to be left in peace to continue her healing practices. Urrea's narration is engrossing. Without fuss or flash, he brings credibility to Teresita; her father, Tom‡s; and her brutish husband, Rodriguez, as well as to dozens of secondary characters, each of whom takes on a life of his own. This latest episode in Urrea's family saga offers an irresistible blend of history, mysticism, and humanity. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
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