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Key ideas from the book
- The novel examines how family, roots, and identity shape a person’s sense of self.
- It portrays a city as a crossroads where different cultures and forms of power intersect.
- Myth and magic contribute to the characters’ understanding of place.
- The story connects care for land and culture with people’s spiritual well-being.
- A boy from the barrio comes to assert a cross-cultural identity.
About Alburquerque by Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya’s Alburquerque brings together questions of roots, identity, family, and politics in a city shaped by intersecting cultures. Myth and magic inform the characters’ sense of place, while the novel attends to the connections between land, culture, and people’s spiritual well-being.
The story includes a boy from the barrio whose child is raised there and later asserts a cross-cultural identity, alongside a powerful white businessman whose mother has concealed her Jewish heritage. Published by UNM Press in 2006, this novel will interest readers of magical realism and literary fiction, as well as those drawn to stories about cultural identity and the political life of a city.
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