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| Publisher: | Little, Brown |
| Genres: | Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism |
| Authors: | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| Pages: | 528 pages |
| ISBN10: | 0316154520 |
| ISBN13: | 9780316154529 |
| Tags: | Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism Books, Free Download, PDF Download |
| Language: | en |
| Physical Form: | PDF Book |
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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 civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16-year-old girl, 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 death with a 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.
