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The Hummingbird's Daughter

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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.

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Back Bay Books
0316154520 / 9780316154529
Paperback / softback
03/04/2006
United States
528 pages
140 x 210 mm, 530 grams