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Deze saga duikt in de rijke geschiedenis en mythologie van Noord-Mexico, en volgt de lotgevallen van drie generaties vrouwen. Centraal staat een buitengewoon meisje dat een legendarische genezeres wordt, haar leven verweven met magische gebeurtenissen en diep menselijke relaties. Het verhaal verkent de kracht van familie, spiritualiteit en overleving tegenover formidabele tegenslagen. Het is een verhaal over transformatie, traditie en het vinden van je eigen stem binnen een onderling verbonden wereld.

The Hummingbird´s Daughter
Queen of America

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  • Queen of America

    • 491bladzijden
    • 18 uur lezen
    4,0(1502)Tarief

    At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny, Queen of America tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world.Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America.Teresita's passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons -- and, among them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate is a saint allowed to fall in love?

    Queen of America

  • The Hummingbird´s Daughter

    • 528bladzijden
    • 19 uur lezen
    4,2(11962)Tarief

    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.

    The Hummingbird´s Daughter