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Luis Alberto Urrea

    1 de enero de 1955

    Luis Alberto Urrea explora magistralmente los temas de las fronteras, la inmigración y la búsqueda de amor y pertenencia, basándose profundamente en su propia experiencia bicultural. Su escritura ofrece profundas perspectivas sobre la condición humana y la búsqueda de identidad en un mundo en constante cambio. La voz distintiva de Urrea brilla a través de sus poderosas imágenes y su profunda empatía por sus personajes. Captura las complejidades de la vida en los márgenes con una prosa vívida y una honestidad inquebrantable.

    Luis Alberto Urrea
    Queen of America
    Good Night, Irene
    The Devil's Highway
    Into the Beautiful North
    The Hummingbird's Daughter
    The House of Broken Angels
    • Good Night, Irene

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman's heroic frontline service in the Red Cross

      Good Night, Irene2023
      4,1
    • The House of Broken Angels

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      In this 'raucous, moving, and necessary' (San Francisco Chronicle) story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the de La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend

      The House of Broken Angels2020
      4,4
    • Queen of America

      • 491 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      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 America2011
      4,0
    • Into the Beautiful North

      A Novel

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own "Siete Magnificos"--to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over. Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH is the story of an irresistible young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.

      Into the Beautiful North2010
      3,9
    • The Hummingbird's Daughter

      • 512 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      An epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late nineteenth- century Mexico

      The Hummingbird's Daughter2005
      4,2
    • The Devil's Highway

      • 272 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      The author of Across the Wire offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out.

      The Devil's Highway2004
      4,1