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Alburquerque Rudolfo Anaya

Alburquerque By Rudolfo Anaya

Alburquerque by Rudolfo Anaya

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Abran Gonzalez is a homeboy from the barrio, a young boxer whose world is shattered forever the night he is summoned to his mother's deathbed. He learns he is the son of an unknown Mexican man - a man he is desperately compelled to find. His quest will bring him in contact with many unpleasant characters.

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Alburquerque: A Novel by Rudolfo Anaya

This book is a winner of PEN Center West Award for Fiction. Abran Gonzalez is a homeboy from the barrio, a young boxer whose world is shattered forever the night he is summoned to his mother's deathbed. He learns he is the son of an unknown Mexican man - a man he is desperately compelled to find. His quest will bring him in contact with many unpleasant characters.

Alburquerque Reviews

'Alburquerque' is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family... There is a marvellous tapestry of interwoven myth and magic that guides Anaya's characters' sensibilities, and is equally important in defining their feel of place. Above all, in this novel is a deep caring for land and culture and for the spiritual well-being of people, environment, landscape. -- John Nichols, author. ...'Alburquerque' portrays a quest for knowledge... a novel about many cultures intersecting at an urban, power-, and politics-filled crossroads, represented by a powerful white businessman, whose mother just happens to be a Jew who has hidden her Jewishness... and a boy from the barrio who fathers a child raised in the barrio but who eventually goes on to a triumphant assertion of his cross-cultural self. -- 'World Literature Today'. 'Alburquerque' fulfills two important functions: it restores the missing R to the name of the city, and it shows off Anaya's powers as a novelist. -- Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio. 'Alburquerque' is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family. -- John Nichols, author of 'The Milagro Beanfield War'.

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CIN0826340598G
9780826340597
0826340598
Alburquerque: A Novel by Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya
Used - Good
Paperback
University of New Mexico Press
20060201
280
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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