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Luis Alberto Urrea

    1. Jänner 1955

    Luis Alberto Urrea erforscht meisterhaft die Themen von Grenzen, Einwanderung und der Suche nach Liebe und Zugehörigkeit, wobei er tief aus seiner eigenen bikulturellen Erfahrung schöpft. Sein Schreiben bietet tiefgründige Einblicke in die menschliche Verfassung und die Suche nach Identität in einer sich ständig verändernden Welt. Urreas unverwechselbare Stimme glänzt durch seine kraftvollen Bilder und sein tiefes Einfühlungsvermögen für seine Charaktere. Er erfasst die Komplexität des Lebens am Rande mit lebendiger Prosa und unerschrockener Ehrlichkeit.

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

      • 432 Seiten
      • 16 Lesestunden

      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 Seiten
      • 12 Lesestunden

      'Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining' New York Times'All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.'In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de la Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life.Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighbourhood, the revellers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank.

      The House of Broken Angels2019
      4,4
    • Queen of America

      • 491 Seiten
      • 18 Lesestunden

      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 Seiten
      • 14 Lesestunden

      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
    • La hija de la esperanza

      • 544 Seiten
      • 20 Lesestunden

      Teresita no es una chica normal. Hija de una india analfabeta y pobre, apenas conoce nada de su pasado ni de su futuro. No tiene ni idea de que su padre es don Tomás Urrea, el rico y salvaje propietario de un enorme rancho en el estado mexicano de Sinaloa. No tiene ni idea de que Hulia, la anciana curandera que la toma bajo su protección, conoce los secretos de su destino. Y no tiene ni idea de que muy pronto México estallará en una revolución y gritará su nombre...

      La hija de la esperanza2007
    • Von den Grenzen der Freiheit und der Macht der Wunder. Von ihrem Volk wird Teresa als Heilerin verehrt, doch ihr Vater, ein weißer Patron, versucht, eine Dame aus ihr zu machen. Aufgewachsen in bitterer Armut, interessiert sie sich nur für seine Bibliothek. Bis ihr wie durch ein Wunder ein zweites Leben geschenkt wird – und sie zu kämpfen beschließt: Gegen die Unterdrückung und für ihre Liebe zum Leben. Der Bestseller aus den USA: Ein magischer Roman von großer emotionaler Wucht.

      Kolibris Tochter2005
      4,2
    • The Devil's Highway

      • 272 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden

      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