Alburquerque - Rudolfo Anaya

• 4 stele, bazat pe 1 voturi

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 marvelous 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 of The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel .

Alburquerque portrays a quest for knowledge.

It] is 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.