num_pages: 512
description: 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.
language: English
title: Hummingbird's Daughter
titlecomplete: Hummingbird's Daughter
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Latin American, Religion, Historical, Adult, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 13079
places: Mexico
series: The Hummingbird's Daughter
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Turnaround