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Original Title:	The Hummingbird's Daughter
ISBN:	0316154520 (ISBN13: 9780316154529)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Hummingbird's Daughter
Setting:	Mexico
Literary Awards:	Kiriyama Prize for Fiction (2006)

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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 the civil war is brewing in Mexico. Sixteen year old 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 the dead with the 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.

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Title	:	The Hummingbird's Daughter (The Hummingbird's Daughter)
Author	:	Luis Alberto Urrea
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	April 3rd 2006 by Back Bay Books (first published May 17th 2005)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Magical Realism

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"The world of reason must be a lonely place." This is a historical novel mixed with a generous dose of magical realism. Luis Alberto Urrea's imaginative telling of Teresita's life and the colorful characters who surrounded her seeped into my dreams. I have lived and traveled throughout Mexico and studied the nuances of Mexican Spanish which made this book especially vivid.

This review has been revised on completion. Teresita, the Hummingbird's daughter, existed. She is an acknowledged saint. In this book you learn about her life in Mexico, until she was forced to leave at the age of 19. You learn about Mexico (food, lifestyle, religious beliefs and customs) and about the Mexican Civil War that took place in the last decade of the 1800s. You learn about her role in this war. Teresita was a distant cousin to the author. Although based on known fact, it is a novel.

I first became fascinated by the Mexican healer Teresita Urrea when I heard a UTEP professor give a brief profile of her life. She recommended this novel, written by a descendant, and it's one of the most beautiful, fascinating, compelling books I've ever read. The plot covers her early life up through her exile to the U.S. It's an epic--nearly 500 pages long and frankly, I'd have been happy if it had gone on several hundred more.

This is one of the finest works of fiction I have ever read. Mr. Urrea is an extraordinary story teller, and the Hummingbird's Daughter is an extraordinary story. This book is sometimes horrifying, sometimes hilarious, but beautifully written and utterly captivating. Five stars.

Luis Alberto Urrea can read to me any time he wants to. Oy! What a voice and how well he reads. This book becomes magical with his voice. Although presented as a book of fiction, there is much truth told from 20-years of research and family tales of a distant relative who became known as the "Saint of Cabora." A story that mixes pre-revolutionary Mexico with folk tales and a touch of magic realism. A wonderful ride.

First read Luis Alberto Urreas Hummingbirds Daughter nearly 13 years ago. It is still incredible! Something about Urreas ability to evoke the landscape and capture a mood really drew me into this story. The mix of the lyrical and the historical evokes the political and social upheaval of the period. And then there is Urreas writing style. Maybe its just me, but when I read magic realism I think revolution. It is also super interesting to me that Urrea took stories about a distant family member,

This is a marvellous book that I would recommend to everyone who:Is a fan of Magical RealismIs interested in Mexican HistoryIs intrigued by Catholic sainthood and Wants to learn about curanderas (healers or medicine women)Although parts of it, like descriptions of the extreme poverty, are very difficult to read, there is so much beauty in the book to balance it out. This compelling novel is based on the real life person Teresa Urrea, who was the great aunt of the author Luis Alberto Urrea. Urrea