Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0140292020
ISBN-13
9780140292022
Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint
Penguin Random House Australia
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 1st, 2000
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
241 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 12.90 x 1.70 cms
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Finalist for the National Book Award!In this beautifully wrought memoir, award-winning writer John Philip Santos weaves together dream fragments, family remembrances, and Chicano mythology, reaching back into time and place to blend the story of one Mexican family with the soul of an entire people. The story unfolds through a pageant of unforgettable family figures: from Madrina--touched with epilepsy and prophecy ever since, as a girl, she saw a dying soul leave its body--to Teofilo, who was kidnapped as an infant and raised by the Kikapu Indians of Northern Mexico. At the heart of the book is Santos'' search for the meaning of his grandfather''s suicide in San Antonio, Texas, in 1939. Part treasury of the elders, part elegy, part personal odyssey, this is an immigration tale and a haunting family story that offers a rich, magical view of Mexican-American culture.
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