A collectible hardcover 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling Chicano novel of all time, featuring a new foreword by Erika L. Sánchez, the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Although only six years old, Antonio Marez is perceptive beyond his years. He was brought into the world with the help of Ultima, a curandera, or folk healer, in touch with nature and the spirit world. Revered by some as a wisewoman but rebuked by others as a witch, Ultima has now come back to stay with Tony's family in New Mexico. As Tony seeks out his destiny--torn between his mother's farming forebears and his father's wandering vaquero roots, between Spanish Catholicism and the gods of his indigenous ancestors--Ultima's loving tutelage will help him navigate questions of life and death, good and evil, and reveal to him the vastness of the heritage that shapes him, in this pioneering work of literature.
Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life"--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
作者简介
鲁道夫-安纳亚(1937-2020)是新墨西哥州的小说家和散文家,也是现代奇卡克斯文学的创始者之一。他是新墨西哥大学的教授,也是墨西哥黑人声音的终身倡导者,致力于支持有抱负的作家,他获得了许多文学奖项,包括巴拉克颁发的国家人文奖,Premio Quinto Sol国家墨西哥文学奖,新墨西哥人奖,以及美国西部笔会小说奖。他的处女作《祝福我,Ultima》被美国公共广播公司命名为 "美国大阅读",并被改编为一部故事片、一部歌剧和几部舞台剧。
Erika L. Sánchez(前言)是《纽约时报》的畅销书作者,其作品包括国家图书奖入围作品《我不是你理想的墨西哥女儿》、诗集《驱逐的教训》和回忆录中的散文《在浴室里哭泣》。她住在芝加哥,是德保罗大学Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz的拉丁美洲和拉丁裔研究主席。
Rudolfo Anaya (1937-2020) was a New Mexican novelist and essayist, and one of the founding voices in modern Chicanx literature. A professor at the University of New Mexico and a lifelong champion of Chicanx voices who devoted himself to supporting aspiring writers, he received many literary awards, including the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama, the Premio Quinto Sol National Chicano literary award, the Notable New Mexican Award, and the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction. His debut novel, Bless Me, Ultima, was named a Great American Read by PBS, and has been adapted into a feature film, an opera, and several stage plays.
Erika L. Sánchez (foreword) is the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, the poetry collection Lessons on Expulsion, and the memoir-in-essays Crying in the Bathroom. She lives in Chicago, where she is the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz chair of Latin American and Latino studies at DePaul University.
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