Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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Language
English
Description
A mesmerizing debut set against the backdrop of the devastating violence of 1990's Colombia about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both. Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug...
Author
Language
English
Description
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"When women of color write history, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swept up by this story." --SANDRA CISNEROS, author of The House on Mango Street A mesmerizing debut set against the backdrop of the devastating violence of 1990's Colombia about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanõl, una divisioń de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
La autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscoṕica que recupera el legado miśtico de su familia. A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una ninã faćil de sorprender: crecio ́en medio de la violencia polit́ica de los anõs ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que veniá a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero...
