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Mother Tongue
ISBN: 9780345416568 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "It is a great beauty of a book, and I am so proud of you for standing with and for the disappeared. A sister, a lover, a witness."
--Alice Walker Mary is nineteen and living alone in Albuquerque. Adrift in the wake of her mother's death, she longs for something meaningful to take her over. Then Jose Luis enters her life. A refugee from El Salvador and its bloody civil war, Jose has been smuggled to the United States as part of the sanctuary movement. Mary cannot help but fall in love with the movement and the man. And little by little, she begins to reveal to Jose Luis the part of... "It is a great beauty of a book, and I am so proud of you for standing with and for the disappeared. A sister, a lover, a witness."
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Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana
ISBN: 9780806137223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "We're everywhere, and it's time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spanish in Ten Minutes a Day while You Nap. . . . We grew up listening to the language--usually in the kitchens of extended family--but we answered back mostly in English." Demetria Martinez wields her trademark blend of humor and irony to give voice to her own "tongue-tied generation" in this notable series of essays, revealing her deeply personal views of the world. Martinez breaks down the barriers between prayer and action, between the... "We're everywhere, and it's time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spani... |
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Block Captain's Daughter
ISBN: 9780806142913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Guadalupe Anaya, a waitress, is pregnant. She is also the newly elected block captain of Sunflower Street, in charge of raising awareness of safety in her southeast Albuquerque neighborhood. Her campaign platform: God helps those who help themselves. While she waits for the baby, Lupe writes letters to her unborn child, whom she names Destiny. It is Lupe s dream that her daughter will be a writer, pushing a pen instead of a broom.
In this highly imaginative work of fiction by the acclaimed author of Mother Tongue, Demetria Martinez weaves a portrait of six unforgettable characters,... Guadalupe Anaya, a waitress, is pregnant. She is also the newly elected block captain of Sunflower Street, in charge of raising awareness of safety in...
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The Devil's Workshop: Poems
ISBN: 9780816521975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "I can no more describe love," writes Demetria Martinez, "than mystics can light."
Don't believe it for a minute. In this collection of fifty-three poems, the author of the award-winning novel Mother Tongue explores the themes that have long characterized her writing: the creative and destructive powers of romantic love, the failure of political systems, the spiritual life, and the need to forgive oneself in order to move on with the work of transformation, both social and personal. Through poems that confront mortality even as they demand social justice, Martinez writes of... "I can no more describe love," writes Demetria Martinez, "than mystics can light."
Don't believe it for a minute. In this collection of fi... |
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Breathing Between the Lines: Poems
ISBN: 9780816517985 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 61 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Demetria Martinez has entered the public consciousness by way of the heart. In 1994, she captured a Western States Book Award with her first novel, Mother Tongue, which went on to win widespread national attention. Now, in Breathing between the Lines, the writer returns to poetry, her first love. Many of the poems in this book touch on the themes from Mother Tongue, about an American activist who falls in love with a Salvadoran political refugee. Weaving together threads of love and family, social conviction and activism, loss and renewal, Breathing between...
Demetria Martinez has entered the public consciousness by way of the heart. In 1994, she captured a Western States Book Award with her first no...
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