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Alburquerque

A Novel
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This book is a winner of PEN Center West Award for Fiction. Abran Gonzalez is a homeboy from the barrio, a young boxer whose world is shattered forever the night he is summoned to his mother's deathbed. He learns he is the son of an unknown Mexican man - a man he is desperately compelled to find. His quest will bring him in contact with many unpleasant characters.
Rudolfo Anaya is the acclaimed author of Bless Me, Ultima and many other books.
'""Alburquerque' is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family... There is a marvellous tapestry of interwoven myth and magic that guides Anaya's characters' sensibilities, and is equally important in defining their feel of place. Above all, in this novel is a deep caring for land and culture and for the spiritual well-being of people, environment, landscape."" -- John Nichols, author. ""...'Alburquerque' portrays a quest for knowledge... a novel about many cultures intersecting at an urban, power-, and politics-filled crossroads, represented by a powerful white businessman, whose mother just happens to be a Jew who has hidden her Jewishness... and a boy from the barrio who fathers a child raised in the barrio but who eventually goes on to a triumphant assertion of his cross-cultural self."" -- 'World Literature Today'. ""'Alburquerque' fulfills two important functions: it restores the missing R to the name of the city, and it shows off Anaya's powers as a novelist."" -- Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio. ""'Alburquerque' is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family."" -- John Nichols, author of 'The Milagro Beanfield War'.
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