Tan Lejos de Dios

Name: Tan Lejos de Dios
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ana Castillo
ISBN: 9781436162180

Author: Ana Castillo

Narrator: Gy Mirano

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/14/2008

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, History, Modern History, En Espanol

Synopsis

Tome es un pueblito pequeno y aparentemente apacible en Nuevo Mexico central. En las habiles manos de Ana Castillo este asombroso lugar se nos revela como un sitio de maravillas, lleno de vida y conflictos: del pasado con el presente, lo real con lo sobrenatural, lo comico con lo horrifico, las tradiciones nativas con lo latino y lo "anglo," las mujeres con los hombres. Con voz intima y locuaz, con la libertad narrativa de una Cervantes del suroeste norteamericano, Castillo relata la historia de dos decadas atestadas en la vida de una familia chicana.

About Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator, and scholar. Born and raised in Chicago, her award winning, bestselling titles include the novels So Far from God, The Guardians, Peel My Love like an Onion, and Sapogonia, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and the poetry collection I Ask the Impossible. She has received numerous awards, including the 2018 PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award, the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement, and was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jen

I loved this book. It's kind of magical realism for the North American feminist. Growing up in a catholic feminist family with my mom and 3 sisters and a dad who was there -- but not so much -- the story felt like a dramatic and whimsical telling of themes I've lived. Like Ana Castillo, I've lived i......more

Goodreads review by el

so far from god scratches all of my magical realist itches, particularly the strain of magical realism that is unique to xicana writers: matriarchs, medicine/brujería, food as a love language, and the sort of southwestern tongue born of borderland living. and yet, it fell short of my expectations in......more

Goodreads review by Agnė

WHAT IT IS ABOUT: “So Far From God” by Ana Castillo is a peculiar magical realism novel set in a small village of Tome in New Mexico. Abandoned by her gambling husband, Sofia single-handedly raises four daughters: Esperanza, an ambitious news reporter; Fe, a jilted bride suffering from a nervous brea......more