The Madonnas of Echo Park (平装)
分類: 图书,进口原版书,Literature & Fiction（文学与虚构类）,Genre Fiction（类型小说）,
品牌: Brando Skyhorse
基本信息出版社:FREE PR (2011年3月8日)平装:224页正文语种:英语ISBN:1439170843条形码:9781439170847ASIN:1439170843
商品描述内容简介We slipped into this country like thieves, onto the land that once was ours.With these words, spoken by an illegal Mexican day laborer,The Madonnas of Echo Parktakes us into the unseen world of Los Angeles, following the men and women who cook the meals, clean the homes, and struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream.When a dozen or so girls and mothers gather on an Echo Park street corner to act out a scene from a Madonna music video, they find themselves caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting. In the aftermath, Aurora Esperanza grows distant from her mother, Felicia, who as a housekeeper in the Hollywood Hills establishes a unique relationship with a detached housewife.The Esperanzas’ shifting lives connect with those of various members of their neighborhood. A day laborer trolls the streets for work with men half his age and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; a religious hypocrite gets her comeuppance when she meets the Virgin Mary at a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard; a typical bus route turns violent when cultures and egos collide in the night, with devastating results; and Aurora goes on a journey through her gentrified childhood neighborhood in a quest to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican Americans dream of, "the land that belongs to us again."Like the Academy Award–winning filmCrash,The Madonnas of Echo Parkfollows the intersections of its characters and cultures in Los Angeles. In the footsteps of Junot Díaz and Sherman Alexie, Brando Skyhorse in his debut novel gives voice to one neighborhood in Los Angeles with an astonishing— and unforgettable—lyrical power.媒体推荐#1 Bestseller, The Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver
"Skyhorse is at his best when exploring the changing world of Echo Park...His careful attention to detail, to a rich past of a place that served as home to Mexican Americans already once displaced from Chavez Ravine, is thoroughly researched and executed-- no easy feat while juggling multiple characters and timeframes...the focus on Mexican American characters is admirable." —The Los Angeles Times
"Skyhorse's stunning debut about Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles—reminiscent of books by Gloria Naylor, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Kazuo Ishiguro—is a powerful novel about the loneliness and interconnectedness of its characters." —Tova Beiser, Brown University Bookstore
"To embrace a community, to capture its fabric, to syncopate its rhythms, lives, views and experiences is a difficult feat. But Brando Skyhorse manages to do just that with his breathtaking and, at times, soul-churning novel...Skyhorse [finds] breadth and diversity in Echo Park...Stories zigzag through the book, introducing lives unique and full, bisecting one another at times, standing at solitary edges at others...we are carried away by this intricately crafted tale. Taken together, the tales spin around the axis of a few streets yet splinter off into infinite dimensions." —Chattanooga Times Free Press
