The Flower in the Skull
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品牌: Kathleen Alcala
基本信息出版社:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001年2月1日)平装:180页正文语种:英语ISBN:0156006340条形码:9780156006347商品尺寸:19.9 x 13.3 x 1 cm商品重量:181 g品牌:Mariner BooksASIN:0156006340商品描述内容简介Deep in the Sonoran Desert of Mexico in the 1870s, a village of Opata Indians is attacked by soldiers. Along with the rest of her tribe, Concha is driven from her homeland and eventually finds her way to Tucson, where she finds a job cleaning houses and caring for children. When her own daughter, Rosa, is born, the legacy of Concha's dislocation continues, as Rosa is raised far from her native culture and struggles to find her place in a strange world. As she did in her acclaimed, award-winning novel, Spirits of the Ordinary, Kathleen Alcal takes on the complexities of cultural heritage, identity, and assimilation, and explores the mysterious nature of place, spiritualism, and faith in the lives of these extraordinary ordinary people.媒体推荐Starting where her Spirits of the Ordinary ended, near the time of the Mexican Revolution, the disappointing second volume of Alcal 's projected trilogy chronicles three generations of women descended from the Opata, a vanished Indian tribe from the Sonoran desert of Mexico. Separated from her family when Apaches and Mexican soldiers drive the Opata from their villages, young Shark Tooth begins a new life as a maid in Tucson, where she is renamed Concha. The Opata's strong sense of history lives on in Concha; her daughter, Rosa; and her granddaughter, Shelly, a present-day Angele?a whose search for her roots mirrors Concha's homesickness for the village she knew as a child. Like the family in Alcal 's previous work, this one travels farAphysically, spiritually and emotionallyAin order to survive. But while the same themes of Latin American identity appear here, they too often seem reported rather than lived.
(Publishers Weekly)YA-This moving tale, told by three women, spans more than a century. It begins in the 1870s as the Mexican army decimates a small Indian village in order to suppress a native uprising. An Opata girl, Concha, is separated from her family and forced to make her way alone to Tucson. Defiled first by soldiers and later by an Anglo, she becomes the housekeeper for a wealthy Mexican family and bears an illegitimate child. Bewildered by her mother's devotion to the lost paradise of her native village, Rosa continues the story as a youngster caught between cultures. At 15, she marries a young evangelical minister and is torn between her adopted faith and her mother's spiritualism. The third woman to tell her story is Shelly, a Latina who works in a publishing house in modern-day Los Angeles. Troubled by the unwanted sexual advances of a boss, she escapes for several weeks to Tucson on a project to seek out photographs of a lost Indian tribe-the Opata. There, she meets a woman whose family seems unexpectedly linked to her own. The Flower in the Skull is rich in the lore of the Southwest and tells the little-known tale of the assimilation and loss of the indigenous people of the Sonoran desert. It is also a story of survival in a harsh, often dangerous world.
Pat Bangs, Fairfax County Public Library, VA--(School Library Journal)
