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Under the Feet of Jesus

De: Helena Maria Viramontes
Narrado por: Nancy Ticotin
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Sinopse

A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in California’s fields.

At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death.

Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes’ prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feat of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction.

Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.

©1995 Helena Maria Viramontes (P)2018 Penguin Audio

Resumo da Crítica

“Brilliantly executed...intense...exhibits a command of the potential magic inherent in the written word that most writers can only aspire to...a remarkable voice.” (Sunday Oregonian)

“Lyrical...a compelling debut...Viramontes displays gifts of understanding and storytelling unusual for a first novel.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“A literary feat and a powerful political statement.” (Seattle Times & Post-Intelligencer)

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