Лучшие книги Рудольфо Анайя

Автор романа - представитель своеобразной народности чикано, этнического смешения американцев и мексиканцев, живущей на территории южных штатов США. Это - ведущееся от автора повествование о детстве, воспоминания о жизни маленького провинциального городка, затерявшегося в просторах Нью - Мексико. Старая врачевательница колдунья Ультима, живую душу которой воплощает неразлучная с ней сова, вплоть до самой своей гибели становится наставницей и охранительницей юного Антонио.

Stories filled with wonder and the haunting beauty of his culture have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English, and his tales fairly shimmer with the lyric richness of his prose. Acclaimed in both Spanish and English, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic bestseller... Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will test the bonds that tie him to his people, and discover himself in the pagan past, in his father's wisdom, and in his mother's Catholicism. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world - and will nurture the birth of his soul.