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    612-822-4611

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Condor and Hummingbird

Condor and Hummingbird

Walker, Charlotte Zoe

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0692500871
ISBN13: 9780692500873
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 11 2016
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It is the summer of 1963, with stories of past political violence in Colombia and hints of the coming assassination of JFK in the United States. Laura, a young North American woman, visits Bogota with her Colombian husband Andres and their two small children, though strange, seemingly mystical messages have warned her not to. Conversations with her husband's mad sister Francisca, and Señor Vargas, a revolutionary jewelry maker who lives in the dismal hotel run by Andres's mother, help Laura come to grips with the problems of poverty and lost children in her husband's country. Realizing how little she and Andres know one another, and how little she knows herself, Laura builds an alliance with Francisca to rescue the tiny, bird-like Carmen, a dwarfed servant child, one of Colombia's lost children. But La Violencia is not yet ended. In a tale of dramatic change and shocking discovery, Condor and Hummingbird explores both social and psychological issues, while it also looks back to the wisdom of ancient myths, and Francisca's beloved ancestors-- the elusive Kogi of Santa Marta, who long ago retreated high into the Sierra to preserve their culture from the Spanish conquest. Alice Walker called Condor and Hummingbird a passionate and compelling novel about a woman's discovery that the most foreign country is within.

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