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Condor and Hummingbird

Condor and Hummingbird


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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."
About the Author: Charlotte Zoë Walker is a former NEA Fellow in Creative Writing, and O. Henry Award winner. In addition to Condor and Hummingbird, she has published numerous essays and short stories, including "The Very Pineapple" (Prize Stories 1991: The O. Henry Awards), and "Goat's Milk" (listed among "100 Distinguished Stories" in Best American Short Stories, 1993). She is the editor of two books on naturalist John Burroughs published by Syracuse University Press, Sharp Eyes, and The Art of Seeing Things. She lives with her husband, Dutch ironsmith Roland Greefkes, on a hillside in upstate New York that is visited by many hummingbirds, but no condors.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780692500873
  • Publisher: Leaf & Tendril Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Leaf & Tendril Books
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 162
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 263 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0692500871
  • Publisher Date: 11 Feb 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 140 mm

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