Tortuga

Tortuga
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9781504011808
ISBN-13 : 1504011805
Rating : 4/5 (805 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tortuga by : Rudolfo Anaya

Download or read book Tortuga written by Rudolfo Anaya and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Book Award Winner: A novel of a New Mexico teenager’s journey of physical and spiritual recovery from the author of Bless Me, Ultima. When the story opens, the eponymous hero of Rudolfo Anaya’s novel is in an ambulance en route to a hospital for crippled children in the New Mexican desert. A poor boy from Albuquerque, sixteen-year-old Tortuga takes his name from the odd, turtle-shaped mountain that is rumored to possess miraculous curative powers. Tortuga is paralyzed, and not even his mother’s fervent prayers can heal him. But under the mountain’s watchful gaze, with the support of fellow patients, he begins the Herculean task of breaking out of his shell and becoming whole again. Drawn from personal experience and imbued with the phantasmagorical vision quests that distinguish Anaya’s work, Tortuga is a joyful, life-sustaining book about hope, faith, friendship, and love that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit in the physical world. “An extraordinary storyteller.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review


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