Bless Me, Ultima

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By Rudolfo Anaya

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Jun 1, 2012
Page Count
272 pages
ISBN-13
9781455521326

Price

$7.99

Price

$9.99 CAD

This coming-of-age classic from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and magic into his life (Denver Post).

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 probe the family ties that bind and rend him, and he will discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past–a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world… and will nurture the birth of his soul.

  • "The best-known and most-respected contemporary Chicano fiction."
    New York Times
  • "One of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists."
    Denver Post

Rudolfo Anaya

About the Author

RUDOLFO ANAYA (1937–2020) fue una de las voces fundadoras de la literatura chicana moderna. Como exprofesor de la Universidad de Nuevo México, ganó numerosos premios literarios, entre ellos, el Premio Nacional Quinto Sol de literatura chicana, el Premio Notable de Nuevo México del 2007 y el Premio de Ficción del PEN Center USA West. Fue un defensor permanente de las voces chicanas y se dedicó a apoyar a los aspirantes a escritores.

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