Сьюзен Стрейт — новинки
- 7 произведений
- 3 издания на 3 языках
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Mecca Сьюзен Стрейт
ISBN: 0374604517 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Straus and Giroux, Farrar Язык: Английский From the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwined lives of native Californians fighting for life and land Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like the Santa Ana winds that every year…
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A Million Nightingales: A Novel Сьюзен Стрейт
ISBN: 0375423648 Год издания: 2006 Язык: Русский A haunting, beautifully written novel set in early-nineteenth-century Louisiana: the tale of a slave girl’s journey—emotional and physical—from captivity to freedom. Susan Straight has been called “a writer of exceptional
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Highwire Moon Сьюзен Стрейт
ISBN: 0385722613 Год издания: 2002 Издательство: Anchor Язык: Английский Serafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her back to Mexico–without her three-year old daughter. Twelve years later, with a pair of silver barrettes her only tangible memory of Elvia, Serafina begins a harrowing journey back across the border to find her daughter. At the same time Elvia, now fifteen and pregnant, resolves to track her mother down. They travel a landscape populated by desperately poor migrants moving from harvest to harvest, truckers living hand-to-mouth in seedy motels, and lost children in foster homes. But the memory of love inspires hope, and out of these women’s…