Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
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Bless Me, Ultima

Author: Rudolfo Anaya

Narrator: Robert Ramirez

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/17/2007

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic bestseller, Bless Me, Ultima... 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.

About Rudolfo Anaya

Rudolfo Anaya is professor emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. He has received numerous literary awards, including the Premio Quinto Sol and a National Medal of Arts. He is the author of the classic work Bless Me, Ultima, which was chosen for the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read. Anaya's other books for adults include Tortuga, Heart of Aztlan, Alburquerque, Rio Grande Fall, Shaman Winter, Jemez Spring, Serafina's Stories, The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories, and Rudolfo Anaya: The Essays. His children's books include Farolitos of Christmas, My Land Sings, Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez, Roadrunner's Dance, and The First Tortilla. Bless Me, Ultima was adapted into a feature film in 2013. Anaya resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on April 28, 2013

Actual rating: 2.5 stars. This is a hard review to write. I read Bless Me, Ultima because it is frequently challenged, often banned, sometimes even burned. I read it because it has been banished from Tucson classrooms and school libraries. I read it because I live in a majority Mexican-American commu......more

Goodreads review by LARRY on April 25, 2007

As posted in [[URL not allowed]]: As a Hispanic, I cannot believe that I hadn't read *Bless Me, Ultima* earlier. Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down. Anaya is a superb storyteller. As it is in the Hispanic culture, elders are supposed to be taken care of whether or not they......more

Goodreads review by S on September 12, 2008

Being a native of New Mexico, I always heard references to this book growing up. I saw it in libraries, on recommended reading lists but never picked it up. I finally decided to read it after being transplanted to CA and was a little homesick and wanted to read something that would bring me closer t......more

Goodreads review by Adam on September 30, 2010

Post listen review If you like really poetic and flowery language to describe the most mundane of details then this is the book for you. This book has murder, revenge, redemption, witchcraft and school bullies in it yet it was able to pretty much bore me the entire time. Now I know that some people re......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on May 16, 2024

Wow... There is a lot going on in this one. It is interesting that it is a banned book. But I guess there is a lot of "bruha" and other-related craziness that may be the reason. Antonio Marez was a good-ass kid for all that life gave him. He could have gone in many directions, but his heart was pure.......more

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