Luis Alberto Urrea se ve své tvorbě zabývá tématy hranic, imigrace a hledání lásky a sounáležitosti. Jeho díla jsou ovlivněna jeho vlastním životem na pomezí dvou kultur. Urrea pronikavě zkoumá lidskou zkušenost a hledání identity v neustále se měnícím světě. Jeho styl je plný silných obrazů a hlubokého vcítění do osudů svých postav.
Velký Anděl má velkou rodinu i velký nádor. Krátce před narozeninami mu zemřela matka, a tak se rozhodne uspořádat opulentní rodinnou víkendovou sešlost – v sobotu budou smutnit na pohřbu matky, v neděli se zas veselit na narozeninové oslavě, Andělově poslední. Jak jinak se patřičně rozloučit se svými blízkými než pěkně, jak jsou zvyklí, po mexicko-americku.
The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico.It is 1889, and civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16-year-old girl, Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher Don Tomas Urrea, wakes from the strangest dream--a dream that she has died. Only it was not a dream. This passionate and rebellious young woman has arisen from death with a power to heal--but it will take all her faith to endure the trials that await her and her family now that she has become the Saint of Cabora.THE HUMMINGBIRD?S DAUGHTER is a vast, hugely satisfying novel of love and loss, joy and pain. Two decades in the writing, this is the masterpiece that Luis Alberto Urrea has been building up to.
The author of Across the Wire offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out.
At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny, Queen of America tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world.Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America.Teresita's passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons -- and, among them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate is a saint allowed to fall in love?