The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child - Rilegato

Jiménez, Francisco

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ISBN 10: 0395979021 ISBN 13: 9780395979020

Casa editrice: Clarion Books, 1999

Riassunto

"'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California -- to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to call one palce home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Francisco Jiménez emigrated from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, to California, where he worked for many years in the fields with his family. He received both his master’s degree and his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is now chairman of the Modern Languages and Literature Department at Santa Clara University, the setting of much of Reaching Out. He is the award-winning author of The Circuit, Breaking Through, La Mariposa, and his newest novel, Reaching Out. He lives in Santa Clara, California, with his family.

Francisco Jimenez is the Sanfilippo Professor of Modern Languages at Santa Clara University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Clarion Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0395979021
• ISBN 13: 9780395979020
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile