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La Travesia de Enrique Paperback - 2006
by Sonia Nazario
This timely account of one anguished family's experience with illegal immigration is also a mythic story about the dangerous journey undertaken to make a broken family whole again. "Enrique's Journey" is the winner of a dozen awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.
Summary
En esta asombrosa historia real, la galardonada periodista Sonia Nazario relata la inolvidable odisea de un nino hondureno que enfrenta penurias y peligros para reunirse con su madre en los Estados Unidos.Cuando Enrique tiene cinco anos, su madre, Lourdes, se marcha de Honduras para trabajar en los Estados Unidos. Esto le permite enviarle dinero a Enrique para que pueda comer mejor y asistir a la escuela mas alla del tercer grado. Lourdes le promete a su hijo que regresara pronto, pero en los Estados Unidos las cosas no son faciles. Transcurren once anos. A Enrique lo desespera pensar que no volvera a ver a su madre, y se lanza solo en su busca desde Tegucigalpa con poco mas que un pedazo de papel donde ha escrito el numero telefonico de su madre en Carolina del Norte. Sin dinero, hara una travesia peligrosa e ilegal a lo largo de Mexico de la unica forma que puede: encaramado en los costados y en los techos de los trenes de carga. Con recia determinacion y profundo anhelo, Enrique atraviesa mundos hostiles y desconocidos eludiendo pandilleros que controlan los techos de los trenes, bandidos despiadados y policias corruptos que solo quieren robarle lo que tiene y deportarlo. Enrique avanza a fuerza de ingenio, coraje, y esperanza--y tambien gracias a la bondad de los desconocidos. Es una travesia epica que hacen miles de ninos inmigrantes todos los anos para encontrarse con sus madres en los Estados Unidos. Basado en la serie publicada por el periodico Los Angeles Times que gano dos premios Pulitzer--uno por el reportaje, el otro por la fotografia--La Travesia de Enrique es una historia para todos los tiempos sobre familias desgarradas por la separacion, sobre el anhelo de volver a estar juntos y sobre un nino que arriesgara su vida para reencontrarse con la madre que ama.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Title La Travesia de Enrique
- Author Sonia Nazario
- Binding Paperback
- Edition TRA
- Pages 323
- Language SP
- Publisher Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Date February 21, 2006
- ISBN 9780812975802
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Ethnic Orientation: Latino
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- Criticas, 02/23/2006, Page 0
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