作品情報

家族の時間を短編で積み重ねる作品集。

メキシコ系アメリカ人家族の日常と記憶を、短編の連なりとして描く。ひとつひとつの物語が、家族史と地域の感覚を静かに立ち上げる。

書籍情報

出版社

Univ of New Mexico Pr

発売日

2004-04-01

ページ数

208ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

13.44 x 2.13 x 21.18 cm

ISBN-13

9780826333667

ISBN-10

0826333664

価格

10150 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Family Saga

Born in 1908, two years before the start of the Mexican Revolution, Rafael lives in the village of San Cristóbal, in northern Sonora, Mexico, where his father, the village comisario, owns a bar, pool hall, and grocery store. This is a ranching town where vaqueros are heroes, and horses and bulls, as well as coyotes and rattlesnakes, provide thrills and teach lessons that Rafael and his brothers will never forget. The boy's earliest memories are of mounted revolutionaries riding through town and commandeering horses for Pancho Villa's campesino army. When his parents lose their life savings in the revolution, the family crosses the border to Arizona. Life in the north is a struggle, and young Rafael must put aside his dreams of education and work with his brothers picking lettuce wherever laborers are needed. "A heart-warming story of one family's struggles, survival, and eventual triumph. This immigration saga fits in the tradition of Barrio Boy and Y no se lo trago la tierra. So readable you can't put it down. It captures the history of the turbulent times."--Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima "Ralph M. Flores's The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family is an entertaining and inspirational work of fiction based on the life of the author's father who moves with his family from Mexico to Arizona to escape the social upheaval of the Mexican Revolution. It is a heartfelt tribute to his father whose life in Mexico and the United States is marked by courage, wisdom, hard work, love, and integrity--values characteristic of many immigrants."--Francisco Jiménez, author of The Circuit

Ralph M. Flores teaches at Albuquerque's Technical Vocational Institute; he lives in Tomé, New Mexico.

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