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.

路易•艾伯托•伍瑞阿（Luis Alberto Urrea）

美國當今最受歡迎的作傢，目前在伊利諾大學教授創意寫作。父親是墨西哥人，母親是美國紐約人。著作豐富多樣，曾獲得「桐山環太平洋文學獎」「美國圖書獎」「美國西部州圖書獎」「科羅拉多圖書獎」「蘭納基金會獎」「剋裏斯多福獎」等多項文學獎項，並躋身「拉丁美洲文學名人堂」。著有《魔鬼公路：真實故事》《鐵絲網的另一邊：墨西哥邊界的生活與艱辛》《睡童湖畔：墨西哥邊界的祕密生活》《無人之子》《浪遊時光》《尋雪》《六種天空》等；詩集《生之熾》《鬼恙》《墨佬》，詩作入選《美國最佳詩選》。目前和老婆、三個小孩、一隻貓和一隻鸚鵡住在芝加哥。