The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire
A Tejano Elegy
$43.33
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2011
Summary
“Wonderful…a book that connects us to the global story of ourselves.” -Sandra Cisneros
In this beautifully written, highly original work, John Phillip Santos—the author of Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation—creates a virtuosic meditation on ancestry and origins. Weaving together a poetic mix of family remembrance, personal odyssey, conquest history, and magical realism, Santos recounts his quest to find the missing chronicle of his mother’s family, who arrived in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143118732 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143118730 |
| Author: | John Phillip Santos |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 263g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 140mm x 215mm |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
John Phillip Santos
John Phillip Santos, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, is the first Mexican American Rhodes Scholar. His awards include the Academy of American Poets’ Prize at Notre Dame and the Oxford Prize for fiction.
Santos is the author of numerous articles on Latino culture that have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the San Antonio Express-News. He is also a writer and producer of more than forty television documentaries for CBS-TV and PBS-TV, two of which were Emmy nominees. He lives in New York City.
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