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Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9780593611142
Content:
" NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &bull,#160,EAD WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY &bull,A young poet tells the inspiring story of his160 migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this160 &ldquo,ripping memoir&rdquo,(NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. 160 &ldquo,/b〉I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book. &rdquo,/b〉&mdash,mma Straub 160&ldquo, riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.&rdquo,mdash,ave Eggers ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago&mdash,ldquo,ne day, you&rsquo,l take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.&rdquo,/i〉 160 160 Javier Zamora&rsquo, adventure is a160 three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across160 the U.S. border.160 He will leave behind160 his beloved aunt and grandparents160 to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone160 amid160 a group of strangers and a &ldquo,oyote&rdquo,hired to lead them to safety, Javier160 expects his160 trip160 to160 last two short weeks. 160 At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents&rsquo,arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him,nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family. 160 A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides160 an immediate and intimate account160 not only160 of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also160 of160 the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier160 Zamora&rsquo,160 story, but it&rsquo, also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home."
Content:
Rezension(1): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from May 23, 2022 Poet Zamora ( Unaccompanied ) presents an immensely moving story of desperation and hardship in this account of his childhood migration from El Salvador to the U.S. To reunite with his parents—who left during the Salvadoran Civil War—nine-year-old Zamora was forced to rely on the help of coyotes to get to America in 1999. But, as he relates in affecting detail, the voyage for his group was perilous and trust was a rare commodity. What was supposed to be an easy two-week trip became a two-month nightmare pocked with seedy characters, days spent locked in various hideouts before moving, and a never-ending stream of promises shattered. Between dangerous marches through the desert and being caught at the U.S. border multiple times, Zamora’s group was forced to depend on one another for survival. The surrogate family they formed offered Zamora respite from the despair, and he transforms the experience into a stirring portrait of the power of human connection. Rendering the end of their journey in a final heartbreaking scene, Zamora writes, “I can feel my heart in my stomach... I close my eyes and take a long sniff. Their sweat, the smell of loroco and masa, is faint, but it’s them.” This sheds an urgent and compassionate light on the human lives caught in an ongoing humanitarian crisis." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:Javier Zamora narrates his memoir with a singular power. His account of his childhood migration from El Salvador to the U.S. provides listeners the truly heartbreaking first-person experiences of a child in the midst of a life-or-death struggle. In 1999, Zamora traveled thousands of miles, with a group of strangers, through the towns and deserts of Central America and Mexico. His parents, already in the U.S., had no ability to contact him directly during his journey. Zamora recounts his experiences of assuming a Mexican identity and facing multiple confrontations with law enforcement. He misses his parents and longs to hear their voice. Zamora conveys this heartrending listening experience with quiet, beautiful humanity. S.P.C. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award � AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine"
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English
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