Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me?

by Bárbara Renaud González

Book Overview

Runner-up, Best Popular Fiction in English, Latino Book Awards Competition, 2010

The golondrina is a small and undistinguished swallow. But in Spanish, the word has evoked a thousand poems and songs dedicated to the migrant's departure and hoped-for return. As such, the migrant becomes like the swallow, a dream-seeker whose real home is nowhere, everywhere, and especially in the heart of the person left behind.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292719582
• ISBN13: 9780292719583
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"