The Tame Cactus [Spanish]

By Esperanza Zendejas

Raised by adoptive parents on a souther California farm, Millie Wolf is loved but lonely. Who were her birth parents? What happened to them and the rest of her Mexican family? Then a budding romance... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 096704670X
• ISBN13: 9780967046709
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Ojo Por Ojo
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Takes the reader through a spectrum of emotions.

You will gasp, laugh and cry as you read the pages of "The Tame Cactus."In the end you take with you a renewed belief in destiny and the faith that one day you too will find your way home.Akin to a KIVA --wonderfully spiritual yet grounded.

Real, Sad, Happy, Entertaining

Highly recommend this story. It is as real as fiction can get. I would like to express my appreciation to the author for taking the time to capture and share with us some of her undoubtedly most cherished memories transformed to fiction in an elaborate fusion of scenes, places, and characters that identify us.The experiences so vividly described in the novel are forever captured, never to be lost. This is the best way to tell our children and future generations how it was. This novel will help us maintain that link with our past during a present that threatens to purge our memories with overexposure to a synthetic world being ruled by the computer clock and the computer screen.Thank you,--Silvino

Wonderful details of the Mexican hometown life and people.

This is a great story! It beautifully describes the small Mexican village and way of life there. It made me experience many things all over again. I felt totally involved in the story. The way things worked out for the characters was just fabulous. From beginning to end, it had me wanting to read more and more. The events had me shedding tears nonstop. It's the type of story that you just can't put down. A true romantic and sentimental story!

So many reasons to read this book!

There are so many reasons why one should read this book, for both entertainment and education. This is the best representation of the wonderful Mexican culture and tradition that I have encountered. Due to a marriage uniting my US family with a Mexican family, I have embarked on a journey exploring ways of life for our neighbors in Mexico. Everything I have learned came alive to me in the story of the lives of these wonderful people. It is gratifying to learn that family values are as steeped in tradition in Mexico as they are in the US. The respect for family, friendships and lovers is brought to life in The Tame Cactus in a way that is very believable and entertaining. You feel as though you are a part of their celebrations and hardships. The courtship of Hector and Millie is awesome. When their passion nears abandon you are inclined to cheer them on, rather than to scorn. Every woman should have a Hector in her life!

Invaluable insight on the life many of us have lived.

A very compelling story on the life in this village town in Mexico. I myself have experienced some of these very same descriptive Mexican and American lifestyles. It has raised many questions I have of my childhood memories. Thank you for the insight and for reliving the memories of what I remember growing up in the village of La Yerbabuena, Michoacan and its'rich culture. I enjoyed the story very much. There was this beauty, that the author never sentimentalizes or forces it at you. She just says it and you live or relive those moments as you read the book.