Color de Nuestro Cielo Contributor(s): Trasi, Amita (Author) |
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ISBN: 0718075412 ISBN-13: 9780718075415 Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback Language: Spanish Published: July 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Inspiration - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Una profunda y emotiva novela sobre dos amigas de la infancia, una de ellas lucha para sobrevivir la trata y la otra se encuentra en una misi n por salvarla. Las vidas de dos ni as convergen solamente para cambiar una fat dica noche de 1993. Un desgarrador relato de amor, p rdida, perd n y perseverancia de la esperanza. La conmovedora historia de la amistad de dos ni as, una luchando por sobrevivir al comercio de personas y la otra intentando salvarla. Dos ni as cuyas vidas tomaron caminos distintos una devastadora noche de 1993. India, 1986: Mukta, una ni a de diez a os, perteneciente a la casta Yellamma, ha llegado a la edad de tener que cumplir su destino convirti ndose en prostituta del templo. En un intento de hacerla escapar de este legado, la llevan con una familia que la acoge en Bombay. All descubre la amistad de Tara, la hija de ocho a os de la familia de acogida que la ayuda a superar las heridas del pasado. Tara introduce a Mukta en un nuevo mundo: helados y dulces, poemas e historias, y una amistad que no hab a conocido nunca. En 1993, Mukta es secuestrada en la habitaci n de Tara. Once a os despu s, Tara todav a se culpa de lo que pas y se embarca en un viaje en busca de Mukta que la llevar a descubrir secretos de su propia familia. Desde un peque o pueblo de la India a la bulliciosa Bombay, Los ngeles y vuelta atr s, en medio del brutal mundo del tr fico de personas, este es un retrato conmovedor de la amistad, una historia de amor, traici n y redenci n que resiste la prueba del paso del tiempo. A sweeping and emotional novel about two childhood friends--one struggling to survive the human slave trade and the other on a mission to save her--two girls whose lives converge only to change one fateful night in 1993. A harrowing tale of love, loss, forgiveness and the perseverance of hope. In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice--a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night. India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old village girl from the lower caste Yellama cult has come of age and must fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute, as her mother and grandmother did before her. In an attempt to escape her fate, Mukta is sent to be a house girl for an upper-middle class family in Mumbai. There she discovers a friend in the daughter of the family, high spirited eight-year-old Tara, who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara introduces Mukta to an entirely different world--one of ice cream, reading, and a friendship that soon becomes a sisterhood. |
Contributor Bio(s): Trasi, Amita: - Amita Trasi was born and raised in Mumbai, India. She has an MBA in human resource management, and currently lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and two cats. |