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Marc Talbert

Autor/a de Heart of a Jaguar

19+ obres 200 Membres 3 Ressenyes

Obres de Marc Talbert

Heart of a Jaguar (1995) 30 exemplars
Dead Birds Singing (1985) 29 exemplars
A Sunburned Prayer (1995) 26 exemplars
The Purple Heart (1992) 25 exemplars
Pillow of Clouds (1991) 19 exemplars
Star of Luis (1999) 16 exemplars
The Trap (1999) 10 exemplars
Toby (1987) 6 exemplars
Double or Nothing (1990) 5 exemplars
The Paper Knife (1988) 5 exemplars
Rabbit in the rock (1989) 3 exemplars
Thin ice (1989) 1 exemplars
Altogether Ernest (2011) 1 exemplars
Le pèlerinage de Chimayo (1997) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Trapped!: Cages of Mind and Body (1938) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1953
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Llocs de residència
Ames, Iowa, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Educació
Iowa State University
Professions
Psychotherapist
elementary teacher

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Ressenyes

Balam's Mayan village is plagued by a long drought. Ah Chan, the village priest, has conducted ceremonies and spilled villagers' blood to honor the Chacs (gods) and appeal to them for rain. But still the rains don't come and there is concern about planting the maize crops. The young bachelors begin to criticize old Ah Chan for being unable to appease the gods. Meanwhile, Balam has been having visions, seeing and talking to his dead mother and twin brother, and seeing a jaguar instead of his own reflection in the cenote water well. While trying to follow the bachelors when they decide to storm a neighboring village, he kills a jaguar, pulls out it's heart and wears the jaguar skin. Ah Chan sees that by killing the jaguar Balam has become a man. It also appears that they must sacrifice the best of the villagers in order to appease the gods and Ah Chan determines Balam is that person. The book ends abruptly with Balam's sacrifice and his heart beating in Ah Chan's hand.

For obvious reasons, not the book for everyone!
… (més)
 
Marcat
Salsabrarian | Feb 2, 2016 |
A Hispanic boy, raised as a Roman Catholic, struggles to understand and to be reconciled with his newly discovered Iberian-Jewish ancestry.
 
Marcat
STBA | Dec 10, 2009 |
10-year-old Jeremy is sexually abused by George, his mother's live-in boyfriend.
 
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TonySandel | Sep 15, 2007 |

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Obres
19
També de
1
Membres
200
Popularitat
#110,008
Valoració
½ 3.3
Ressenyes
3
ISBN
57
Llengües
4

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