購物比價找書網找車網
FindBook  
 有 1 項符合

Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy

的圖書
Learning to Die in Miami Learning to Die in Miami

作者:Eire,Carlos 
出版日期:2011-06-07
語言:英文   規格:平裝 / 14 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm / 普通級
圖書選購
型式價格供應商所屬目錄
 
$ 442
三民網路書店 三民網路書店
小說
圖書介紹 - 資料來源:博客來   評分:
圖書名稱:Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy

內容簡介

In his 2003 National Book Award–winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane—along with thousands of other children—to begin their new life in Miami in 1962. It would be years before he would see his mother again. He would never again see his beloved father.

Learning to Die in Miami opens as the plane lands and Carlos faces, with trepidation and excitement, his new life. He quickly realizes that in order for his new American self to emerge, his Cuban self must "die." And so, with great enterprise and purpose, he begins his journey.

We follow Carlos as he adjusts to life in his new home. Faced with learning English, attending American schools, and an uncertain future, young Carlos confronts the age-old immigrant’s plight: being surrounded by American bounty, but not able to partake right away. The abundance America has to offer excites him and, regardless of how grim his living situation becomes, he eagerly forges ahead with his own personal assimilation program, shedding the vestiges of his old life almost immediately, even changing his name to Charles. Cuba becomes a remote and vague idea in the back of his mind, something he used to know well, but now it "had ceased to be part of the world."

But as Carlos comes to grips with his strange surroundings, he must also struggle with everyday issues of growing up. His constant movement between foster homes and the eventual realization that his parents are far away in Cuba bring on an acute awareness that his life has irrevocably changed. Flashing back and forth between past and future, we watch as Carlos balances the divide between his past and present homes and finds his way in this strange new world, one that seems to hold the exhilarating promise of infinite possibilities and one that he will eventually claim as his own.

An exorcism and an ode, Learning to Die in Miami is a celebration of renewal—of those times when we’re certain we have died and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.

 

詳細資料

  • ISBN:9781439181911
  • 規格:平裝 / 14 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm / 普通級
贊助商廣告
 
金石堂 - 今日66折
懂生,才懂死
66折: $ 251 
金石堂 - 今日66折
長崎
作者:艾力克.菲耶
出版社:衛城出版
出版日期:2020-05-06
66折: $ 185 
金石堂 - 今日66折
成語就是這樣讀和寫--看成語笑話拚字音字形競賽
作者:呂淑敏
出版社:五南圖書出版股份有限公司
出版日期:2017-03-25
66折: $ 251 
金石堂 - 今日66折
當好總統變成壞總統
作者:黃相旻
出版社:衛城出版
出版日期:2020-10-28
66折: $ 231 
 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
被討厭的勇氣:自我啟發之父「阿德勒」的教導
作者:岸見一郎、古賀史健
出版社:究竟出版
出版日期:2014-10-30
$ 237 
金石堂 - 暢銷排行榜
隨插即上!性愛後宮 無修正 ※DAV
作者:西沢水木(西沢みずき)
出版社:未來數位有限公司
出版日期:2024-10-30
$ 253 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
TRAVELER LUXE旅人誌 11月號/2024 第234期:我的河輪生活!航行歐陸實現奢華小居遊
出版社:創新書報股份有限公司
出版日期:2024-11-01
$ 225 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
長期買進︰財金教授周冠男的42堂自制力投資課
作者:周冠男
出版社:遠見天下文化出版股份有限公司
出版日期:2024-07-31
$ 355 
 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
稻盛和夫  人生的王道(新裝紀念版)︰正確生活的共通哲學
作者:稻盛和夫
出版社:天下雜誌股份有限公司
出版日期:2024-10-02
$ 294 
金石堂 - 新書排行榜
魔都精兵的奴隸 (首刷限定版) 16
作者:竹村洋平/
出版社:東立出版社
出版日期:2024-11-05
$ 162 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
佛國傳-縱橫天下
作者:李家騏
出版社:商鼎數位出版
出版日期:2024-11-05
$ 585 
 

©2024 FindBook.com.tw -  購物比價  找書網  找車網  服務條款  隱私權政策