Résultats pour "mango" dans Littérature du monde

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK NATIONAL BESTSELLER A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2025...

Twenty-year-old Jummai is a beautiful and unassuming house girl whose dreams of escaping her home life are disrupted when an unexpected pregnancy forces her to hide her lover's identity. Tebeya, an ambitious Dublin-educated doctor, has left prestigious opportunities abroad to return to the small town of her birth, and discovers a painful betrayal when she strives to take control of the mission clinic.

Dorothea Benton Frank is one of America’s most insightful writers weaving highly addictive tales of the conundrums of life with hilarity and heat. Now, in The Land of Mango Sunsets, Frank gives us one woman’s journey toward a hard-won truth—life isn’t always what it appears to be, and...

Esperanza tem um nome mexicano, origens mexicanas, aparência mexicana, mas nasceu nos Estados Unidos e mora num decadente bairro de Chicago. Nesse contraste cultural, ela observa a vida dos vizinhos e das amigas para aprender a construir sua própria identidade. Em fragmentos do cotidiano, a autora de A casa na Rua Mango nos apresenta um panorama do universo de Esperanza e costura uma linha que vai da infância envergonhada da menina à tomada de consciência e início do amadurecimento.

After heartbreaking losses, Luna craves adventure. An escape into a different world away from her sheltered childhood. Lucien, a young architect and world traveler, finds a stranger’s journal at a café. Despite his pangs of guilt, he’s fascinated and goes on reading. When they meet, Luna is inspired by Lucien’s stories and adventurous spirit to go on a Peace Corps assignment to a rice-growing village in Cambodia. What she finds there defies everything she could ever have imagined. Can she leave this world unscathed?

Dorothea Benton Frank is one of America's most insightful writers weaving highly addictive tales of the conundrums of life with hilarity and heat. Now, in The Land of Mango Sunsets, Frank gives us one woman's journey toward a hard-won truth—that life isn't always what it appears to be, and the...

Celebrado desde su publicación inicial como el relato clásico de una muchada del barrio latino de Chicago, La casa en Mango Street has sido elogadio por los críticos, acogido por los niños y sus padres y abuelos y estudiado por todas partes, desde escuelas primarias en las grandes ciudades...

El Viejo y Su Mata de Mango: Raíces Profundas es una historia profunda, relevante y conmovedora sobre un hombre llamado Juan José Muñoz que se negó a permitir que el último árbol de mango restante de su amado país fuera desarraigado, como ya se había hecho con gran parte de la identidad cultural del país. La misión de borrar todo su patrimonio. Al igual que el árbol de mango en flor, profundamente enraizado, se mantuvo firme e inamovible en sus raíces.

The Old Man and His Mango Tree: Deep Roots is a profound, relevant, and heart-felt tale about a man named Mr. Munoz who refused to allow the last remaining mango tree of his beloved country to be uprooted, as had already been done with much of the country’s cultural identity in the mission to erase their entire heritage. Much like the deeply rooted, blooming mango tree, he stood rooted, firm and unmovable. Inspired by Mr. Munoz’s tenacity and outraged at the adversary’s audacity, his nephew hatches what just might be a solution to the depressing invasion on their nation.