A collectible hardcover 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling
Chicano novel of all time, featuring a new foreword by Erika L. Sánchez,
the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect
Mexican Daughter
A Penguin Vitae Edition
Although only six years old, Antonio Marez is perceptive beyond his
years. He was brought into the world with the help of Ultima, a
curandera, or folk healer, in touch with nature and the spirit world.
Revered by some as a wisewoman but rebuked by others as a witch, Ultima
has now come back to stay with Tony's family in New Mexico. As Tony
seeks out his destiny--torn between his mother's farming forebears and
his father's wandering vaquero roots, between Spanish Catholicism and
the gods of his indigenous ancestors--Ultima's loving tutelage will help
him navigate questions of life and death, good and evil, and reveal to
him the vastness of the heritage that shapes him, in this pioneering
work of literature.
Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life"--is a
deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and
diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five
years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with
beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their
lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of
personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
