Título: My Broken Language: A Memoir
Autor: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Sinopse: GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.
“Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.”—Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning creator of Hamilton and In the Heights
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Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. Her family became her private pantheon, a gathering circle of powerful orisha-like women with tragic real-world wounds, and she vowed to tell their stories—but first she’d have to get off the stairs and join the dance. She’d have to find her language.
Weaving together Hudes’s love of music with the songs of her family, the lessons of North Philly with those of Yale, this is a multimythic dive into home, memory, and belonging—narrated by an obsessed girl who fought to become an artist so she could capture the world she loved in all its wild and delicate beauty.
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Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “My Broken Language: A Memoir”, de Quiara Alegría Hudes, publicado pela editora One World, em 2022 e com 336 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: One World
Páginas: 336
Ano: 2022-01-11
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0399590064
ISBN13: 9780399590061
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora One World exploram narrativas que transitam entre histórias pessoais intensas e análises profundas de contextos sociais complexos. O catálogo apresenta obras que combinam relatos de trajetórias individuais marcadas por desafios e transformações com reflexões sobre temas como racismo, poder, identidade e resistência. A linguagem varia do lírico e poético ao didático e manifesto, oferecendo tanto experiências de leitura imersivas quanto abordagens que convidam à reflexão crítica. O tom pode ser tanto íntimo e emocional quanto urgente e político, com ritmo que ora privilegia a fluidez narrativa, ora a densidade argumentativa.
