Tree GirlHarper Collins, 13 Απρ 2004 - 225 σελίδες They call Gabriela Tree Girl. Laj Ali Re Jayub in her native language of Quiché. Gabi climbs trees to be within reach of the eagles and watch the sun rise into an empty sky. She is at home among the outstretched branches of the Guatemalan forests. Then one day from the safety of a tree, Gabi witnesses the sights and sounds of an unspeakable massacre. She sees rape and murder -- the ravages of guerrilla warfare. She vows to be Tree Girl no more. Earthbound, she joins the hordes of refugees struggling to reach the Mexican border. She has lost her whole family; her entire village has been wiped out. Yet she clings to the hope that she will be reunited with her youngest sister, Alicia. Over dangerous miles and months of hunger, thirst, and the threat of more violence from soldiers, Gabriela’s search for Alicia and for a safe haven becomes a search for self. Having turned her back on her own identity, can she hope to claim a new life? This novel is based on a true story told to the author one night by the real Tree Girl in a secure safe house in Guatemala. |
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... hand over my head. If I held my breath and spread my fingers wide apart, I could feel the clouds. The canton where I lived was nothing more than a simple cluster of wood-planked huts that formed a small village, each home joined to the ...
... hand loom to a small cedar tree and leaned back against a waist strap to keep the colorful threads tight and straight while I worked. That's how I was seated when two boys discovered me alone in the forest a short dis- tance from our ...
... hands and helping me to escape the ground. Each branch lifted me safely to the next, passing me higher and higher. The boys swore loudly as they scrambled after me. "We didn't hurt you," one shouted. "You bit me, you ugly toad!" the ...
... hand were no larger than broomsticks. With the extra weight, the tree bent dangerously. One of the boys reached for an avocado to throw back at me, so I held tightly to the tree and swung my body from side to side. The tree swayed as if ...
... throwing corn husks at the dogs. "Would you help me to dip the pig in boiling water and scrape the skin?" he asked. Suddenly Lester held his stomach with his hands. "I wish I could help you, but something I ate. 18 TREE GIRL.
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