路易•艾伯托•伍瑞阿（Luis Alberto Urrea）

美國當今最受歡迎的作傢，目前在伊利諾大學教授創意寫作。父親是墨西哥人，母親是美國紐約人。著作豐富多樣，曾獲得「桐山環太平洋文學獎」「美國圖書獎」「美國西部州圖書獎」「科羅拉多圖書獎」「蘭納基金會獎」「剋裏斯多福獎」等多項文學獎項，並躋身「拉丁美洲文學名人堂」。著有《魔鬼公路：真實故事》《鐵絲網的另一邊：墨西哥邊界的生活與艱辛》《睡童湖畔：墨西哥邊界的祕密生活》《無人之子》《浪遊時光》《尋雪》《六種天空》等；詩集《生之熾》《鬼恙》《墨佬》，詩作入選《美國最佳詩選》。目前和老婆、三個小孩、一隻貓和一隻鸚鵡住在芝加哥。

The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico.It is 1889, and civil war is brewing in Mexico. A 16-year-old girl, Teresita, illegitimate but beloved daughter of the wealthy and powerful rancher Don Tomas Urrea, wakes from the strangest dream--a dream that she has died. Only it was not a dream. This passionate and rebellious young woman has arisen from death with a power to heal--but it will take all her faith to endure the trials that await her and her family now that she has become the Saint of Cabora.THE HUMMINGBIRD?S DAUGHTER is a vast, hugely satisfying novel of love and loss, joy and pain. Two decades in the writing, this is the masterpiece that Luis Alberto Urrea has been building up to.