- Family relationships, Fiction, Grandparent and child, Healers
Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Paso del Norte, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
- Editions
- 44
- Language
- Italian, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781428149991
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