Te Ngaro o ngā Āhua o ngā Kōtiro Garcia
Julia Alvarez, 1991
Ngā Pukapuka a Algonquin
336 p.
ISBN-13: 9781565129757
whakarāpopototanga
Ko ngā Garcia—ko Tākuta Carlos (Papi), ko tana wahine ko Laura (Mami), me ā rāua tamāhine tokowhā, ko Carla, ko Sandra, ko Yolanda, me Sofía—nō te taumata teitei rawa atu o te hapori Karipiana Pāniora, he uri nō ngā conquistadores. E tata ana tō rātou kāinga whānau ki te whare o te tamahine a te kaitukino.
Nō reira, i te kitenga o te mahi a Tākuta Garcia i roto i tētahi nganatanga hurihanga, me oma te whānau. Ka tae rātou ki te Tāone o Niu Ioka i te tau 1960 ki tētahi oranga i tawhiti atu i tō rātou noho i te Dominican Republic. Me kimi e Papi he tūroro hou i te Bronx. Me kimi e Mami, i tawhiti atu i te pāmu me ngā kaitiaki o te whānau, ia ia anō.
I taua wā tonu, ka ngana ngā kōtiro ki te ngaro rātou anō—mā te wareware i tā rātou reo Pāniora, mā te whakatikatika i ō rātou makawe me te mau i ngā tarau pere he mea whakarara. Ki a rātou, he mea whakaora, he mea mamae hoki te noho i waenganui i te ao tawhito me te ao hou, me te ngana ki te whakatutuki i te mana o tō rātou pāpā, me te whakatutuki i ngā tumanakohanga a ā rātou hoa tāne Amerikana. Mā te pukapuka tuatahi a te kaituhi rongonui a Julia Alvarez e tuku ana i ngā kōtiro Garcia kia wātea ki te kōrero i ā rātou kōrero tino piripono mō te āhua o tō rātou noho ki te kāinga—kaua ki te kāinga—i Amerika.
He tawhiti te ara mai i Santo Domingo ki te Bronx, engari ki te taea e tetahi te haere i te tawhiti, ko ngā kōtiro Garcia. Tokowhā ngā Latina hihiko i rere atu i te oranga manaaki i runga i tētahi moutere ki roto i te ngangau o te tāone nui o New York, ka whakakeke rātou ki te tikanga tawhito a Mami rāua ko Papi, ā, ka awhi i ngā mea katoa e tukuna ana e Amerika.Mai i te kaiwhakaputa.)