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The Resource Infinite country, Patricia Engel

Infinite country, Patricia Engel

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"Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forest mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of kaleidoscope. We see Talia's parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see them leave Bogotá with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on North American soil. We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro's deportation and the family's splintering--the costs they've all been living with ever since. Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in the United States, Infinity Country is the story of two countries and one mixed-status family--for whom every triumph is stitched with regret, and every dream pursued bears the weight of a dream deferred"--Back cover
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
4 audio discs (5 hr.)
Note
Title from web page
Isbn
9781797119618
Instance
Label
Infinite country
Title
Infinite country
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Patricia Engel
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Contributor
Author
Narrator
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Language
eng
Summary
"Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forest mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of kaleidoscope. We see Talia's parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see them leave Bogotá with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on North American soil. We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro's deportation and the family's splintering--the costs they've all been living with ever since. Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in the United States, Infinity Country is the story of two countries and one mixed-status family--for whom every triumph is stitched with regret, and every dream pursued bears the weight of a dream deferred"--Back cover
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TEFMT
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Engel, Patricia
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
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Read by Inés del Castillo
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Castillo, Inés del
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  • Colombians
  • Families
  • Deportees
  • Noncitizens
  • Bogotá (Colombia)
  • Illegal immigration
  • Undocumented immigrants
  • Familles
  • Immigration clandestine
  • Illegal immigration
  • Colombians
  • Deportees
  • Families
  • Noncitizens
  • Colombia
  • United States
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not applicable
Label
Infinite country, Patricia Engel
Instantiates
Publication
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Title from web page
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Carrier category
audio disc
Carrier category code
  • sd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
spoken word
Content type code
  • spw
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1232950586
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
4 audio discs (5 hr.)
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781797119618
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not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
mass produced
Kind of material
plastic with metal
Media category
audio
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • s
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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
Other control number
9781797119601
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Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
sound disc
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
System control number
(OCoLC)1232950586
Tape configuration
not applicable
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not applicable
Label
Infinite country, Patricia Engel
Publication
Note
Title from web page
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Carrier category
audio disc
Carrier category code
  • sd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
spoken word
Content type code
  • spw
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1232950586
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Edition
Unabridged.
Extent
4 audio discs (5 hr.)
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781797119618
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
mass produced
Kind of material
plastic with metal
Media category
audio
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • s
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
Other control number
9781797119601
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 30dzng
  • 10dzng
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
sound disc
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
System control number
(OCoLC)1232950586
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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