Of Dreams & Thorns cover art

Of Dreams & Thorns

A Novel

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Try for £0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Of Dreams & Thorns

By: J. C. Salazar
Narrated by: George Kastrinos
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £18.99

Buy Now for £18.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

When a 1950s rural Mexican family of nine is forced to resettle in an urban American metropolis, its cultural clash is hopeful, exhausting, and thorny. Hear all about it in Of Dreams & Thorns.

This audiobook is not a woe-is-me, immigrant, life-is-so-unfair kind of story. There are no victims here. Rather, it is a portrait of the character and passions of one man, his family, and his fellow life-travelers in an immigrant community. It is also a landscape or tapestry that captures the splendors of this collection of characters that only comes from an intimacy with their various human dimensions - warts and all.

You will meet Ramiro, a strong-willed, self-reliant, deeply passionate man who is at times a dreamer, sometimes defiant, sometimes tyrannical, but always in control of the ship that carries his lovely wife, Eliza, and their seven children. Ramiro’s hopes and dreams are modest and realistic, yet, as the title suggests, the book shows that a man’s best plans can often go astray. Indeed, it is Ramiro’s - and his family’s - resilience and courage in fighting for his beliefs that will capture your heart and imagination.

©2017 J. C. Salazar (P)2019 J. C. Salazar
Family Life Fiction Historical Fiction World Literature Dream Heartfelt
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Ma and Me cover art
All My Love, Detrick cover art
If Today Be Sweet cover art
Say I'm Dead cover art
After All... cover art
Better Never than Late cover art
Growing Up X cover art
Independence cover art
The German Wife cover art
Unemployable cover art
Dovetail cover art
The Godmothers cover art
The Book of Fate cover art
The Hero of Fern Gully and Other Jamaican Short Stories cover art
Mother of Strangers cover art
The Son of the House cover art

What listeners say about Of Dreams & Thorns

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.