Reviews for Song of the Hummingbird

The average rating for Song of the Hummingbird based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-01-18 00:00:00 David Wilson The history of the conquest of Indigenous Mexico--up close as a first person testimony. Limon takes the format of interview into an intimate dialogue between Catholic Priest (with his own set of baggage) and an elder anciana, or native woman who lived through the full of the conquest and survived to tell her story as it affected not only her people, but her womanhood. It is more fact than fiction because the value of this woman's testimony is based on the journals, chronicles and codices that recorded the holocaust of mesoamerica during the Spanish invasion. Touching, rich with passion, and full of sorrow...Song of the Hummingbird is a fast read that keeps you glued to the text from beginning to end. This is decolonizing literature that reclaims essential history.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-02-29 00:00:00 Gary Pyle A beautiful heartfelt story that takes you to a place in time during Spanish colonization in Mexico where a Spanish priest listens to the last confession of an old Aztec woman by the name of Hummingbird. In this book you’ll be shown the suffering and the fall of the Aztec empire through Hummingbird’s eyes while also seeing a friendship between the Priest and the Aztec woman build. Not only is this a must read for all those of Mexican decent like me, but I would highly encourage and recommend for everyone to read this book. If we could all open our minds and hearts to see the suffering of other people through their eyes, we can defeat ignorance and hate. This book will inspire understanding and love.