The cover of Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario. |
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| Author(s) | Sonia Nazario |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Non-Fiction |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| Published in English |
2006 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback & iTunes) |
| Pages | 300 pp (English edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0-8129-7178-1 (English edition, hardback) |
| OCLC Number | 77617402 |
| Dewey Decimal | 305.23089/687283073 B 22 |
| LC Classification | E184.H66 N397 2007 |
First published in 2006, Enrique's Journey is the best-selling non-fiction book by Sonia Nazario, about a 17-year-old boy from Honduras who makes the difficult journey from his home town, Tegucigalpa to United States, to be reunited with his mother. It is based on a Pulitzer prize-winning series of articles in the Los Angeles Times published in 2003[1].
The book is due to be filmed by HBO as a mini-series[2].
Contents |
Enrique's mother, Lourdes, travels to America in search of a better life, so she can support her two young children, Enrique and his sister Belky. At the age of seventeen, Enrique decides to follow in his mother's footsteps and go to the U.S. Along the way, he must face the dangerous, and sometimes fatal, ride on the tops of the train and beatings from various gangs and police officers.