Dreaming in Cuban

ISBN: 0345381432

Author: Garc?a, Cristina

Condition: Used

Impressive . . . [Cristina Garcías] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond, as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.-TimeCristina Garcías acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a countrys revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novels original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author.Praise for Dreaming in CubanRemarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.-San Francisco ChronicleCaptures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.-The Washington PostBrilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.-The Denver Post