Dreaming in Cuban
€œImpressive . . . [Cristina GarcÂa€s] 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 Mor©.€Â€"Time
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Cristina GarcÂa€s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country€s 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 €œa work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel GarcÂa M¡rquez€ (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel€s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author.
Praise for Dreaming in Cuban
€œRemarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.€Â€"San Francisco Chronicle
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€œCaptures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.€Â€"The Washington Post
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€œBrilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, GarcÂa just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.€Â€"The Denver Post