Dreaming in Cuban Cristina García

Dreaming in Cuban

Author: Cristina García
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Book Title
Dreaming in Cuban
Author
Cristina García
ISBN
9780345381439
"Impressive . . . Cristina Garc a'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 ."--Time Cristina Garc a'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 "a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel Garc a 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 "Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush."--San Francisco Chronicle "Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose."--The Washington Post "Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, Garc a just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind."--The Denver PostBinding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Cristina GarcíaPublisher: Ballantine BooksPublished: 02/10/1993ISBN: 9780345381439Pages: 256Weight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.59dAward: National Book Awards - NomineeReview Citations: Poder Hispanic 11/01/2008 pg. 70Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 44735 / Dreaming in CubanReading Level: 6.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11
"Impressive . . . Cristina Garc a'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 ."--Time

Cristina Garc a'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 "a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel Garc a 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

"Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose."--The Washington Post

"Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, Garc a just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind."--The Denver Post

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Cristina García
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 02/10/1993
ISBN: 9780345381439
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.59d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citations: Poder Hispanic 11/01/2008 pg. 70

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 44735 / Dreaming in Cuban
Reading Level: 6.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11
"Impressive . . . Cristina Garc a'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 ."--Time

Cristina Garc a'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 "a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel Garc a 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

"Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose."--The Washington Post

"Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, Garc a just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind."--The Denver Post

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Cristina García
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 02/10/1993
ISBN: 9780345381439
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.59d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citations: Poder Hispanic 11/01/2008 pg. 70

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 44735 / Dreaming in Cuban
Reading Level: 6.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11