Dreaming in Cuban (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 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 Post

Author: Cristina Garc?
ISBN-10: 0345381432
ISBN-13: 9780345381439
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Language: English
Published: 02/10/1993
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d

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

Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Poder Hispanic 11/01/2008 pg. 70