Caramelo Lib/E Contributor(s): Cisneros, Sandra (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0792727355 ISBN-13: 9780792727354 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Compact Disc Published: October 2002 Annotation: In this much-anticipated new novel, an American classic is born. As Lala Reyes and her family make the yearly journey from Chicago to her grandparents' house in Mexico City, she learns the story of her family. Caramelo portrays life inside and across borders -- a story that combines history (including the "Paris of the New World" that was Mexico City, and Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring '20s) and family (a shameful secret in Lala's father's past will haunt her own future) to make a bridge among Mexican, American, and Mexican-American cultures. Crackling with passion, wit, political intelligence, tenderness, and pitch-perfect dialogue, Caramelo is a vibrant tale spun from what is remembered of childhood and of family, set in a Mexico both real and imagined, and in an America that both is and isn't a promised land. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: 813.54 |
Physical Information: 1.56" H x 7.06" W x 6.66" L (1.20 lbs) |
Features: Unabridged |
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Publisher Description: Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip-a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels-from Chicago to the other side, Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family's stories, separating the truth from the healthy lies that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. We travel from the Mexico City that was the Paris of the New World to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties-and finally, to Lala's own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas. Caramelo is a vital, wise, romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major new novel from one of our country's most beloved storytellers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cisneros, Sandra: - Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street, and her subsequent short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature. |
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