Dreaming In Cuban

Dreaming In Cuban
ISBN: 9780345381439
Publication Date: 10 February 1993

&;Impressive . . . [Cristina García&;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 Moré.&;&;Time

Cristina García&;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 García Márquez&; (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, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.&;&;The Denver Post