![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has noted that the Chinese Cubans have. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Garcia shot into fame with her debut novel Dreaming in Cuban, which was nominated for the National Book Award. 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 ![]() “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.” - The Washington Post evocative and lush.” - San Francisco Chronicle an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic. 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. 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. 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. 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.”- TimeĬristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. ![]()
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