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Dreaming in Cuban
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
Book Details
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- Publish Date: Feb 10th, 1993
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.10in - 0.60in - 0.45lb
- EAN: 9780345381439
- Categories: • Sagas• Literary• Psychological
About the Author
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What people are saying
Amistad, a division of HarperCollins in the HarperOne Group, is the oldest imprint devoted to books by and about Black people throughout the diaspora.
✨ Now in paperback: A WOMAN OF ENDURANCE BY Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa (@Writer1949) ✨ “A new classic of Caribbean literature.”—Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban https://t.co/qJgRHWG3Fm
We are committed to advancing policies & practices to dismantle the racial & economic barriers embedded in the American education system. CEO ➡️ @Denise_EdTrust
“Dreaming in Cuban” by Cristina García tells the deeply personal story of Celia del Pino & the women in her family as they deal w/ exile & emotional fallout from the Cuban Revolution. The book has been frequently banned & challenged for “obscenity”. #CantBeErased #WHM2023 https://t.co/bphq14hOZV
Supporting writers with the Whiting Award, Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Literary Magazine Prizes
"A haunting, bittersweet story of the del Pino family, a family divided in the wake of the Cuban revolution," DREAMING IN CUBAN, adapted by Whiting Award winner Cristina García from her novel, will make its world premiere @CentralWorks in Berkeley on 6/25. https://t.co/nNqKbCDm1n https://t.co/hl7BWia8Qh
Praise for this book
"Marvelous . . . A jewel of a novel . . . Dreaming in Cuban is beautifully written in language that is by turns languid and sensual, curt and surprising. Like Louise Erdrich, whose crystalline language is distilled of images new to our American literature but old to this land, Ms. García has distilled a new tongue from scraps salvaged through upheaval. . . . It is [the] ordinary magic in Ms. García's novel and her characters' sense of their own lyricism that make her work welcome as the latest sign that American literature has its own hybrid offspring of the Latin American school."--THULANI DAVIS, The New York Times Book Review
"Poignant and perceptive . . . It tells of a family divided politically and geographically by the Cuban revolution . . . [and] of the generational fissures that open on each side: In Cuba, between a grandmother who is a fervent Castro supporter and a daughter who retreats into an Afro-Cuban santeria cult; in America, between another daughter, who mocks her obsession . . . The realism is exquisite."--RICHARD EDER, Los Angeles Times
"Remarkable . . . A rich and haunting narrative . . . An intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . Evocative and lush."--JACKIE JONES, San Francisco Chronicle
"Impressive . . . Her 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."--AMELIA WEISS, Time
What people are saying
Amistad, a division of HarperCollins in the HarperOne Group, is the oldest imprint devoted to books by and about Black people throughout the diaspora.
✨ Now in paperback: A WOMAN OF ENDURANCE BY Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa (@Writer1949) ✨ “A new classic of Caribbean literature.”—Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban https://t.co/qJgRHWG3Fm
We are committed to advancing policies & practices to dismantle the racial & economic barriers embedded in the American education system. CEO ➡️ @Denise_EdTrust
“Dreaming in Cuban” by Cristina García tells the deeply personal story of Celia del Pino & the women in her family as they deal w/ exile & emotional fallout from the Cuban Revolution. The book has been frequently banned & challenged for “obscenity”. #CantBeErased #WHM2023 https://t.co/bphq14hOZV