Vecindarios Excéntricos / Eccentric Neighborhoods Paperback - 1998
by Ferré, Rosario
- Used
"Eccentric Neighborhoods" is nothing if not fertile, so dense with fables, anecdotes, reminiscences and allegories that readers may find themselves wishing for machetes to cut away the fictional undergrowth.
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Details
- Title Vecindarios Excéntricos / Eccentric Neighborhoods
- Author Ferré, Rosario
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1. ed. de Vintag
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 408
- Language SP
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
- Date December 29, 1998
- Features Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 8666539-75
- ISBN 9780375703706
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Caribbean
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
From the jacket flap
"Mama nacii en Guayames el 6 de enero de 1901. Mi abuelo, Alvaro Rivas de Santillana, estaba convencido de que los Reyes Magos se la habian traido como obsequio, pero abuela Valeria decia que Clarissa habia nacido por culpa de las lluvias."
Asi comienza uno de los muchos cuentos de Vecindarios Excentricos, donde las historias de hombres y mujeres cuyos amores y perdidas coincidieron con la desapariciin de la sociedad colonial de la isla y con el nacimiento de una clase de nuevos ricos, se despliegan en un abanico de relatos esplendidos. Los personages de Ferre saltan fuera de la pagina con tal fuerza que rayan casi en lo mitoligico, acompanados por suenos y sucesos. Un abuelo carinoso, decidido a enlazar a su nieta con un miembro de la aristocracia francesa, sella su destino tragico al celebrar su cotillin en el palacio de Versalles; una solterona se propone seducir al hombre mas rico de Guayames, rezandole a la vez a Jesucristo y al Departamento de Hacienda para que lo exima de los impuestos. Los relatos de Ferre son a la vez divertidos y tristes, conmovedores y sensuales. Pertenecen a una larga y distinguida tradiciin de narrativa hispanoamericana.
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Citations
- Booklist, 05/01/1999, Page 1583
- Library Journal, 07/01/1999, Page 0