Esmeralda Santiago

Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

When I was Puerto Rican

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together They refer to themselves as “las Madres,” a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties.Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest girl in her dance academy and the only Black one in a sea of petite, light-skinned, delicate swans, is seriously injured in a car accident. Tragically, her brilliant, multilingual scientist parents are both killed in the crash. Now orphaned, Luz navigates the pressures of adolescence and copes with the aftershock of a brain injury, when two new friends enter her life, Ada and Shirley. Luz’s days are consumed with aches and pains, and her memory of the accident is wiped clean, but she suffers spells that send her mind to times and places she can’t share with others. In 2017, in the Bronx, Luz’s adult daughter, Marysol, wishes she better understood her. But how can she when her mother barely remembers her own life? To help, Ada and Shirley’s daughter, Graciela, suggests a vacation in Puerto Rico for the extended group, as an opportunity for Luz to unearth long-buried memories and for Marysol to learn more about her mother’s early life. But despite all their careful planning, two hurricanes, back-to-back, disrupt their homecoming, and a secret is revealed that blows their lives wide open. In a voice that sings with warmth, humor, friendship, and pride, celebrated author Esmeralda Santiago unspools a story of women’s sexuality, shame, disability, and love within a community rocked by disaster.

A novel

Las Madres

Follows the author from the Brooklyn barrios to Harvard as she overcomes an overprotective mother, siblings who scoff at her attempts to learn "Eastern Standard England," a whirlwind marriage, and her search for cultural identity

Almost a Woman

As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in handsome twin brothers Ramon and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. Marrying Ramon at the age of eighteen, she travels across the ocean to Hacienda los Gemelos, a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited. But soon the Civil War erupts in the United States, and Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own in this epic novel of love, discovery and adventure.

Conquistadora

Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through this autobiography in the story of a young girl who leaves Puerto Rico for New York's tenements.

When I Was Puerto Rican

Cuando era Puertorriquena/When I was puertorican

Joie Davidow

En esta espléndida extravagancia literaria, veinticino de los más conocidos escritores latinos nos agradan y nos conmueven con sus recuerdos navideños. El cuento de Julia Álvarez nos enseña como Santicló libró de opresión política a su querido tío. Junot Díaz recuerda su inquieta asimilación a un nuevo país al pasar su primera Navidad en los Estados Unidos. Sandra Cisneros sigue con las memorias nostálgicas de las sabrosuras navideñas que preparó su papá. Las Christmas nos trae verdaderas historias de las muy distintas tradiciones de varios escritores--historias que vivamente captan el orgullo, el dolor, la alegría, y la pena que siempre acompañan las Navidades en todas las Américas. Magníficamente ilustrado y adornado con canciones y recetas--desde tamales dulces tradicionales hasta asopao puertorriqueño--para unas fiestas inolvidables. Un sabroso y alentador regalo de Navidad. Con 26 ilustraciones de José Ortega

Las Christmas

"Lyrical [and] haunting, América’s liberating epiphany will have readers . . . on their feet and cheering." — Washington Post Deftly written and fiercely resilient, América’s Dream explores the ever-shifting definition of what it means to be American and exemplifies the spirit of every immigrant who has dared to realize the American dream. América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don’t look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester, New York, she takes it as a sign to finally make the escape she's been longing for. Yet, even as América revels in the comparative luxury of her new life—daring to care about a man other than Correa—she is faced with the disquieting realization that no matter what she does, she can never really escape her past.

Novel, A

America's Dream

For use in schools and libraries only. The story of a young girl who leaves Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.

Cuando Era Puertorriquena

Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to elope into the spell of an exotic love affair. At the heart of the story is Esmeralda's relationship with "the Turk," a passion that gradually becomes a prison out of which she must emerge to become herself. The expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage that made Esmeralda's first two books so successful are on full display again in The Turkish Lover.

A Memoir

The Turkish Lover

Esmeralda finalmente se desprende y supera la intensa lucha con so madre sólo para caer subyugada por Ulvi, un sofisticado hombre turco mucho mayor que ella. Así descubre que la pasión amorosa también puede convertirse en una prisión. Su viaje de liberación y descubrimiento personal es atrevido, y conduce hasta su triunfante graduación de Harvard.--Desde la descripción de la editorial.

El amante turco

América Gonzales es empleada de un hotel en una isla en la costa de Puerto Rico, donde limpia los cuartos de extranjeros ricos que miran de reojo. Su madre alcohólica le tiene resentimiento...su novio Correa, quien es casado le pega...y su hija de catorce años piensa que su vida seria mejor en cualquier otro lugar menos donde esté America.Asi que cuando le ofrecen la oportunidad de trabajar como criada y niñera para una familia en el municipio de Weschester, Nueva York, America cree que ha encontrado una puerta de escape. Pero al mismo tiempo en que disfruta del lujo relativo de su nueva vida atreviéndose incluso a querer a otro hombre que no sea Correa, América tiene que luchar contra la constante sensación de que nunca podra escapar su pasado, no importa lo que haga.

Novela, Una

El Sueno de America

En su nueva memoria, la clamada autora de Cuando era puertorriqueña continua su cautivante crónica describiendo su salida de los barrios de Brooklyn a los teatros de Manhattan. «Negi», como cariñosamente la llama su familia, deja Macún, un campo de Puerto Rico, en 1961 para vivir en un apartamento de tres habitaciones en un proyecto de viviendas, con siete hermanas y hermanos pequeños, una abuela preguntona, y una mama estricta que no la dejaba salir con muchachos. A los trece años, Negi añora su propia cama, privacidad, y una vida con su padre, quien permanece en Puerto Rico con su nueva esposa. Mientras traduce para Mami en la oficina del Welfare por la mañana, hace el papel de Cleopatra en el prestigioso Performing Arts High School de Nueva York por las tardes, y baila salsa toda la noches, Negi ansia lograr un equilibrio entre ser norteamericana y ser puertorriqueña. Cuando desafía a su madre al salir en una serie de graciosísimas citas, Negi descubre que la independencia trae consigo sus propios retos. Una conmovedora historia universal sobre la llegada a la mayoría de edad, a la vez que una valiente y sincera historia de inmigrantes, Casi una mujer es el triunfal camino de Santiago a hacerse mujer. Reseña: «Una historia universal, familiar para miles de inmigrantes a este país, pero transformada en algo especial por la sencillez y honestidad de Santiago». The Miami Herald Traducción de Nina Torres-Vidal

Casi una Mujer

Puerto Rico 1844. Ana år gamle har oppfylt drømmen sin og fulgt i sine forfedres fotspor fra Spania til Karibien. Hun har overtalt ektemannen Ramón og tvillingbroren hans, Inocente, til å flytte til en avsidesliggende sukkerplantasje brødrene har arvet. Ana er kompromissløs og trosser ekstrem hete, sykdom og isolasjon for å drive plantasjen. Men da den amerikanske borgerkrigen bryter ut i 1861, trues både levebrødet og livet hennes av dem hun er avhengig av: slavene. Ana er villig til å ofre nesten alt for det eneste stedet hun har følt seg hjemme. Det vil snart vise seg om det er nok. Et intenst og fengslende fortellerdrama satt på et sted der lidenskap og ondskap kolliderer. Esmeralda Santiago ble født i San Juan, Puerto Rico, og flyttet til New York da hun var 13 år, sammen med moren og syv yngre søsken. Hun har tidligere skrevet bestselgerne When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman, The Turkish Lover og Américas Dream.

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