Rosario Ferré

Caught up in his wife's efforts to write a novel about the history of their families, Quintin Mendizabal sparks a heated rivalry between Isabel and himself when they have different perspectives on the same story

The House on the Lagoon

A fictional memoir about a woman from a male-dominated family of industrialists in Puerto Rico who struggles to understand her late mother

Eccentric Neighborhoods

From the Publisher: "One of Latin America's most gifted novelists".-"Washington Post Book World". A finalist for the National Book Award for her 1995 novel, "La Casa de la Laguna", Rosario Ferre is one of Latin America's most original and important writers. In the four stories that make up "Maldito Amor" Ferre explores the history of political and cultural struggle in her native Puerto Rico.

And Other Stories

Sweet Diamond Dust

Rosario Ferre

Surveys the encounters between Europeans and the peoples of the Pacific in the age of Enlightenment.

Papeles de Pandora

A group of upper-middle-class women, mostly married to macho men, rebel against their doll-like existence or retreat into fantasy.

The Youngest Doll

Laudada como una obra centra de la literatura latinoamericana, esta novela asombrosa, de una de las más prominentes mujeres de letras de Puerto Rico, es a la vez una rebosante saga multigeneracional y una historia mágica de la isla. En una hermosa mansión con vista a la laguna de Alamares, Isabel Montfort está escribiendo la crónica de su familia. Es un relato de aventura e intriga, de inmigrantes españoles y corsos, de esclavos africanos, de política sexual y de luchas políticas, de maridos autoritarios y esposas que ingeniosamente subvierten esa autoridad. Pero Quintín Mendizábal, el marido de Isabel, ha descubierto su manuscrito y se propone contrarrestarlo con su propia versión de los hechos. Del combate entre sus historias conyugales Rosario Ferré crea una poderosa y astutamente cómica meditación sobre la manera en que construimos la verdadla de nuestra familia, la de nuestros países y la de nuestras propias vidas. La casa de la laguna es una novela llena de encanto e invención, poblada por personajes de una gran vitalidad.

La casa de la laguna

Laudada como una obra centra de la literatura latinoamericana, esta novela asombrosa, de una de las más prominentes mujeres de letras de Puerto Rico, es a la vez una rebosante saga multigeneracional y una historia mágica de la isla. En una hermosa mansión con vista a la laguna de Alamares, Isabel Montfort está escribiendo la crónica de su familia. Es un relato de aventura e intriga, de inmigrantes españoles y corsos, de esclavos africanos, de política sexual y de luchas políticas, de maridos autoritarios y esposas que ingeniosamente subvierten esa autoridad. Pero Quintín Mendizábal, el marido de Isabel, ha descubierto su manuscrito y se propone contrarrestarlo con su propia versión de los hechos. Del combate entre sus historias conyugales Rosario Ferré crea una poderosa y astutamente cómica meditación sobre la manera en que construimos la verdad—la de nuestra familia, la de nuestros países y la de nuestras propias vidas. La casa de la laguna es una novela llena de encanto e invención, poblada por personajes de una gran vitalidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Finalist for the National Book Award: “A family saga in the manner of Gabriel García Márquez,” set in Puerto Rico, from an extraordinary storyteller (The New York Times Book Review). This riveting, multigenerational epic tells the story of two families and the history of Puerto Rico through the eyes of Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintín Mendizabal. Isabel attempts to immortalize their now-united families—and, by extension, their homeland—in a book. The tale that unfolds in her writing has layers upon layers, exploring the nature of love, marriage, family, and Puerto Rico itself. Weaving the intimate with the expansive on a teeming stage, Ferré crafts a revealing self-portrait of a man and a woman, two fiercely independent people searching for meaning and identity. As Isabel declares: “Nothing is true, nothing is false, everything is the color of the glass you’re looking through.” A book about freeing oneself from societal and cultural constraints, The House on the Lagoon also grapples with bigger issues of life, death, poverty, and racism. Mythological in its breadth and scope, this is a masterwork from an extraordinary storyteller.

La casa de la laguna / The House on the Lagoon

A “colorful family saga” set against the dramatic historical backdrop of twentieth-century Puerto Rico, from an author nominated for the National Book Award (Kirkus Reviews). Elvira Vernet narrates Eccentric Neighborhoods as she attempts to solve the mystery of who her parents truly are. Her mother, the beautiful and aristocratic Clarissa Rivas de Santillana, was born into a rarefied world of privilege, one of five daughters on the family’s sugar plantation. Elvira’s father, Aurelio Vernet, and his three brothers and two sisters were raised by Santiago, a Cuban immigrant who ruled his family with an iron hand. As Puerto Rico struggles for independence—and Aurelio takes his place among the powerful political gentry—a legacy of violence, infidelity, faith, and sacrifice is born. Set against the backdrop of a country coming of age, Eccentric Neighborhoods is a lush, transcendent novel, a family saga about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children. In this magnificent follow-up to The House on the Lagoon, Rosario Ferré delivers a work of historical fiction influenced by magical realism and infused with forgiveness and love.

A Novel

A renowned Russian ballerina is stranded in Puerto Rico as a revolution tears her homeland apart—and she finds herself in the middle of another uprising In a truly multicultural story and a daring example of global fiction, Rosario Ferré uses her prodigious talents to deliver an unforgettable tale of love, politics, and the power of female expression. Based loosely on a real episode in the life of famous prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, Flight of the Swan follows Niura Federovsky as she flees Russia when revolution breaks out in 1917. Adrift in San Juan, Niura falls in love with a much younger man. Her passion for revolutionary Diamantino Márquez mirrors the turmoil of the strife-torn island, and her dance troupe soon becomes caught up in Puerto Rico’s struggle for independence. Niura’s maid and confidant, Masha, the heart and soul of the novel, is devastated by Madame’s apparent abandonment of her art. Masha tries to save her mistress from heartbreak—only to lose her own heart to a most unexpected arrival.

Flight of the Swan

A bilingual anthology of poetry presents new and previously published poems that explore the tension between the two primary languages of the Western hemisphere and examine the growing complications of a bilingual America.

Duelo de Lenguaje

Varias Autoras

Mercedes Gordillo

Marta Brunet

Hilma Contreras

Armonía Somers

Marvel Moreno

Mirta Yáñez

Mimí Díaz Lozano

Silda Cordoliani

Susy Delgado

Pilar Dughi

Mercedes Durand

María Luisa Elío

María Virginia Estenssoro

Gilda Holst

María Luisa de Luján Campos

Bertalicia Peralta

María Luisa Puga

Ivonne Recinos Aquino

Magda Zavala

Gracias al encuentro entre escritoras de distintas generaciones, se recuperan aquí veinte voces de distintos países de Latinoamérica que habían sido desplazadas por el canon literario. En palabras de Jorge Volpi, esta antología "surge para cuestionar la convicción de que conocemos los grandes cuentos del siglo XX". Esta antología se integra en Colección Vindictas, que abre la lente a una mirada plural, puesta en retrospectiva para recuperar grandes novelas escritas por mujeres que habían quedado fuera del alcance de las lectoras y los lectores a pesar de su relevancia literaria y de una vigencia asombrosa. Una nueva lectura, más empática e incluyente a estas obras, no sólo nos permitirá reivindicar el mérito de sus autoras, sino compensar nuestra deuda con la literatura escrita por mujeres.

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