{"product_id":"dreaming-in-cuban-cristina-garc-a-paperback","title":"Dreaming in Cuban -- Cristina García, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\"Impressive . . . [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.\"--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eDreaming in Cuban\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel's original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDreaming in Cuban\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e \"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.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cristina García\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2\/10\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.9\" H x 5.1\" L x 0.6\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780345381439\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51739769078059,"sku":"9780345381439","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780345381439.jpg?v=1774843775","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/dreaming-in-cuban-cristina-garc-a-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}