The Wise Women Of Havana

Author : Jose Raul Bernardo
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060936150

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The Wise Women of Havana by Jose Raul Bernardo Pdf

Set against the exotic background of Cuba in 1938, The Wise Women of Havana is the deeply moving, lyrical, and yet earthy story of three remarkable women whose lives are suddenly intricately intertwined. When Marguita, a beautiful and voluptuous young girl, marries Lorenzo, they find their dream home in a cozy apartment in Havana. But that dream is soon shattered. Lorenzo's once-wealthy parents, now in dire need of financial help because of the Great Depression, ask the newlyweds to move into the family's crumbling mansion with them. Marguita is hardly settled with her in-laws when Lorenzo's older sister, the spinster Lolo, behaves in a shocking way toward the young couple, seriously injuring Marguita's sense of honor and causing a dangerous rift between the two. In despair, Marguita, flees to her mother, Dolores, a truly wise woman, whose love, generosity, and resourcefulness provide the glue that promises to mend the break.

Author : Jose Raul Bernardo
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062032287

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The Wise Women of Havana by Jose Raul Bernardo Pdf

Set against the exotic background of Cuba in 1938, The Wise Women of Havana is the deeply moving, lyrical, and yet earthy story of three remarkable women whose lives are suddenly intricately intertwined. When Marguita, a beautiful and voluptuous young girl, marries Lorenzo, they find their dream home in a cozy apartment in Havana. But that dream is soon shattered. Lorenzo's once-wealthy parents, now in dire need of financial help because of the Great Depression, ask the newlyweds to move into the family's crumbling mansion with them. Marguita is hardly settled with her in-laws when Lorenzo's older sister, the spinster Lolo, behaves in a shocking way toward the young couple, seriously injuring Marguita's sense of honor and causing a dangerous rift between the two. In despair, Marguita, flees to her mother, Dolores, a truly wise woman, whose love, generosity, and resourcefulness provide the glue that promises to mend the break.

Author : Jose Bernardo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0066211255

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Wise Women of Havana Spa by Jose Bernardo Pdf

Author : M. Delores Carlito
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810856808

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Cuban-American Fiction in English by M. Delores Carlito Pdf

This bibliography contains listings and annotations of all novels, anthologies, and short story collections written by the first, 1.5, and second generations of Cuban Americans. This work also contains listings and annotations of all secondary works dealing with this fiction, as well as related memoirs, autobiographies and interviews.

Author : Lisandro Perez,Uva De Aragon
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822970804

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Cuban Studies 34 by Lisandro Perez,Uva De Aragon Pdf

Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904738091

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Havana Red by Leonardo Padura Pdf

A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.

Author : Peter Melville Logan,Olakunle George,Susan Hegeman,Efraín Kristal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118779071

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The Encyclopedia of the Novel by Peter Melville Logan,Olakunle George,Susan Hegeman,Efraín Kristal Pdf

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.

Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1119 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216081234

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Ethnic American Literature by Emmanuel S. Nelson Pdf

Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature. This culturally rich encyclopedia contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling the achievements of American writers of non-European descent and highlighting the ethnic diversity of works from the colonial era to the present. The work features engaging topics like the civil rights movement, bilingualism, assimilation, and border narratives. Entries provide historical overviews of literary periods along with profiles of major authors and great works, including Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, Sherman Alexie, A Raisin in the Sun, American Born Chinese, and The House on Mango Street. The book also provides concise overviews of genres not often featured in textbooks, like the Chinese American novel, African American young adult literature, Mexican American autobiography, and Cuban American poetry.

Author : D. H. Figueredo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120995217

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Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature by D. H. Figueredo Pdf

Details the lives and works of Caribbean authors in the context of Caribbean history and culture. This encyclopedia includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries written by more than 20 expert contributors. These entries cover authors, works, genres, historical and cultural figures, themes, and various topics.

Author : Sarah Rainsford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786074003

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Our Woman in Havana by Sarah Rainsford Pdf

Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene’s Our Man in Havana, plied his trade, BBC foreign correspondent Rainsford reports on Fidel’s reshaping of a nation, and what the future holds for ordinary Cubans now that he and his brother Raul are no longer in power. Through tales of literary ghosts and forgotten reporters, believers in the revolution and dissidents, entrepreneurs optimistic about the new Cuba and the disillusioned still looking for a way out, Our Woman in Havana paints an enthralling picture of this enigmatic country as it enters a new era.

Author : Pedro Pérez Sarduy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467005081

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The Maids of Havana by Pedro Pérez Sarduy Pdf

Normal.dotm 0 0 1 55 314 Escritor/Periodista 2 1 385 12.0 Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her friend's daughter, educated in revolutionary Cuba, leaves Havana in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, to find work as a maid in Miami A history full circle?

Author : Juan Manuel Pérez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173019112514

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Latin America by Juan Manuel Pérez Pdf

This is a general bibliography on Latin America, covering a wide variety of subjects, from pre-Columbian civilizations, to Columbus, to Castro, to the foreign debt, to pollution, ect. This work will not only be of use to the general, casual reader on Latin America, but also to the more specialized researcher. The book contains over 800 topics, with over 8,000 titles identified.

Author : Carlos Eire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471108358

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Waiting For Snow In Havana by Carlos Eire Pdf

A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015043654394

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Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0807083372

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Cubana by Ruth Behar Pdf

Until recently, the combination of a Cuban old boys' network and an ideological emphasis on "tough" writing kept fiction by Cuban women largely unknown and unread. Cubana, the U.S. version of a groundbreaking anthology of women's fiction published in Cuba in 1996, introduces these once-ignored writers to a new audience. Havana editor and author Mirta Yáñez has assembled an impressive group of sixteen stories that reveals the strength and variety of contemporary writing by Cuban women-and offers a glimpse inside Cuba during a time of both extreme economic difficulty and artistic renaissance. Many of these stories focus pointedly on economic and social conditions. Josefina de Diego's "Internal Monologue on a Corner in Havana" shows us the current crisis through the eyes and voice of a witty economist-turned-vendor who must sell her extra cigarettes. Others-Magaly Sánchez's erotic fantasy "Catalina in the Afternoons" and Mylene Fernández Pintado's psychologically deft "Anhedonia (A Story in Two Women)"-reveal a nascent Cuban feminism. The twelve-year-old narrator of Aida Bahr's "The Scent of Limes" tries to make sense of her grandparents' conservative values, her stepfather's disappearance, and her mother's fierce independence. The Cuban-American writer Achy Obejas recreates the strange dual identity of the immigrant, while avant-garde stories like the playful and savvy "The Urn and the Name (A Merry Tale)," written by Ena Lucía Portela, reveal the vitality of the experimental tradition in Cuba. And Rosa Ileana Boudet's "Potosí 11: Address Unknown" is both a romantic paean to a time of youth, passion, and revolution, and an attempt to reconcile that past with a diminished present.