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The
2004 Award
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Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| The
celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an
extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational
story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave
of humour, passion, and poignancy - the very stuff of life. Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl, makers. The striped caramelo rebozo is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip - a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels - from Chicago to "the other side": Mexico City. It is there each year, that Lala hears her family's stories, separating the truth from the "healthy lies" that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. We travel from the Mexico City that was the "Paris of the New World" to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties - and, finally, to Lala's own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas. Caramelo is a romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined - vivid, funny, intimate and historical. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Cisneros is the author of numerous books, including a children's book, Hairs / Pelitos. She lives in the southwest of America. |
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