{"product_id":"dreaming-in-cuban-9780345381439","title":"Dreaming in Cuban","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Impressive . . .  Cristina Garc a'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 Mor .\"--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cristina Garc a'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 Garc a M rquez\" (\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\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDreaming in Cuban\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, Garc a just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCristina García\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eKing of Cuba, \u003c\/i\u003e and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eBerliners Who\u003c\/i\u003e. She has published poetry, books for young readers, and edited anthologies on Latino\/a literature. Her work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and an NEA grant, among others. García has taught at universities nationwide and lives in the San Francisco Bay area.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613333688594,"sku":"9780345381439","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24ff2827-0fd8-417d-9e4b-2ec218e58fe5.jpg?v=1732396296","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dreaming-in-cuban-9780345381439","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}