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Rosario Ferre Sweet Diamond Dust (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Sweet Diamond Dust : and Other Stories
- Publication Name
- Sweet Diamond Dust
- Title
- Sweet Diamond Dust
- Subtitle
- And Other Stories
- Translator
- Rosario Ferre
- Contributor
- Rosario Ferre (Preface by)
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0452277485
- EAN
- 9780452277489
- ISBN
- 9780452277489
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 01/10/1996
- Release Year
- 1996
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 6.4 Oz
- Original Language
- Spanish
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Topic
- Hispanic & Latino, Family Life, Short Stories (Single Author)
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Rosario Ferre uses family history as a metaphor for the class struggles and political evolution of Latin America and Puerto Rico in this highly provacative, profound, and delightfully readable collection of stories. Originally published in Spanish under the title Maldito Amor ("Cursed Love"), Sweet Diamond Dust introduced American readers to a voice that is by turns lyrical and wickedly satiric. In this tale the De La Valle family's secrets, ambitions, and passions, interwoven with the fate of the local sugar mill, are recounted by various relatives, friends, and servants. As the characters struggle under the burden of privilege, the story, permeated with haunting echoes of Puerto Rico's own turbulent history, becomes a splendid allegory for a nation's past. The three accompanying stories each follow the lives of the descendants of the De La Valle family, making the book a drama in four parts, raising troubling issues of race, religion, freedom, and sex, with Ferre's trademark irony and startling imagery.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0452277485
ISBN-13
9780452277489
eBay Product ID (ePID)
944754
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sweet Diamond Dust : and Other Stories
Original Language
Spanish
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Hispanic & Latino, Family Life, Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
6.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq7440.F45m3513 1996
Preface by
Ferre, Rosario
Reviews
"Lyrically voices the generation-bridging tale of the De La Valle family and their Puerto Rican sugar mill through the eyes and souls of several family members, longtime servants and dear friends... With a majestic plot, nestled in the hills of those Guamani Mountains, along with the De La Valle family and their sugar mill, Ferré exposes the secrets of a family and the glories of a country under pressure from American business threats. All at once, Sweet Diamond Dust explores the life of a family and of a business, through the generations and into our modern world."-- Lucy Stark, Voices from the Gaps "[Ferre] is a perfect embodiment of the Janus-like identity Puerto Rico emanates today, a mythical creature with two heads set back to back, impossibly 'loyal to two fatherlands,' as the memorialist Bernardo Vega once put it."--Ilan Stavans, World Literature Today, "Lyrically voices the generation-bridging tale of the De La Valle family and their Puerto Rican sugar mill through the eyes and souls of several family members, longtime servants and dear friends... With a majestic plot, nestled in the hills of those Guamani Mountains, along with the De La Valle family and their sugar mill, Ferr exposes the secrets of a family and the glories of a country under pressure from American business threats. All at once, Sweet Diamond Dust explores the life of a family and of a business, through the generations and into our modern world."-- Lucy Stark, Voices from the Gaps "[Ferre] is a perfect embodiment of the Janus-like identity Puerto Rico emanates today, a mythical creature with two heads set back to back, impossibly 'loyal to two fatherlands,' as the memorialist Bernardo Vega once put it."--Ilan Stavans, World Literature Today
Lccn
96-026349
Dewey Decimal
863
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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