“...Exploración a fondo de la cultural popular puertorriqueña... con estilo literario dinámico. Recomendada para bibliotecas y librerías.” –Rafael Ocasio, Críticas Iluminada concentró todo su esfuerzo en alcanzar la clase media, para cosechar el desprecio de sus hijos. Salvador se fijó de meta hacerse digno del respeto de una mujer que nunca se lo dio. Una joven acusada de robo revela durante un interrogatorio su pasado de niña decente, pero desorientada. Una anciana jubilada, un hombre moribundo en un callejón y una joven narcómana: tres personajes que interpretan sus vidas desde perspectivas entrecruzadas, en el contexto de un Puerto Rico social y políticamente agónico. Ante la realidad que comparten, las ónicas posibilidades son el morbo, la locura y la muerte.

Lamentos borincanos (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Delgado-Figueroa, J.

Literary

Hispanic Caribbean Press

In Spanish. Salome Marques, this novel's main character, is as calculating as she is devoid of tenderness. Yet she is devoutly religious and tolerant of a husband who humiliates her, betrays her and deprives her of personal freedom, because, after all, whoever laughs last laughs best. Or does waiting to the bitter end actually allow us to laugh at all?

Salome Rie Mejor (Spanish Edition)

Contemporary

<p>A dual language edition of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's masterpiece: set in Havana in the mid-19th century, the drama presents the obstacles to a mixed-race relationship between a son of the nobility and a woman of African ancestry. This unique version was edited and annotated by Dr. J. Delgado-Figueroa, author of "Our Father Takes and Bride" and "Lamentos Boricanos," former professor of Spanish literature and linguistics at the universities of Minnesota, Puerto Rico and South Carolina, as well as a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. This edition includes Spanish-language biographical notes, a select bibliography and an essay by Dr. Delgado-Figueroa on racism in literature, popular culture and communication media in Cuba and Puerto Rico from the sixteenth century to the present.</p>

La Cuarterona/The Quadroon: A dual language edition, Spanish/English (Spanish Edition)

Tapia Y Rivera, Alejandro

Dramas & Plays

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

After losing most of his sight, the author is forced to give up his gas guzzler to ride public buses as his main means of transportation around Columbia, capital of the state of South Carolina. He thus discovers an entire universe hitherto parallel to his, where people talk about anything to anyone regardless of the nature of the subject. Now he wishes he were also deaf. Read on: you’ll agree!

Oedipus at Columbia: What the Blind Man Heard on the Bus

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Sátira encapsulada, mordaz e iconoclasta de la cultura popular latina, la política puertorriqueña y el refranero que tergiversa los datos tratando de otorgarle racionalidad a un mundo absurdo. Los lectores modernos, con mini lapso de atención y acostumbrados a la expresión fácil y compacta, encontrarán aquí nanorrelatos que les diviertan y les exijan la interacción de su propia imaginación para ponerlos a pensar--aunque se resistan. Este almanaque, ¡no tiene santoral, porque no es el Bristol!

Almanaque parejero borincano: Nanorrelatos y dichos para dicharacheros dichosos (Spanish Edition)

<p>A young man migrates from the glorified colony of Puerto Rico to the mainland US to flee a dysfunctional domestic, intent on becoming a Catholic priest. The monastery turns out to be everything but the spiritual oasis he hoped for. When he leaves the religious life, another form of abusive, racist tyranny awaits him.</p>

La ínsula de machos torunos (Spanish Edition)

Besús—Abādi

Con tanta sinceridad: Segunda Edición (Spanish Edition)

United States

Independently published

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