Eccentric Neighborhoods is a an attempt to lay bare the psychological conflicts that determine the relationships between mothers and daughters and the story of Puerto Rico's transformation, from the beginning of the century, into a spearhead of the Caribbean.

Eccentric Neighborhood

Literature & Fiction

Rosario Ferré

Contemporary

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

In a Spanish-language edition of Sweet Diamond Dust, the author explores the history of political and cultural struggle in her native Puerto Rico through the story of one fractious family of aristocrats. Original. 17,500 first printing.

Maldito amor y otros cuentos

United States

Vintage Espanol

Rosario Ferré is one of the most original writers of Latin America. Here she explores the conflicts between classes and the political evolution of her native Puerto Rico through the history of a family, the aristocratic and militant De la Valle family, and its fight against the domination and control of the neighboring sugar factory.

Damned Love and Other Stories (Spanish Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Thorndike Press

Esta antología incluye textos representativos de los tres tiempos en que la escritora Rosario Ferré divide su obra. El primero abarca los cuentos fantásticos y de protesta feminista de sus libros Papeles de Pandora y Maldito Amor, en los que experimenta con el lenguaje popular puertorriqueño. El segundo periódo es el de las novelas largas La Casa de la laguna, Vecindarios excéntricos y Vuelo de Cisne. Los libros de ensayos corresponden al tercer momento de sus publicaciones. En ellos debate las posibilidades de la escritura femenina y sus estéticas al cuestionar la hegemonía patriarcal en las sociedades y las letras latinoamericanas.

Antologia Personal Rosario Ferre (Spanish Edition)

La Editorial, Universidad de Puerto Rico

A tale of two dynasties whose fortunes are linked to the fate of an emerging nation Elvira Vernet narratesEccentric Neighborhoods as she attempts to solve the mystery of who her parents truly are. Her mother, the beautiful and aristocratic Clarissa Rivas de Santillana, was born into a rarefied world of privilege, one of five daughters on the family’s sugar plantation. Elvira’s father, Aurelio Vernet, and his three brothers and two sisters were raised by Santiago, a Cuban immigrant who ruled his family with an iron hand. As Puerto Rico struggles for independence - and Aurelio takes his place among the powerful political gentry - a legacy of violence, infidelity, faith, and sacrifice is born. Set against the backdrop of a country coming of age, Eccentric Neighborhoods is a lush, transcendent novel, a family saga about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children. In this magnificent follow-up toThe House on the Lagoon, Rosario Ferré delivers a work of historical fiction influenced by magical realism and infused with forgiveness and love.

Eccentric Neighborhoods

Genre Fiction

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Finalist for the National Book Award: A breathtaking saga from Puerto Rico's greatest literary voice This riveting, multigenerational epic tells the story of two families and the history of Puerto Rico through the eyes of Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintn Mendizabal. Isabel attempts to immortalize their now-united families - and, by extension, their homeland - in a book. The tale that unfolds in her writing has layers upon layers, exploring the nature of love, marriage, family, and Puerto Rico itself. Weaving the intimate with the expansive on a teeming stage, Ferre crafts a revealing self-portrait of a man and a woman, two fiercely independent people searching for meaning and identity. As Isabel declares: "Nothing is true, nothing is false, everything is the color of the glass you're looking through." A book about freeing oneself from societal and cultural constraints, The House on the Lagoon also grapples with bigger issues of life, death, poverty, and racism. Mythological in its breadth and scope, this is a masterwork from an extraordinary storyteller.

House on the Lagoon, The

Literary

Available in Spanish for the first time in the United States.From Rosario Ferré (nominated for the National Book Award for The House on the Lagoon), her first work of fiction, long out of print in any edition, in the original Spanish and including a previously unpublished story and two poems.Papeles de Pandora contains the stories that first brought Rosario Ferré to the attention of Spanish-language readers throughout the world. In this collection, Ferré introduces her major theme: the position of women in a fast-changing but still patriarchal culture. In "La muñeca menor"  ("The Youngest Doll"), a maiden aunt uses her skill at making honey-filled dolls to get revenge. "La bella durmiente" ("The Sleeping Beauty"), recounts the brief life of a young dancer through letters and newspaper clippings that reveal much more than they say. And in "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" ("When Women Love Men"), a society lady and a prostitute form a startling alliance after the death of the man they both loved.  Richly imagined, elegantly written, Ferré's stories are early proof of her stature among contemporary Latin American writers.

Papeles De Pandora

Bilingual Review Pr

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