Bibliograph

Dreaming in Cuban, a novel, Cristina García

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Dreaming in Cuban, a novel, Cristina García

Language

eng

Illustrations

genealogical tables

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Dreaming in Cuban

Oclc number

27640140

Responsibility statement

Cristina García

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense charm about women and politics, women and witchcraft, women and their men

Table Of Contents

Ocean blue -- Going South -- The house on Palmas street -- Celia's letters: 1935-1940 -- A grove of lemons -- The fire between them -- Celia's letters: 1942-1949 -- The meaning of shells -- Enough attitude -- Baskets of water -- Celia's letters: 1950-1955 -- A matrix light -- God's will -- Daughters of Chango -- Celia's letters: 1956-1958 -- Six days in April -- Celia's letters: 1959

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