Has visto a Maria? (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition) Release Date: October 2, 2012| Series: Vintage Espanol La mundialmente aclamada autora de La casa en Mango Street nos brinda un relato profundamente conmovedor acerca de la pérdida, el duelo y la sanación: una fábula para adultos líricamente narrada y vívidamente ilustrada sobre una mujer que busca un gato extraviado tras la muerte de su madre. La palabra “huérfana” no parecería aplicarse a una mujer de cincuenta y tres años de edad. Sin embargo, así es exactamente cómo se siente Sandra al encontrarse sin ...
Guide to the Blue Tongue: POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series) Publication Date: March 15, 2002| Series: Illinois Poetry Series Shimmering with saturated color and heat, "Guide to the Blue Tongue" is an intoxicating sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Caliban is the monstrous native, in love with what he cannot possess, lost to his own sense of identity. In Virgil Surez's vision, the island of Caliban's imprisonment merges with the island of Cuba, where the carboneros make charcoal and sell it door-to-door by the pound, young boxers crackle with caged energy, do...
The Guns in the Closet Publication Date: October 1996stories collected over the last twenty years...
Home for a Stranger Publication Date: April 2, 1981Unclear about her true identity and age, a young Mexican girl's only memory is the orphanage where she grew up until she is taken to California for an operation on her deformed mouth. ...