Dreaming in Cuban
by Cristina Garcia
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Author: Cristina GarciaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-02-10
ISBN: 0345381432
Number of pages: 245
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: "Celia closes her eyes and imagines it drifting as a firefly through the darkened seas, imagines its slow extinguishing."
Summary: 3 Stars
A lyrical,haunting,confusing novel of lost love and heartache. Garcia has a way with words that can make the readers heart race. She is poetic and mystical and heartbreakingly sad. Her characters are all flawed and this novel flows well in an often confusing daze from person to person at different time periods through Cuba's revolutionary beginning in the seventies. It begins with the life of Celia Almeida del Pinto. Her clearest memory as a child is when her mother abandons her and puts her on a train going to her aunt's and never looks back. This abandonment and sadness creates the theme of the novel which is parelled in the loss of a Cuba that once was before the revolution. The illusion of loss and inability to cope with it literally drives some of the characters crazy. Each copes with it in a different way including moving as far away as possible. Interesting characters, moving prose, vivid imagery are the strengths of this novel. Garcia also manages to make the reader struggle with the novels time periods and characters jumping back and forth, sometimes not really making sense. In all an enjoyable, readable novel with flaws..much like her characters
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