La célebre autora de La casa en Mango Street, y ganadora del PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature 2019, nos ofrece una nueva y extraordinaria novela narrada en un lenguaje de una originalidad arro-lladora: es la historia de varias generaciones de una familia méxicoamericana cuyas voces crean un des-lumbrante y vivo tapiz de humor y de pasión, hecho con la esencia misma de la vida.
La abuela de Lala Reyes es descendiente de una familia de afamados reboceros. El rebozo de rayas color caramelo es el más bello de todos y aquél que llega a pertenecer a Lala, al igual que la historia familiar que éste representa. La novela comienza con el viaje anual en automóvil de los Reyes—una caravana desbordante de niños, risas y pleitos— desde Chicago hasta el «otro lado»: la Ciudad de México. Es aquí que Lala cada año escucha las historias de su familia y trata de separar la verdad de las «mentiras sanas» que han resonado de una generación a otra. Viajamos desde la Ciudad de México, que era el «París del Nuevo Mundo» a las calles llenas de música de Chicago en los albores de los locos años veinte y, finalmente, a la difícil adolescencia de Lala en la tierra no tan exactamente prometida de San Antonio, Texas.
Caramelo es una historia sabia, vital y romántica, sobre el lugar de origen, algunas veces real, algu-nas veces imaginado. Vívida, graciosa, íntima e histórica, es una obra brillante destinada a convertirse en un clásico: una nueva novela de gran importancia de una de las escritoras más queridas de nuestro país.
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From the winner of the 2018 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
Every year, Ceyala “Lala” Reyes' family—aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers—packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwind exploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished rebozo, or shawl, that has been passed down through generations of Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history, family, and love.
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Sandra Cisneros es una poeta, cuentista, novelista y ensayista cuyo trabajo explora las vidas de la clase obrera. Sus numerosos premios incluyen becas NEA tanto en poesía como en ficción, la Medalla de las Artes de Texas, la beca MacArthur, varios doctorados honorarios y premios nacionales e internacionales como el Fifth Star Award de Chicago, el PEN Center USA Literary Award y la Medalla Nacional de las Artes que el presidente Obama le otorgó en 2016. También obtuvo la beca Art of Change de la Fundación Ford y fue reconocida entre la lista The Frederick Douglass 200. En 2018, recibió el premio de literatura internacional PEN/Nabokov.
Su obra clásica, La casa en Mango Street, ha vendido más de seis millones de ejemplares, ha sido traducida a más de veinte idiomas y es lectura obligatoria en escuelas primarias, secundarias y universidades en todo el país.
Además de su obra literaria Cisneros ha fomentado las carreras de muchos escritores aspirantes y emergentes a través de sus dos organizaciones sin fines de lucro: la Fundación Macondo y la Fundación Alfredo Cisneros del Moral. También es la organizadora de Los MacArturos, el grupo de becarios latinos de la beca MacArthur que son activistas en sus comunidades. Sus trabajos literarios se conservan en Texas en las Wittliff Collections y en Texas State University.
Sandra Cisneros es ciudadana de los Estados Unidos y de México, y vive de su trabajo como escritora. Actualmente vive en San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
In Spanish/ en Espanol
Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers--packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwind exploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished "rebozo, or shawl, that has been passed down through generations of Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history, family, and love.
In Spanish/ en Español
Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers--packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on this side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwind exploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished rebozo, or shawl, that has been passed down through generations of Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history, family, and love.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
&;Joyful, fizzy.... This is one of those novels that blithely leap across the border between literary and popular fiction.&; &;The New York Times Book Review
Sandra Cisneros, the award-winning author of the highly acclaimed The House on Mango Street and several other esteemed works, has produced a stunning new novel, Caramelo. This long-anticipated novel is an all-embracing epic of family history, Mexican history, the immigrant experience, and a young Mexican-American woman&;s road to adulthood. We hope the following introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography enhance your group&;s reading of this captivating and masterful literary work.
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