{"product_id":"dreaming-in-cuban-9780345381439","title":"Dreaming in Cuban","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Impressive . . . [Cristina García's] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the 'sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond, ' as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.\"--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cristina García's acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country's revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. \u003ci\u003eDreaming in Cuban\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel's original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDreaming in Cuban\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cristina García\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345381439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e44735 \/ Dreaming in Cuban\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e 1992 National Book Awards Nominee - Fiction","brand":"Ripon Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44148504854573,"sku":"9780345381439","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/0501\/1245\/files\/img_b320c2a6-2cd6-41d6-9d16-f9474bcf2dd4.jpg?v=1757225517","url":"https:\/\/riponbookstore.com\/products\/dreaming-in-cuban-9780345381439","provider":"Ripon Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}