Cuando Era Puertorriqueña / When I Was Puerto Rican Contributor(s): Santiago, Esmeralda (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679756779 ISBN-13: 9780679756774 Publisher: Vintage Espanol
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Language: Spanish Published: October 1994 Annotation: Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success. |
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BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Latin America - Central America - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 94011467 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" L (0.50 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Catalog Heading - Biographies - Curriculum Strand - Biographies - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Locality - New York, N.Y. |
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Publisher Description: La historia de Esmeralda Santiago comienza en la parte rural de Puerto Rico, donde sus padres y siete hermanos, en continuas luchas los unos con los otros, viv an una vida alborotada pero llena de amor y ternura. De ni a, Esmeralda aprendi a apreciar c mo se come una guayaba, a distinguir la canci n del coqu , a identificar los ingredientes en las morcillas y a ayudar a que el alma de un beb muerto subiera al Cielo. Pero precisamente cuando Esmeralda parec a haberlo aprendido todo sobre su cultura, la llevaron a Nueva York, donde las reglas --y el idioma-- eran no s lo diferentes, sino tambi n desconcertantes. C mo Esmeralda super la adversidad, se gan entrada a la Performing Arts High School y despu s continu a Harvard, de donde se gradu con altos honores, es el relato de la tremenda trayectoria de una mujer verdaderamente extraordinaria. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of The Best Memoirs of a Generation (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard. |
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