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A delightful and insightful bi-lingual collection of short stories covering a wide array of cultures and eliciting an even wider range of emotions. The Spanish and English versions of each story are printed side-by-side on opposite pages, making this an excellent tool for learning as well as good reading in either language.
"Dreams.../Sueños..." is a compilation of stories about life from different perspectives. It is a doorway to the 21st century where discovery is magical, even fantasic, and yet it is grounded in a reality that has an edge. Bevin takes the reader on journeys that transit between dimensions, juxtaposing the seen and the unseen, the mundane and the miraculous. Nonpolitical but with a message, irreligious yet full of spirit, the stories express themselves in many voices, conflating race, gender, age, rage, ecstasy, and resignation. Her overriding mark of style is her humor | |  | | Havana Split
As a teenaged girl, Lara Canedo was torn from her roots when she was compelled to leave her native Havana as one of thousands of Cuban refugees in the late 1960s. Lara now finds herself returning home--but to a dilapidated capital that no longer resembles the vibrant metropolis she left behind so long ago.
This is a story of coming home: The unsuspected secrets Lara uncovers about her extended family...The secrets that she herself reveals to long-missed friends and acquaintances... And the culture shock that, ironically, she experiences in confronting her own sadly changed native land. In polished, meditative prose, without ever descending into polemics, "Havana Split" dispassionately lays open the repression and homophobia of the Castro regime, with its strange mixture of machismo and "revoluntionary morality." At the same time, however, it shows us a disenchanted wo | |  | | Papaya Suite
"Papaya Suite" is a book about a woman's adventures from adolescent self-discovery to the self-acknowledgment of adulthood. Its hero, Celeste, personifies the headstrong young adult who follows her dreams, ignoring failures and building on successes -- in essence, almost romping through life. It is a light-hearted accounting of a young woman growing up during the early years of the Cuban revolution, who is sent to Spain where her exploration of life begins in earnest and continues to expand when she moves to the United States.
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| |  | | Tina Springs into Summer / Tina se lanza al verano
A novel geared to grades 3-6 in diary form presented bilingually (English/Spanish). Tina, the main character and diary-writer is 11 years old and of mixed heritage living in urban America.
font size="2" face="Verdana">Targeted at the middle grades, the story centers around Tina, an 11-year-old girl who lives in a multi-ethnic, middle-class city neighborhood. She is biracial and bilingual, and her friends come from a mix of cultures found in many modern urban communities. The story itself reflects the situation of the students who read it. The subject matter is current, timely and occasionally humorous, and should hol |
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