"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."--Time
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. Dreaming in Cuban is "a
work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the
hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez" (The New York
Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel's
original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the
author.
Praise for Dreaming in Cuban
"Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the
supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush."--San Francisco
Chronicle
"Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of
these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose."--The Washington
Post
"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."--The Denver Post
