![]() ![]() Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major novel from one of our country's most beloved storytellers. 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. ![]() We travel from the Mexico City that was the "Paris of the New World" to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, and finally to Lala's own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas.Ĭaramelo is a vital, wise, romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family's stories, separating the truth from the "healthy lies" that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip, a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels, from Chicago to "the other side": Mexico City. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. ![]() Ahora, cada verano viajan en un coche rebosante de niños desde Chicago hasta la ciudad de México. Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl makers. La novela comienza con el viaje de la familia Reyes, un linaje de afamados reboceros que emigró al Nuevo Mundo. ![]()
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