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The Sugar Island

By Ivonne Lamazares

The Sugar Island

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Description
Ivonne Lamazares’s distinguished debut novel is "at once a deeply personal and worldly tale . . . a wonderful amalgamation of culture, politics, and love" (Philadelphia Weekly). With economical prose and a clear-eyed vision, Lamazares evokes lives full of hope but fraught with obstacles in this story of a mother and daughter in 1960s Cuba. The story is told in the brave, tough voice of Tanya, a girl at odds with her mother and with the rapidly changing world around her. In the wake of Castro’s revolution, Tanya's mother -- passionate and unreliable -- is determined to leave Cuba at all costs and to take her reluctant daughter with her. THE SUGAR ISLAND presents their embattled relationship against the backdrop of a country in conflict with itself, where the old world chafes against the new and where a parent’s desperate grab for freedom has dire consequences for her child.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
218
Release Date:
2001-10-05
Publication Date:
2001-10-05
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
061815454X
ISBN13:
9780618154548
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
268 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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