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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution ... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In present-day Miami. Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, María is the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo's heart and broke it, inspiring him to write the Mambo Kings' biggest hit, 'Beautiful María of My Soul.' Now in her sixties, María García y Cifuentes is the lady behind the song, living as an exile in Miami. But while she left Cuba decades ago, she has never forgotten Nestor. We now see the Mambo Kings' story through María's eyes--and as...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" returns with a beautiful, mesmerizing novel of love, passion and loss--witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosperous Cuban emigre who is now a cleaning woman on New York's Upper West Side.
Author
Publisher
Novum
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Jeanette vive en Miami y lucha contra la adicción. Hija de una inmigrante cubana, está decidida a aprender más sobre su historia familiar; una historia que su madre, Carmen, no le quiere contar. Por eso toma la decisión repentina de acoger a la hija de su vecino detenido por el Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas. Carmen, por su parte, todavía lucha con el trauma de haber dejado Cuba atrás, a la vez que procesa la complicada relación...
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