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        "San Juan: Memoir of a City" conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodrí guez Juliá . No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its architecture.           
        In the allusive cityscape he recreates, Rodrí guez Juliá invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own...

A bilingual edition of a renowned work of Puerto Rican literature, Cortijo s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo is novelist Edgardo Rodriguez Julia s vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo. El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its original publication in Puerto Rico in 1983. An unparalleled Afro-Puerto Rican percussionist and bandleader, Cortijo (1928 1982) revolutionized the country s musical culture. His band, Cortijo y Su Combo, captivated Caribbean and Latin American audiences as it emerged in the mid-1950s....