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Una obra epica sobre los linajes de dos familias, escrita por la autora de La casa de la laguna.
"Mama nacio en Guayames el 6 de enero de 1901. Mi abuelo, Alvaro Rivas de Santillana, estaba convencido de que los Reyes Magos se la habian traido como obsequio, pero abuela Valeria decia que Clarissa habia nacido por culpa de las lluvias."
Asi comienza uno de los muchos cuentos de Vecindarios Excentricos, donde las historias de hombres y mujeres cuyos amores y perdidas coincidieron con la desaparicion de la sociedad colonial de la isla y con el nacimiento de una clase de nuevos ricos, se...

El amor y la lealtad son puestos a pueba en esta novela llena de brio y agudeza de la reconocida autora puertorriquena, Rosario Ferre, autora de "La casa de la laguna. Se trata de la historia de una bailarina famosa mundialmente que, en el 1917, visita a Puerto Rico en gira artistica y se enamora locamente de un atrevido revolucionario al que le dobla la edad. La imperiosa Madame ha regido su vida por la norma, 'el artista debe anteponer siempre su arte al amor.' Al enamorarse Madame, sin embargo, no solo rueda por el piso su antigua doctrina, sino que pierde el respeto de sus jivenes...

"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe's Spanish Armada in 1588," Rosario Ferre writes in the title poem of Language Duel; "Language carries with it all their fire and power." Ferre explores this tension throughout this explosive collection, which plays with the sensual differences between the languages and lays bare many of the complications facing an increasingly bilingual America.
In these poems, Miami is celebrated as a modern Tower of Babel and a place where the layers of history are particularly palpable. Wave after wave of...

-Hypnotic... should not be missed.---Lucy Stark, Voices from the Gaps
Originally published in Spanish under the title Maldito Amor (-Cursed Love-), Sweet Diamond Dust introduced American readers to a voice that is by turns lyrical and wickedly satiric. A finalist for the National Book Award with her 1995 novel, The House on the Lagoon, Ferre here uses family history as a metaphor for the class struggles and political evolution of Latin America and Puerto Rico in particular. The result is writing of the highest order--provocative, profound, yet delightfully...

A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimized for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. The Youngest Doll, based on a family anecdote, is a stunning literary expression of Rosario Ferre s feminist and social concerns. It is the premier story in a collection that was originally published in Spanish in 1976 as Papeles de Pandora and is now translated into English by the author. The daughter of a former governor of Puerto Rico, Ferre portrays women loosening the constraints that have bound them to a patriarchal culture. Anger takes...