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...

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...

-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...