During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped (or caramelo) shawl has come into Lala's possession, in a multi-generational saga of a Mexican-American family. (General Fiction)
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«Caramelo es una epopeya tradicional, alocada, cómica y maravillosa sobre los inmigrantes mexicanos narrada por una curiosa niña que es poseedora de una sabiduría de abuela. Comenzando por la carretera 66, ésta es una versión salsificada de la odisea de la familia Joad, que realiza un viaje de ida y vuelta en zigzag desde Chicago hasta la Ciudad de México. Todo en ella es acerca de la vida y de lo que significa trabajar honradamente. Es un hermoso relato sobre todos los inmigrantes que se encuentran entre el aquí y el allá».
—Studs Terkel, autor de Will the Circle be Unbroken?
«Los escritores revelan secretos y al hacerlo, reafirman las verdades de nuestras vidas, la fuerza del amor, el prodigio de la fortaleza y el poder de las
generaciones. En Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros hace resonar mi sangre con su canto. Sus palabras son dulces y satisfacen, no por lo azucaradas sino porque son tan sustanciosas como la carne sobre el hueso. Conozco bien el tipo de familia que describe: gente que ama y que odia con toda el alma, que lucha y se reinventa con cada nueva generación. Cisneros les ha hecho justicia sobre la página; nos los ofrece íntegros».
—Dorothy Allison, autora de Bastard Out of Carolina
«Sandra Cisneros es como una abeja que extrae miel de flores antiguas. Y Caramelo es como un caramelo mexicano que chupas despacito, saboreándolo debajo de la lengua durante horas; sin embargo, nunca es pegajoso, nunca es empalagoso ni sentimental. Cisneros posee la habilidad más difícil: permitir imaginarnos aquello que nunca existió».
—Elena Poniatowska, autora de Hasta no verte, Jesús mío
«Éste es un tren lleno de gente, un tren de nunca parar que va y viene entre México y los Estados Unidos, a través de las fronteras de la tierra y del tiempo: lleno de voces, lleno de música, hecho de memoria, haciendo vida».
—Eduardo Galeano, autor de Memoria del fuego
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954. Internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Cisneros is the author of the novels The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, a collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek, a book of poetry Loose Woman, and a children's book Hairs/Pelitos. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
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