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"Sweet Diamond Dust" and Other Stories

by RosarioFerre (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $13.35
Synopsis

Originally published in Spanish under the title Maldito amor ( Cursed Love ), Rosario Ferre's 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 readable.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: G P Putnam's Sons
Published: 31 Oct 1996
ISBN 10: 0452277485
ISBN 13: 9780452277489

Media Reviews
Lyrically voices the generation-bridging tale of the De La Valle family and their Puerto Rican sugar mill through the eyes and souls of several family members, longtime servants and dear friends... With a majestic plot, nestled in the hills of those Guamani Mountains, along with the De La Valle family and their sugar mill, Ferr exposes the secrets of a family and the glories of a country under pressure from American business threats. All at once, Sweet Diamond Dust explores the life of a family and of a business, through the generations and into our modern world. --Lucy Stark, Voices from the Gaps

[Ferre] is a perfect embodiment of the Janus-like identity Puerto Rico emanates today, a mythical creature with two heads set back to back, impossibly 'loyal to two fatherlands, ' as the memorialist Bernardo Vega once put it. --Ilan Stavans, World Literature Today

Author Bio
Rosario Ferre is Puerto Rico's leading woman of letters, with several books of poetry, short fiction, biography, and feminist criticism to her credit. She lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.