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Caramelo
The celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy -- the very stuff of life.
Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo (shawl), makers. The striped caramelo rebozo is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip -- a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels -- from Chicago to "the other side": Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family's stories, separating the truth from the "healthy lies" that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. We travel from the Mexico City that was the "Paris of the New World" to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties -- and, finally, to Lala's own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas.
Caramelo is a romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major new novel from one of our country's most beloved storytellers.
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Editions
Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento, by Sandra Cisneros
Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, NY
January, 1, 2002.
ISBN: 0679435549
hardcover, English, 1st ed.
Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento, by Sandra Cisneros
HarperAudio; Unabridged edition Recorded Books (distributor), Prince Frederick, MD
October, 1, 2002.
ISBN: 0060515910
sound recording, read by the author
Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento (En Espa?ol), by Sandra Cisneros, translated by Liliana Valenzuela
Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, NY
October, 1, 2002.
ISBN: 0375415092
hardcover, Primera ed.
Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento, by Sandra Cisneros
Sound Library; Unabridged edition
October, 1, 2002.
ISBN: 0792727088
sound recording, read by the author
Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento, by Sandra Cisneros
Sound Library; Unabridged edition
November, 1, 2002.
ISBN: 0792727355
sound recording, read by the author
Caramelo, or, Puro cuento, by Sandra Cisneros
Thorndike Press, Waterville, ME
January, 1, 2003.
ISBN: 0786251387
large print
Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento (En Espa?ol), by Sandra Cisneros, translated by Liliana Valenzuela
Thorndike Press; 1 edition
March, 2, 2003.
ISBN: 0786251247
Large print
Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento, by Sandra Cisneros
Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, NY
March, 10, 2003.
ISBN: 1400041503
hardcover, 2003 printing, Today Show Book Club edition (March 10, 2003)
Caramelo, or, Puro cuento, by Sandra Cisneros
Tandem Library
September, 1, 2003.
ISBN: 1417718803
unknown binding
Caramelo, or, Puro cuento, by Sandra Cisneros
Tandem Library
September, 1, 2003.
ISBN: 141772496X
unknown binding
Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento, by Sandra Cisneros
Vintage; Reprint edition, New York City, NY
September, 9, 2003.
ISBN: 0679742581
trade paperback
Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento (En Espa?ol), by Sandra Cisneros, translated by Liliana Valenzuela
Vintage, New York City, NY
September, 9, 2003.
ISBN: 1400030994
trade paperback