Loosing My Espanish
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A heartbreaking, funny, and brilliantly inventive novel with "a narrator who erupts and disrupts the pavements of the Cuban-American experience by showing us that the most accurate, if not truthful, fact comes from the memory of the impassioned heart." --Helena Mar?a Viramontes, author of Under the Feet of Jesus
"A novel that exists in a realm where beauty and memory and longing are one." --Junot D?az, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize- winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Oscar Delossantos is about to lose his job as a teacher at a Jesuit high school in Chicago. Rather than go quietly, he embarks on a valiant last history lesson that chronicles the flight from Cuba of his makeshift extended family. Evoking the struggle between nostalgia and the realities of the Cuban Revolution with both grit and lyricism, he inspires his students with an altogether dazzling reinterpretation of the Cuban-American experience.
"A novel that exists in a realm where beauty and memory and longing are one." --Junot D?az, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize- winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Oscar Delossantos is about to lose his job as a teacher at a Jesuit high school in Chicago. Rather than go quietly, he embarks on a valiant last history lesson that chronicles the flight from Cuba of his makeshift extended family. Evoking the struggle between nostalgia and the realities of the Cuban Revolution with both grit and lyricism, he inspires his students with an altogether dazzling reinterpretation of the Cuban-American experience.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1400078148
ISBN13:9781400078141
Release Date:October 2005
Publisher:Anchor Books
Length:336 Pages
Weight:2.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Wonderful and Unusual
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
I got this book as a gift, and it sat on my shelf for nearly a year. Couldn't get into it at first, took me a couple of tires, but when I finally got into it WOW! This is a powerful, wonderful and unusual statement about idenity and loss. The lanuage is lyrical and touching, the narrator is compelling. This is one hell of a book.
A Masterpiece!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
If Marcel Proust and James Joyce were to have had a baby that they taught Spanglish it would be H G Carrillo.
Glorious
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I finished this novel three evenings ago and am still folded within it. Thank you a thousand times to the author.
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