Stories of Little Women & Grown-Up Girls - Hardcover

Rivera-Valdes, Sonia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0972561161 ISBN 13: 9780972561167

Verlag: Editorial Campana, 2007

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Book by Sonia RiveraValds

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Stories of Little Women and Grown-up Girls is a wise book in which its protagonists, even in the most adverse of circumstances, whether gently or going against social conventions, actively participate in the creation of an alternative culture that is mestiza, feminist and cosmopolitan, as well as committed to a transformation of patriarchal society and the myths that it sustains about women.Through agile and precise language—tender at times, scrawny when necessary—erotism, and sometimes ironic and extremely bitter humor in some stories, take us through well elaborated plots with unpredictable endings that are impossible to put aside once we have started to read them.The book contains ten short stories in which the protagonists differ in age, nationality, the problems they face, and personality, but share several fundamental characteristics: they are the subjects of their destinies, not the objects, even when sometimes this decision comes from their unconscious and is expressed in the honesty and bravery with which they face life. The second characteristic that unites them is the way in which they reflect about themselves and their circumstances, which are sometimes heartwrenching. They are not sorry for themselves and do not feel guilty for their mistakes and misadventures that could hold them back from acting and making the decisions they need to make in order to change the situation that burdens them. They do what they have to do without sentimentalism and without lurking in their pain. They act with a sincerity that drives the reader to feel a profound empathy for these characters.Stories of Little Women and Grown-up Girls reads in one sitting, as confirmed by its readers. Nonetheless, that apparent clarity is only the entrance gate to subtexts full of psychological significance, sociological, political, symbolic, of deconstruction of patriarchal patterns and where the profound motives of human conduct are explored.

Nota de la solapa:

Martirio Fuentes writes a revealing letter to Marta Veneranda, and what follows is a weaving together of details and clues...a plate of pasta, the hidden seed of a lemon, a piece of bluing slowly dissolving in water, New York City and Havana beating in the background... Following the success of her bestselling first book, The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda, Sonia Rivera-Valdés continues the saga with Stories of Little Women and Grown-up Girls . In these masterful tales, characters and narrations intertwine and whirl. The tragic death of Ana, a writer’s sexual adventures in Cuba, the secret amorous encounters of political prisoners pulled apart by confession and betrayal and the erotic incidents involving a music professor and her student’s fiancee.Love, death, betrayal and sex...these stories rise and fall on waves of humor and surprise, and drop us deep into lives that maintain their centers and strength, regardless of crumbling worlds around them.Sonia Rivera Valdés was born in Cuba. Her book The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda was awarded the prestigious Casa de las Américas Award in Havana in 1997. She has published short stories and essays in the United States, Latin America and Europe. She currently resides in New York, where she is a professor at York College."From the best selling, award -winning Cuban writer, comes a new collection of powerful, sensual, and mesmerizing tales. Following the successful strategy of her famous The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda (Casa de Las Americas Prize, 1997), Sonia Rivera-Valdés continues the saga with Stories of Little Women and Grown-up Girls, where love, death, sex, and betrayal intersect in a series of masterful tales impossible to put down.Sonia Rivera Valdés is a transgressor in different spheres, and has found a strange internal peace in her writing which incessantly, and sheltered by the parasol of tolerance, is at the service of an infinite number of noble causes. Her minimalist style speaks about extremely crude realities in a clear and inimitable language. This is a captivating, unforgettable book." --Nancy Morejón, Cuba's National Prize for Literature, 2001 "Sonia Rivera-Valdés has an uncannily intense way of inhabiting the souls of her characters. Their predicaments are usually irresolvable, but then so is life, and it is her allegiance to the texture of life that makes her work so remarkably vivid. These bitterly exuberant, sweetly regretful, very sad and fierce and beautiful stories will haunt you for a long time." --Paul Russell, author of War Against the Animals

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• Verlag: Editorial Campana
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0972561161
• ISBN 13: 9780972561167
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 223