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House on the Lagoon
Rosario Ferre
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Beschreibung
Finalist for the National Book Award: ';A family saga in the manner of Gabriel Garca Mrquez,' set in Puerto Rico, from an extraordinary storyteller (The New York Times Book Review). This riveting, multigenerational epic tells the story of two families and the history of Puerto Rico through the eyes of Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintn Mendizabal. Isabel attempts to immortalize their now-united familiesand, by extension, their homelandin a book. The tale that unfolds in her writing has layers upon layers, exploring the nature of love, marriage, family, and Puerto Rico itself. Weaving the intimate with the expansive on a teeming stage, Ferre crafts a revealing self-portrait of a man and a woman, two fiercely independent people searching for meaning and identity. As Isabel declares: ';Nothing is true, nothing is false, everything is the color of the glass you're looking through.' A book about freeing oneself from societal and cultural constraints,The House on the Lagoonalso grapples with bigger issues of life, death, poverty, and racism. Mythological in its breadth and scope, this is a masterwork from an extraordinary storyteller.
