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Original Title:	Dreaming in Cuban
ISBN:	0345381432 (ISBN13: 9780345381439)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1992)

Dreaming in Cuban

Cristina García

Paperback | Pages: 245 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 9401 Users | 677 Reviews

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Title	:	Dreaming in Cuban
Author	:	Cristina García
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 245 pages
Published	:	February 10th 1993 by Ballantine Books (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Magical Realism

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Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family story of Celia del Pino, and her husband, daughter and grandchildren, from the mid-1930s to 1980. Celia's story mirrors the magical realism of Cuba itself, a country of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. DREAMING IN CUBAN presents a unique vision and a haunting lamentation for a past that might have been.

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Actually 2 1/2 stars---Dreaming in Cuban is one of those novels that is somewhat a struggle to read. It is interesting but at the same time disjointed. Perhaps the author hopes to represent the disjointed lives of Cubans and Cuban-Americans during the Batistan government and after the Cuban Revolution by using a very disjointed narrative. I feel that method of writing isnt necessary to get the point across.The novel describes the lives of three generations of a Cuban family prior to and since

Oh, this makes the... what? 10th time now? Granted, I teach this book in one of my classes, else I probably would not have read it as often, but each time I honestly do find new points to discuss with students. More importantly, the students always bring up amazing points that have never occurred to me!It does get better each time. If I could bump my rating up a half star, I'd do so.

I've long been fascinated by Cuba. The country has a rich history with a very beautiful landscape. When I saw that this book was a must read for anyone interested in Cuba or Cuban history I absolutely knew I had to pick it up.In all honesty I was just downright dissapointed. While Garcia's writing style isn't horrible, it is still far from great in my opinion. The sentence structure is choppy and I could tell the author had trouble conveying any coherent idea. Most of the sentences in my opinion

1.5 stars because I feel bad giving just one.I simply did not enjoy this book. I just kept reading it to get to the end and not because I liked reading it. There were some paragraphs I completely skipped and a few I quite *almost* appreciated. The plot revolves around the life of three generations, from grandmother to mom and to daughter. Their story alternates Cuba and New York City as their background and we are like an audience admiring the show of their life.There are a few reasons I did not

I did my senior thesis on this book, and I loved it. For those English and Spanish speakers. The relationships Christina Garcia creates between the different generations, and the circular motions in which she presents their stories and intertwines them is like poetry. And reading it in Spanish is even more poetic...though Garcia originally tried to write the novel in Spanish, and said she could not, and ended up writing it in English, I still think the translation is beautiful. I really enjoyed

This is Cristina García's first novel. A finalist for the National Book Award, the story is set in both Cuba and the United States, moving back and forth as it tells the saga of three generations of a single family. The novel focuses particularly on the femalesCelia del Pino, her daughters Lourdes and Felicia, and her granddaughter Pilar. Family relationships are at the heart of Dreaming in Cuban, which explores how they are twisted by physical separation, politics, and lack of communication.

A lyrical,haunting,confusing novel of lost love and heartache. Garcia has a way with words that can make the readers heart race. She is poetic and mystical and heartbreakingly sad. Her characters are all flawed and this novel flows well in an often confusing daze from person to person at different time periods through Cuba's revolutionary beginning in the seventies. It begins with the life of Celia Almeida del Pinto. Her clearest memory as a child is when her mother abandons her and puts her on