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The upper-middle-class women in The Youngest Doll, mostly married to macho men, rebel against their doll-like existence or retreat into fantasy, those without money or the right skin color are even more oppressed. In terms of power and influence, these women stand in the same relation to men as Puerto Rico itself does to the United States, and Ferr  stretches artistic boundaries in writing about their situation. The stories, moving from the realistic to the nightmarish, are deeply, felt, full of irony and black humor, often experimental in form. The imagery is striking: an architect dreams about a beautiful bridge that would open and close its arches like alligators making love; a Mercedes Benz shines in the dark like a chromium rhinoceros. One story, The Sleeping Beauty, is a collage of letters, announcements, and photo captions that allows chilling conclusions to be drawn from what is not written. The collection includes Ferr 's discussion of When Women Love Men, a story about a prostitute and a society lady who unite in order to survive, and one that illustrates the woman writer's art of dissembling anger through irony. In closing, she considers how her experience as a Latin American woman with ties to the United States has brought to her writing a dual cultural perspective. Rosario Ferr 's works include Sweet Diamond Dust and The House on the Lagoon.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49620364230929,"sku":"GOR002322205","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50275724558609,"sku":"CIN0375724699G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52632878645521,"sku":"CIN0375724699VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375724699.jpg?v=1751039187"},{"product_id":"maldito-amor-sweet-diamond-dust-book-rosario-ferr-9780375700637","title":"Maldito amor \/ Sweet Diamond Dust","description":"\u003cb\u003eUnas veces liricamente encantadora, y otras astutamente satírica, Rosario Ferré es una de las más originales escritoras de Latinoamérica.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e En \u003ci\u003eMaldito amor\u003c\/i\u003e, ella explora las luchas de clases y la evolución política de su Puerto Rico natal a través de la historia de una familia, los aristocráticos y belicosos De la Valle, y su lucha por la dominación y control del vecino ingenio azucarero.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e El cuento titular narra la vida del pirático Don Julio; su hijo, el astuto político Nino Ubaldino; y los hijos de Ubaldino, Arístides y Nicolás, envueltos en una lucha a la muerte por el control de la fortuna familiar y por la mujer que ambos quieren. Los tres cuentos siguientes relatan las vidas de las nuevas generaciones de los De la Valle, creando un drama en cuatro partes que presenta las cuestiones fascinantes de la independencia, la religión y la raza, con todo el ingenio y energía característicos de Ferré.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Hypnotic... should not be missed.\"--Lucy Stark, Voices from the Gaps\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Originally published in Spanish under the title Maldito Amor (\"Cursed Love\"), Sweet Diamond Dust introduced American readers to a voice that is by turns lyrical and wickedly satiric. A finalist for the National Book Award with her 1995 novel, The House on the Lagoon, Ferre here uses family history as a metaphor for the class struggles and political evolution of Latin America and Puerto Rico in particular. The result is writing of the highest order--provocative, profound, yet delightfully readable.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The \"sweet diamond dust\" of the title story is, of course, sugar. In this tale the De La Valle family's secrets, ambitions, and passions, interwoven with the fate of the local sugar mill, are recounted by various relatives, friends, and servants. As the characters struggle under the burden of privilege, the story, permeated with haunting echoes of Puerto Rico's own turbulent history, becomes a splendid allegory for a nation's past. The three accompanying stories each follow the lives of the descendants of the De La Valle family, making the book a drama in four parts, raising troubling issues of race, religion, freedom, and sex, with Ferre's trademark irony and startling imagery--a literary experience no reader would want to miss.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49853192274193,"sku":"CIN0375700633G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51102018830609,"sku":"GOR006202083","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51106126233873,"sku":"CIN0375700633VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51295515705617,"sku":"NIN9780375700637","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52716394414353,"sku":"CIN0375700633A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53351645610257,"sku":"GOR004456140","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375700633.jpg?v=1751430304"},{"product_id":"vecindarios-excentricos-book-rosario-ferr-9780375703706","title":"Vecindarios Excentricos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tale of two dynasties whose fortunes are linked to the fate of an emerging nation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElvira Vernet narrates\u003ci\u003eEccentric Neighborhoods\u003c\/i\u003e as she attempts to solve the mystery of who her parents truly are. Her mother, the beautiful and aristocratic Clarissa Rivas de Santillana, was born into a rarefied world of privilege, one of five daughters on the family's sugar plantation. Elvira's father, Aurelio Vernet, and his three brothers and two sisters were raised by Santiago, a Cuban immigrant who ruled his family with an iron hand. As Puerto Rico struggles for independence - and Aurelio takes his place among the powerful political gentry - a legacy of violence, infidelity, faith, and sacrifice is born. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of a country coming of age, \u003ci\u003eEccentric Neighborhoods\u003c\/i\u003e is a lush, transcendent novel, a family saga about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children. In this magnificent follow-up to\u003ci\u003eThe House on the Lagoon\u003c\/i\u003e, Rosario Ferre delivers a work of historical fiction influenced by magical realism and infused with forgiveness and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50074526482705,"sku":"CIN0375703705G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50094996816145,"sku":"CIN0375703705VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53489902780689,"sku":"NIN9780375703706","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375703705.jpg?v=1751039159"},{"product_id":"vuelo-del-cisne-flight-of-the-swan-spanish-language-book-rosario-ferr-9780375713859","title":"Vuelo del cisne \/ Flight of the Swan (Spanish-language)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of a prima ballerina and her acolyte, set in Puerto Rico in 1917. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlight of the Swan\u003c\/i\u003e is the compelling story of a world-famous Russian prima ballerina who finds herself stranded on a Caribbean island in 1917, due to political upheavals in her own country. 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Pasado y presente, historia y sociedad se mezclan con una inmediatez sorprendente. Ola tras ola de conquistadores estalla sobre Norte América; un hombre de negocios bien vestido inesperadamente revela sus raíces cuando alguien le da un pisotón en el elevador del Ritz y suelta una maldición. Fotos instantáneas de los deambulantes que se desplazan por las calles de la capital, el cariño exuberante que siente un niño por su ciudad natal, los amantes cuya memoria perdura en el recuerdo, el rumor de la lluvia en el patio de atrás, que lava el remordimiento: he aquí algunos de los temas a la vez poéticos y cotidianos que se recogen en este libro.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe's Spanish Armada in 1588,\" Rosario Ferré writes in the title poem of \u003ci\u003eLanguage Duel;\u003c\/i\u003e \"Language carries with it all their fire and power.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ferré explores this tension throughout this explosive collection, which plays with the sensual differences between the languages and lays bare many of the complications facing an increasingly bilingual America.\u003cbr\u003e In these poems, Miami is celebrated as a modern Tower of Babel and a place where the layers of history are particularly palpable. Wave after wave of conquerors wash across the Americas. A well-dressed Latino businessman inadvertently reveals his roots at the Ritz when someone steps on his foot, eliciting a profanity--in Spanish. Intimate snapshots capture the nameless heroism of homeless men, the exuberance of a child's affection for her hometown, and memories of lovers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351823257873,"sku":"CIN0375713840G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103580713233,"sku":"CIN0375713840A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53156935270673,"sku":"NIN9780375713842","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375713840.jpg?v=1751166262"},{"product_id":"la-casa-de-la-laguna-the-house-on-the-lagoon-book-rosario-ferr-9780375700491","title":"La casa de la laguna \/ The House on the Lagoon","description":"\u003cb\u003eLaudada como una obra centra de la literatura latinoamericana, esta novela asombrosa, de una de las m s prominentes mujeres de letras de Puerto Rico, es a la vez una rebosante saga multigeneracional y una historia m gica de la isla.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEn una hermosa mansi n con vista a la laguna de Alamares, Isabel Montfort est  escribiendo la cr nica de su familia. 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