Cuando era puertorriqueña / When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

Cuando era puertorriqueña / When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

La historia de Esmeralda Santiago comienza en la parte rural de Puerto Rico, donde sus padres y siete hermanos, en continuas luchas los unos con los otros, vivían una vida alborotada pero llena de amor y ternura.

De niña, Esmeralda aprendió a apreciar cómo se come una guayaba,a distinguir la canción del coquí, a identificar los ingredientes en las morcillas y a ayudar a que el alma de un bebé muerto subiera al Cielo. Pero precisamente cuando Esmeralda parecía haberlo aprendido todo sobre su cultura, la llevaron a Nueva York, donde las reglas --y el idioma-- eran no sólo diferentes, sino también desconcertantes. Cómo Esmeralda superó la adversidad, se ganó entrada a la Performing Arts High School y después continuó a Harvard, de donde se graduó con altos honores, es el relato de la tremenda trayectoria de una mujer verdaderamente extraordinaria.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard

In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.

Esmeralda Santiago is the author of the memoirs When I Was Puerto Rican, Nearly a Woman, and The Turkish Lover, as well as the novel America's Dream and a children's book, A Doll for Navidades, which she adapted into a Peabody Award-winning film for PBS's Masterpiece Theatre. Her work has been featured in magazines such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Home & Garden, as well as on NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition. She was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and currently resides in New York. www.esmeraldasantiago.com is a website dedicated to Esmeralda Santos.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780679756774
ISBN 10	0679756779
Title	Cuando era puertorriqueña / When I Was Puerto Rican
Author	Esmeralda Santiago
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1994-10-18
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.