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Caramelo or Puro Cuento

A multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family.

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  • "Caramelo"
  • "Caramelo"@en
  • "Puro cuento"
  • "Puro cuento"@en
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  • "Caramelo, or, Puro cuento"@it

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  • "A multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family."@en
  • "Through the eyes of young Celaya, or Lala, the Reyes family saga twists and turns over three generations of truths, half-truths, and outright lies. And, like Celaya's grandmother's prized caramelo (striped) rebozo, so is "the universe a cloth, and all humanity interwoven ... Pull one string and the whole thing comes undone.""@en
  • ""La abuela de Lala Reyes es descendiente de una familia de afamados reboceros. El rebozo de rayas color caramelo es el más bello de todos y aquél que llega a pertenecer a Lala, al igual que la historia familiar que éste representa. La novela comieza con el viaje anual en automóvil de los Reyes--una caravana desbordante de niños, risas y pleitos--desde Chicago hasta el 'otro lado': la Ciudad de México. Es aquí que Lala cada año escucha las historias de su familia y trata de separar la verdad de la 'mentiras sanas' que han resonado de una generación a otra. Viajamos desde la Ciudad de México, que era el 'París del Nuevo Mundo' a las calles llenas de música de Chicago en los albores de los locos años veinte y, finalmente, a la difícil adolescencia de Lala en la tierra no tan exactamente prometida de San Antonio, Texas" (sobrecubierta)."
  • "Celaya "Lala" Reyes, traveling from Chicago to Mexico City each summer, draws together stories of her Mexican-American family of shawl-makers, including her papa and Awful Grandmother."
  • "Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala"s six older brothers--packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothers and to understand her place on the side of the border and that, Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she starts telling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to how she got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating. Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwind exploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished rebozo, or shawl, that has been passed down through generations of Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history, family, and love."@en
  • "Longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2003."@en
  • "During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of famous shawl makers, one of which has come into Lala's possession."
  • "The multi-generational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy."
  • ""Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl, makers. The striped caramelo rebozo is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip-a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels-from Chicago to "the other side": Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family's stories, separating the truth from the "healthy lies" that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. We travel from the Mexico City that was the "Paris of the New World" to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties-and, finally, to Lala's own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas."--Baileys' Womens Prize for Fiction."
  • "Story of a Mexican American family whose voices create humor, passion and poignancy. Grandmothers shawl is a beautiful striped caramelo rebozo with a romantic family history of its own."
  • "During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped shawl has come into Lala's possession."
  • "During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped shawl has come into Lala's possession."@en
  • "A multi-generational story of a Mexican-American family, from Mexico City to Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, to San Antonio."@en
  • "From the Publisher: Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip-a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels- from Chicago to "the other side": Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family's stories, separating the truth from the "healthy lies" that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. We travel from the Mexico City that was the "Paris of the New World" to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties- and finally, to Lala's own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas. Caramelo is a vital, wise, romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major new novel from one of our country's most beloved storytellers."

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  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Powieść amerykańska"

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  • "Caramelo : or puro cuento, a novel"
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  • "Caramelo, or, Puro cuento a novel"@en
  • "Caramelo : puro cuento"
  • "Caramelo : or pure cuento : a novel"@en
  • "Caramelo : puro cuento, a novel"@en
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  • "Caramelo, o, Puro cuento"@it
  • "Caramelo, or Puro cuento : a novel"
  • "Caramelo : or Puro cuento"
  • "Caramelo : or puro cuento"
  • "Caramelo : or puro cuento"@en
  • "Caramelo, or, Puro cuento : a novel"
  • "Caramelo, or, Puro cuento : a novel"@en

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