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Eccentric neighbors

The saga of two families in Puerto Rico early this century, one old money, the other new money. One lives off the land, the other is in industry, and their story is told by a woman born of a union of the two. A tale of love and family politics.

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  • "Una obra Epica sobre los linajes de dos familias, escrita por la autora de La casa de la laguna. "MamA naciO en GuayamEs el 6 de enero de 1901. Mi abuelo, Alvaro Rivas de Santillana, estaba convencido de que los Reyes Magos se la habIan traIdo como obsequio, pero abuela Valeria decIa que Clarissa habIa nacido por culpa de las lluvias." AsI comienza uno de los muchos cuentos de Vecindarios ExcEntricos, donde las historias de hombres y mujeres cuyos amores y pErdidas coincidieron con la desapariciOn de la sociedad colonial de la isla y con el nacimiento de una clase de nuevos ricos, se despliegan en un abanico de relatos esplEndidos. Los personages de FerrE saltan fuera de la pAgina con tal fuerza que rayan casi en lo mitolOgico, acompaNados por sueNos y sucesos. Un abuelo cariNoso, decidido a enlazar a su nieta con un miembro de la aristocracia francesa, sella su destino trAgico al celebrar su cotillOn en el palacio de Versalles; una solterona se propone seducir al hombre mAs rico de GuayamEs, rezAndole a la vez a Jesucristo y al Departamento de Hacienda para que lo exima de los impuestos. Los relatos de FerrE son a la vez divertidos y tristes, conmovedores y sensuales. Pertenecen a una larga y distinguida tradiciOn de narrativa hispanoamericana."
  • "The saga of two families in Puerto Rico early this century, one old money, the other new money. One lives off the land, the other is in industry, and their story is told by a woman born of a union of the two. A tale of love and family politics."@en
  • "The saga of two families in Puerto Rico early this century, one old money, the other new money. One lives off the land, the other is in industry, and their story is told by a woman born of a union of the two. A tale of love and family politics."
  • "A tale of two dynasties whose fortunes are linked to the fate of an emerging nation Elvira Vernet narrates Eccentric Neighborhoods 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 & rsquo;s sugar plantation. Elvira & rsquo;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 & mdash;and Aurelio takes his place among the powerful political gentry & mdash;a legacy of violence, infidelity, faith, and sacrifice is born. Set against the backdrop of a country coming of age, Eccentric Neighborhoods is a lush, transcendent novel, a family saga about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children. In this magnificent follow-up to The House on the Lagoon, Rosario Ferr & eacute; delivers a work of historical fiction influenced by magical realism and infused with forgiveness and love."@en

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  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
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  • "Psychological fiction"

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  • "Vecindarios excéntricos novela"
  • "Vecindarios excéntricos"@es
  • "Vecindarios excéntricos"
  • "Eccentric neighbors"@en
  • "Vecindarios excentricos"
  • "Vecindarios excéntricos : novela"
  • "Eccentric Neighborhoods : a Novel"@en
  • "Excentrieke kringen"
  • "Eccentric neighborhoods"
  • "Eccentric neighborhoods"@en
  • "Vecindarios Excentricos. (In Spanish)"

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