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El Sueno de America - by Esmeralda Santiago (Paperback)

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  • América Gonzales es empleada de un hotel en una isla en la costa de Puerto Rico, donde limpia los cuartos de extranjeros ricos que miran de reojo.
  • Author(s): Esmeralda Santiago
  • 360 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Hispanic & Latino

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"America Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her, her married boyfriend Correa beats her, and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with America. So when America is offered the chance to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York, she takes it as a sign that a door to escape has been opened. Life in Westchester seems strange, though, to someone who has never left the tropical island where she was born"--Publisher marketing.



Book Synopsis



América Gonzales es empleada de un hotel en una isla en la costa de Puerto Rico, donde limpia los cuartos de extranjeros ricos que miran de reojo. Su madre alcohólica le tiene resentimiento...su novio Correa, quien es casado le pega...y su hija de catorce años piensa que su vida seria mejor en cualquier otro lugar menos donde esté America.Asi que cuando le ofrecen la oportunidad de trabajar como criada y niñera para una familia en el municipio de Weschester, Nueva York, America cree que ha encontrado una puerta de escape. Pero al mismo tiempo en que disfruta del lujo relativo de su nueva vida atreviéndose incluso a querer a otro hombre que no sea Correa, América tiene que luchar contra la constante sensación de que nunca podra escapar su pasado, no importa lo que haga.



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America Gonzalez es empleada de un hotel en una isla en la costa de Puerto Rico, donde limpia los cuartos de extranjeros ricos que le miran de reojo. Su madre alcoholica le tiene resentimento . . . su novio, Correa, quien es casado le pega . . . y su hija de catorce anos piensa que su vida seria mejor en culaquier otro lugar menos donde este America. Asi que cuando le ofrecen la oportunidad de trabajar como criada y ninera para una familia en el municipio de Westchester, Nueva York, America cree que ha encontrado una puerto de escape. Pero al mismo tiempo en que disfruta de lujo relativo de su nueva vida atreviendose incluso a querer a otro hombre que no sea Correa, America tiene que luchar contra la constante sensacion de que nunca podra escapar su pasado, no importa lo que haga.



Review Quotes




"Con esta novela, Santiago se ha estableciado como una de las voces mas poderosas de la ficciin americana.""Boston Globe"Desearia poder escribir como Esmeralda Santiago! Lea este libro; dejese inspirar.""Autora de Waiting to Exhale"Emocionante y lleno de incertidumbre. El viaje fabuloso de Amarica Gonzales...es realizado con dominio.""Chicago Tribune
Dimensions (Overall): 8.07 Inches (H) x 5.35 Inches (W) x .88 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 360
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Hispanic & Latino
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
Author: Esmeralda Santiago
Language: Spanish
Street Date: April 25, 1997
TCIN: 1004452716
UPC: 9780060928285
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-4296
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.88 inches length x 5.35 inches width x 8.07 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.7 pounds
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