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Sweet Diamond Dust - by Rosario Ferre (Paperback)

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  • Rosario Ferre uses family history as a metaphor for the class struggles and political evolution of Latin America and Puerto Rico in this highly provacative, profound, and delightfully readable collection of stories.
  • About the Author: Rosario Ferre is Puerto Rico's leading woman of letters, with several books of poetry, short fiction, biography, and feminist criticism to her credit.
  • 208 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)

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Rosario Ferre uses family history as a metaphor for the class struggles and political evolution of Latin America and Puerto Rico in this highly provacative, profound, and delightfully readable collection of stories.

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. 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.



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"Lyrically voices the generation-bridging tale of the De La Valle family and their Puerto Rican sugar mill through the eyes and souls of several family members, longtime servants and dear friends... With a majestic plot, nestled in the hills of those Guamani Mountains, along with the De La Valle family and their sugar mill, Ferré exposes the secrets of a family and the glories of a country under pressure from American business threats. All at once, Sweet Diamond Dust explores the life of a family and of a business, through the generations and into our modern world."--Lucy Stark, Voices from the Gaps

"[Ferre] is a perfect embodiment of the Janus-like identity Puerto Rico emanates today, a mythical creature with two heads set back to back, impossibly 'loyal to two fatherlands, ' as the memorialist Bernardo Vega once put it."--Ilan Stavans, World Literature Today



About the Author



Rosario Ferre is Puerto Rico's leading woman of letters, with several books of poetry, short fiction, biography, and feminist criticism to her credit. She lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.12 Inches (H) x 4.84 Inches (W) x .47 Inches (D)
Weight: .48 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Short Stories (single author)
Publisher: Plume Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Rosario Ferre
Language: Spanish
Street Date: October 1, 1996
TCIN: 92681149
UPC: 9780452277489
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-2980
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.47 inches length x 4.84 inches width x 8.12 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.48 pounds
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