Fiction. Latino Latina Studies.The story of a familys saga from Cuba to theother America Herreras novel spans the waning years of Cubas postplantation preRevolu... » 

Fiction. Latino Latina Studies.The story of a familys saga from Cuba to theother America Herreras novel spans the waning years of Cubas postplantation preRevolutionary period to the present. This is a rare novel aquest for origin and legitimacy exquisitely written in language that draws onthe mysterious forces of continuity and renewal. Moving across time and spaceit is the reconstruction of an unfinished world a way of life that was lost .. . until we are candidly and painfully brought to the present time. It is aluminous celebration of the Islands contrapuntal facets its sensuous everpresent physical beauty alongside the cruelty and violence that resulted in ashattering of the old order Lourdes Gil author of Empieza la ciudad. «