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The Sugar Island

The Sugar Island

Lamazares, Ivonne

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 061815454X
ISBN13: 9780618154548
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: Oct 5 2001
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Ivonne Lamazares's distinguished debut novel is at once a deeply personal and worldly tale . . . a wonderful amalgamation of culture, politics, and love (Philadelphia Weekly). With economical prose and a clear-eyed vision, Lamazares evokes lives full of hope but fraught with obstacles in this story of a mother and daughter in 1960s Cuba. The story is told in the brave, tough voice of Tanya, a girl at odds with her mother and with the rapidly changing world around her. In the wake of Castro's revolution, Tanya's mother -- passionate and unreliable -- is determined to leave Cuba at all costs and to take her reluctant daughter with her. THE SUGAR ISLAND presents their embattled relationship against the backdrop of a country in conflict with itself, where the old world chafes against the new and where a parent's desperate grab for freedom has dire consequences for her child.

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