Soñar en cubano
Escrito por Cristina García
Narrado por Tatiana Vecino
3.5/5
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El celebrado libro de Cristina García cuenta la sobrecogedora y agridulce historia de una familia que experimenta la revolución de un país y las revelaciones que ello conlleva. La vidas de Celia del Pino y de su esposo, sus hijas y nietas reflejan el realismo mágico de Cuba, un paisaje de belleza y miseria, idealismo y corrupción. Soñar en cubano es “una obra que posee tanto la intimidad de un relato de Chejov como la magia alucinatoria de una novela de García Márquez” (The New York Times).
Dreaming in Cuban:
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time
Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author.
Cristina García
Cristina Garcia is the editor of two anthologies and the author of seven novels, including The Aguero Sisters, King of Cuba, and the National Book Award finalist Dreaming in Cuban. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages, and she has been the recipient of several awards, grants, and fellowships, including a Guggenheim. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area and has served as a faculty member at several universities.
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- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5I enjoyed the deep richness of the narrative in this book. A side effect of the Cuban setting was the little reminders of the two or three years I lived in Key West as a child: images of poincianas and conches brought back memories long submerged.
- Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas2/5Beautifully written, if a bit heavy with the flowery and dreamy descriptions at times. But even those don't seem out of place when you're talking about that colorful, bright part of the world. I didn't feel this was so much a story about politics as it was a story about families and relationships within families: fathers and daughters; mothers and sons; daughters and mothers. About holding on to dreams, living out your passions. The context of the Cuban culture and revolution offers a unique, interesting and touching perspective. I didn't rate it higher because I was hoping for something a little more historical.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5Wonderful book. Very well written!
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5I really like this book. It’s about culture shock and cultural assimilation, and about the connections between people in different times and places. There are some especially great older characters.
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5Dreaming in Cuba chronicles the lives of three generation of Cuban women in one family split between Cuba and the USA. Each of the main characters have significant emotional and psychological challenges and much of the book is spent exploring these and gradually revealing the problems that each has had to face in their life time. I thought this book was well written and the characters were engaging - especially Cecilia and Lourdes. However, I felt that the book failed to paint a picture of everyday Cuban life - perhaps because the writter has spent her adult life in the US. The descriptions of life in New York were on the whole more convincing. The author claims that the Cuban revolution is central to the book but this was not apparant to me. Two of the main characters do have very strong (fanatical) and irreconciable opinions about "el Lieder". However, aside from this, the book does not have a great deal to say about the revoluation and focusses more on the inner lives and losses of the main characters. The one Cuban issue which it does focus on in some details is the Santeria religion.
- Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas5/5Dreaming in Cuban — what a colorful book, it is saturated with color — sunlight — life — it is a dream. I started reading this during the week my mother passed away, read it during the wee hours I spent at her bedside during that long vigil in the Comfort Room — this beautiful book carried me through the toughest two weeks of my life and I was sad to come to its end, but I’m happy to know that I can read it again at any time, even if I pick it up and open to a random page and read it for a few minutes, this is a book that is easy to become immersed into and fall in love with all over again. As with many beloved books on my bookshelves, there are several dog-eared pages to revisit — the language is supple and written so lovingly — it has a sorrow that can break your heart and make it sing with joy at the same time. A classic beauty.
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5Told from a half a dozen different viewpoints, shifting in time, this books is a challenge to read. The language is beautiful and sensual, the characters dysfunctional to a point often nearing insanity and the situations often improbable at best. For the first half of the book, I was enchanted, but my enjoyment of Garcia's language play palled and, for the second half, I was simply slogging through the pages, hoping to be done soon. This is one of those books that will be greatly loved by some readers. Sadly, I'm just not one of those.
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5Interesting Story, but a cumbersome read.
I found Dreaming in Cuban to be a cumbersome effort to read. Almost from the start I was beginning to lose track of the characters and I was beginning to think that I would need a score card to keep track of who was who. In this novel the author did create interesting scenes that centers around the Cuban family, and culture but there were so many loose ends when I finished reading the book that the overall story just didn't connect with me. It's not a terrible read, maybe just an entertaining story. - Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5It’s a story of four women from a Cuban family divided by the revolution and political views. Two of the women- mother and daughter- live in New York City, and the grandmother and the other daughter in Cuba. Through their eyes, we see a whole spectrum of views and beliefs from staunch capitalism to equally firm communism, from atheism to Santeria. The plot revolves around the grandmother in Cuba and her teenage granddaughter in New York City, longing to see each other. As in a typical Latin American novel, there is a lot of magical realism and quite a bit of passion. The book has some great moments and presents a nice cut through the Cuban emigrant milieu as well as the remaining Cuban society, and provides what I think is a balanced view.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5I enjoyed this book, though it wasn't quite as wonderful as I believe it could have been. The beginning was a bit disjointed and the timeline was sometimes hard to follow, and the end left me feeling...strange. It's a good little novel though, and I'd recommend it for a light summer read.
- Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas2/5A novel about some characters who were Cuban or Cuban emigres that is not bad in any identifiable ways, but just didn't grab my interest, so I gave up on it.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5Dreaming in Cuban is beautifully written and skillfully delves into the lives of several family members who hold opposing ideas about the Cuban revolution. It focuses on four major characters: Celia del Pino, her daughter Felicia who still lives in Cuba, her daughter Lourdes who has emigrated to New York City, and Lourdes' own daughter, Pilar. The multigenerational aspect is one of the most touching things about it, in my opinion.
The problem for me was that the story didn't seem complete--I feel like we just barely skimmed the surface with these characters, sometimes going a little (or a lot) deeper, but only for a moment. The book is roughly 250 pages long, but for me, it wasn't enough to cover the story of four women from the 1930s to the 1980s, plus a handful of other relatives that get their own POV sections along the way. As it is, we get a lot of the characters' present-day emotions, but I would have loved to see more scenes actually played out rather than alluded to. There are gaps in the story between the years and the POV shifts, and I personally would have liked to see more of them filled in.
The other thing that I found a little frustrating with this book is that some of the metaphors and references the characters make didn't seem to make sense, even after I stopped to think about them and figure it out. There are some parts where characters suddenly realize something about the moon, etc., and how it relates to their present situation, but the reason for this is not clear at all to me. Sometimes this happens in fiction and I just go with it, but in this book, for some reason, it served to jolt me out of the narrative and ended up interrupting the flow.
With that said, there are many scenes that are very powerful and haunting, particularly in Celia's story. Cristina Garcia lets certain parts of the characters' pasts emerge slowly and reveals them at precisely the right time, which I love in a book. - Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5It was kind of stressful reading this book. No one is happy with anyone for a long time and there are a lot of scary memories. But it was a good window into what it might be like to live in Cuba.