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El Canto Del Agua / Song of the Water Saints

Una Novela

El Canto Del Agua / Song of the Water Saints( )
Author: Rosario, Nelly
ISBN:978-1-4000-3004-0
Publication Date:Sep 2003
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage Espanol
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $13.95
Book Description:

Esta novela vibrante y provocativa explora los sueños y las luchas de tres generaciones de mujeres dominicanas. Graciela, nacida en las cercanías de Santo Domingo al final del siglo diecinueve, es una aventurera testaruda que se cria durante la ocupación de los Estados Unidos. Demasiada pobre para viajar mas allá de su imaginación y frustrada con la monotonía de su vida, se ve afectada en sus relaciones amorosas y en su relación con su hija Mercedes. Mercedes, abandonada a los trece...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / Hispanic & Latino / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.2 x 8 x 0.59 Inches
Book Weight:0.488 Pounds
Author Biography
Rosario, Nelly (Author)
Nelly Rosario was born in the Dominican Republic & raised in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a Bachelor's in engineering from MIT & an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. She has received numerous awards including a 1999 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Fellowship, The Bronx Writers' Center Van Lier Literary Fellowship for 1999-2000, two National Arts Club Writing Fellowships, the 1997 Huston/Wright Award in Fiction & most recently she has been chosen as a "Writer on the Verge" by the Village Voice Literary Supplement for 2001. Rosario is published in the anthology Becoming American (Hyperion, 2000).

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