A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimized for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. “The Youngest Doll,” based on a family anecdote, is a s
"English and Spanish have been at war since Queen Elisabeth sank King Felipe's Spanish Armada in 1588," Rosario Ferre writes in the title poem of Language Duel; "Language carries with it all their fir
Una obra epica sobre los linajes de dos familias, escrita por la autora de La casa de la laguna. ??"Mama nacio en Guayames el 6 de enero de 1901. Mi abuelo, Alvaro Rivas de Santillana, estaba convenci
Available in Spanish for the first time in the United States.From Rosario Ferre (nominated for the National Book Award for The House on the Lagoon), her first work of fiction, long out of print in any
El amor y la lealtad son puestos a pueba en esta novela llena de brio y agudeza de la reconocida autora puertorriquena, Rosario Ferre, autora de La casa de la laguna. Se trata de la historia de una ba
As Isabel Monfort, the wealthy and rebellious wife of Quintin Mendizabal, asserts her independence by composing a history of her own and her husband's families, Quintin begins to "correct" her manuscr
In a Spanish-language edition of Sweet Diamond Dust, the author explores the history of political and cultural struggle in her native Puerto Rico through the story of one fractious family of aristocra
Originally published in Spanish under the title Maldito Amor ("Cursed Love"), Rosario Ferre's Sweet Diamond Dust introduced American readers to a voice that is by turns lyrical and wickedly satiric.
