| The Sugar Island Contributor(s): Lamazares, Ivonne (Author) |
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ISBN: 061815454X ISBN-13: 9780618154548 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: Set in 1960s Cuba, as Castro's revolution begins, this debut novel follows a girl named Tanya, her mother, and band of other refugees who board a makeshift raft bound for Florida. When they reach shore, they find the American Dream may not be within their reach. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00038917 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5" W x 8" (0.44 lbs) 218 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Locality - Miami, Florida - Cultural Region - South Atlantic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lamazares, Ivonne: - IVONNE LAMAZARES was born in Cuba in 1962. Her mother died when she was three, and she was raised by her grandparents in Old Havana before emigrating to Florida at the age of fourteen. Lamazares is on the faculty of Miami-Dade Community College, where she received an endowed chair for excellence in teaching literature, and her short stories have appeared in Blue Mesa Review and Michigan Quarterly Review. |