Product Description: Through an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, "Call Me Brooklyn" follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving from the secret tunnels that shelter the forgotten residents of Manhattan to the studio where Mark Rothko put an end to his life, from the jazz clubs frequented by Thomas Pynchon to the bar in Madrid where we learn the truth about Ackerman's past, "Call Me Brooklyn" draws upon a rich tradition that includes Nabokov's "Pale Fire," Bellow's "Humbolt's Gift," and the novels of Felipe Alfau--a hymn to mystery and to the power of fiction...read more

From the author of the international blockbuster LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, a passionate and tragic love story set against the fall of the Aztec empire.

Product Description: Book by Esquivel, Laura

Narrated from the perspective of an indominable elderly woman who escapes her nursing home and walks into the sea in April 2000, the story of four generations of a Cuban family moves from 1930s Cuba, through the Cuban revolution and a dangerous escape to the United States, to present-day Miami and New York. Original. 30,000 first printing.

A debut novel set in Cuba following Castro's revolutionary upheaval describes a country confused and dislocated through the eyes of three generations of women in the Lucientes family. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)