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9781936070954 | 1 edition (Akashic Books, April 19, 2011), cover price $15.95
Product Description: "A mix of such otherworldly scenarios, pop culture references and linguistic inventiveness comes remarkably together for a brazen social and political commentary on modern Mexican reality."Â âNPR BooksThe English-language debut of âone of the most original and entertaining voices in contemporary Mexican literatureâ (Revista Gatopardo): a collection of surreal, ironic, and madcap stories about the comedy and brutality of life in Mexico...read more
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9781632060228 | Restless Books, January 26, 2016, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: "A mix of such otherworldly scenarios, pop culture references and linguistic inventiveness comes remarkably together for a brazen social and political commentary on modern Mexican reality.
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9781558857742 | Arte Publico Pr, April 30, 2014, cover price $24.95
âRICH AND SONOROUS PROSE . . . Thereâs plenty of reason to hope for the future of a fiction that welcomes writers with such a passionate sense of the past.ââSan Jose Mercury NewsOn New Yearâs Day, 1959, Alejandra San José was born in Havana, entering the world through the heart of revolution. Fearing the turmoil brewing in Cuba, her parents took Ale and fled to the shores of North Americaâending up in Chicago amid a close community of Cuban refugees. As an adult, Ale becomes an interpreter, which takes her back to her homeland for the first time. There, she makes her way back through San José history, uncovering new fragments of truth about the relatives who struggled with their own identities so long ago. For the San Josés, ostensibly Catholics, are actually Jews. They are conversos who converted to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition. As Alejandra struggles to confront what it is to be Cuban and American, Catholic and Jewish, she translates her fatherâs troubling youthful experiences into the healing language of her own heart.âLyrically written, Days of Awe reflects the way Cuban Spanish is spoken with poetic rhythm and frankness.ââMs.âAn ambitious work . . . A deft talent whose approach to sex, religion, and ethnicity is keenly provocative.â âMiami HeraldâWith intelligent, intense writing, Obejas approaches . . . the heady climes of Cuban American stalwarts Oscar Hijuelos and Cristina Garcia.ââLibrary Journal (starred review)
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9780786238477 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 1, 2002), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: âRICH AND SONOROUS PROSE .
9780345439215 | Ballantine Books, July 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Growing up in Chicago, Alejandra San Josâe, a Cuban refugee, becomes an interpreter and travels back to Cuba, where she uncovers a family secret that has haunted her father his entire life.
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9780345441546 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 2002), cover price $16.00
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9781933354385 | Akashic Books, October 1, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories by current and former residents of Havana that relate tales of ambiguous moralities, collective cruelty, and the damage incurred by self-preservation at all costs.
9780130163912, titled "Linux Desk Reference" | Prentice Hall Ptr, December 1, 1999, cover price $29.99 | also contains Linux Desk Reference | About this edition: A reference for power users and system administrators covers the filesystem, printers, performance monitoring, networking, scheduling, pattern matching, the Linux kernel, shells, I/O, devices, and disks
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9781573440172 | Cleis Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A twenty-four-year-old Cuban lesbian seeks a place for herself in her adopted American home while learning to cope with her dysfunctional family and overwhelming memories of her life in Cuba
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9781573447003 | Cleis Pr, September 10, 1997, cover price $19.95
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9781573440189 | Cleis Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A twenty-four-year-old Cuban lesbian seeks a place for herself in her adopted American home while learning to cope with her dysfunctional family and overwhelming memories of her life in Cuba
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9780292723320 | Univ of Texas Pr, November 15, 2010, cover price $19.95
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9781933354699 | Akashic Books, March 1, 2009, cover price $15.95
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9781451632835 | Atria Books, September 25, 2012, cover price $17.00
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9780979420825 | Small Pr Distribution, November 1, 2007, cover price $6.95
A collection of short stories that deals with how gay and lesbian relationships ought to work, exploring the themes of broken relationships, safe sex, drug addiction, and AIDS
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9780939416929 | Cleis Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories that deals with how gay and lesbian relationships ought to work, exploring the themes of broken relationships, safe sex, drug addiction, and AIDS
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9780939416936, titled "We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This: Stories" | Cleis Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories that deals with how gay and lesbian relationships ought to work, exploring the themes of broken relationships, safe sex, drug addiction, and AIDS
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9781573446990 | Cleis Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $14.95
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