Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major new novel from one of our country s most beloved storytellers. Caramelo is a romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. We travel from the Mexico City that was the Paris of the New World to the music filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties and, finally, to Lala s own difficult adolescence in the not quite promised land of San Antonio, Texas. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family s stories, separating the truth from the healthy lies that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. The novel opens with the Reyes annual car trip a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels from Chicago to the other side : Mexico City. The striped Caramelo rebozo is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. Lala Reyes grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl, makers.
The celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy the very stuff of life. And what makes this a particularly special audio production is the fact that the author, Sandra Cisneros, reads. This timeless classic is now available, for the first time, unabridged. Esperanza’s story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become. Esperanza doesn’t want to belong not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and hard beauty. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of coming of age classics. Listen as Sandra Cisneros brings to life The House on Mango Street, her greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents This must be the voice she hears in her head when she writes her magical prose.’
‘It’s not always that a luscious writer can be a luscious reader of her own work.
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