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Title: Caramelo
ISBN: 0679742581
Author:
Sandra Cisneros
Publicate Date: 2003-09-09
Publish: 2003-09-09
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Completely satisfied
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2: Spanish Literature related-English version
Very interesting book if you are looking for Mexican-American diversity. It reads like a 'reality show' on TV; coming of age of an adolescent Mexican-American living in Chicago. If you live it, as a bicultural person, you would be bored...otherwise it is inciteful. This was a homework assignment for a university course, otherwise I would not have chosen it.
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3: The MBC Abbreviated Review
For us, the San Antonians, the book was nostalgic and chewy, full of life, delicious, and bitter-sweet. So was the same for many other Mexican-Americans who live in Texas. The book presented an honest reflections, life and souls of an important slice of American population; and more importantly, peoples of our own town. The voice, the blocks of words full of local idiom, and Mexican proverbs were exhilarating. The plot was a story of the awful grandmother but more so mini tales of individual characters who appeared in the novel. The group agreed that the book was a great and pleasant read; here are some delightful passages:
Sweet sweeter, colors brighter, the bitter more bitter.
Tin sugar spoon and how surprised the hand feels because it's so light.
If you leave your father's house without a husband you are worse than a dog.
Only people you love drive you to hate.
The book also reflects upon the transformation of the city and appearance of a new milieu.
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4: beautiful!
This is one of the most beautiful books I have read in a long time. It is all about family and weaving together and clashing of two cultures. You will love it.
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5: Life, Love, and Familia on Both Sides of the Border
Caramelo is a lovely story set over four generations of a Spanish (maybe), then Mexican, then Mexican-American family. It's an intriguing, expansive novel that tackles family relationships, love, and human nature.There's not much trivial or frivilous in this story. Despite this, I didn't find "Caramelo" repressively serious.
I was struck by how closely Mexico and America's history and culture are woven together. It gives one a sense of how arbitrary borders are. There's some Spanish interspersed in the text, which apparently has bothered some readers. I didn't mind it, but then I understood most of it. I think without it,the story wouldn't be true to the Mexican-American culture it portrays. Though I feel "Caramelo" lacks some of the emotional depth that one gets from novels like "One Hundred Years of Solitude" or "Las Maravillas", I recommend it.
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