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Title: Peel My Love Like an Onion : A Novel by Ana Castillo ISBN: 0-385-49677-X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.19 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A TREAT FOR CASTILLO FANS
Comment: With a cameo by a character from SAPOGONIA (Castillo's other fine work) Castillo fans will enjoy this Chicago-based novel about Carmen la Coja and her flamenco heyday. The narrative is calculated and sustained from beginning to end, never kowtowing to flowery prose or flat writing. The book is funny, political and engaging. My only disappointment was that it happened so fast! I read the novel in one day (and loved every minute of it!). How long do I have to wait for the next Castillo novel?
Rating: 5
Summary: Peeled onion: more than just a root vegetable
Comment: From beginning to end, Carmen "La Coja" (the cripple) is a woman who is as loveable and insecure as your best friend. The author's skillful dialog is some of the best I've ever read. The wry humor and tongue-in-cheek observations made me laugh out loud. Carmen's mother who shouts on the phone when she talks long distance reminded me of my own mom. Carmen's mother has lived a hard working life, and now in her later years, God help the person who comes between her and her afternoon novelas.
Carmen fully plunges her passionate spirit into her lovers and into her dance. Polio and lack of education color her life, as does her beauty. The book plays the extremes: ecstacy and despair, devotion and revenge, health and illness, discipline and abandonment, Gypsy, Mexicana and Gringa.
The novel is deliciously laced with Gypsy music and folklore, Mexican family life, love, cooking, lovers, and of course dance. Like Hemmingway in "The Old Man and the Sea," the author uses a light, simple touch, natural dialog, and understated, narrative. It's a book to bring to bed... unless of course your lover is waiting.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Healing Book.
Comment: My son gave me this book last year. Actually, he gave me the Spanish version, Carmen la Coja, which he picked up after spending a year in Spain and wanting to keep up with his Spanish. He is second generation madrileno growing up in New York. Our other connection with this book is that I suffered from polio as a child in Madrid. My parents moved to the United States when I recovered with my bout of illness in hopes of my getting better treatment here. This is not to review my life but Carmen la Coja's--brave, fierce and in touch (finally) with herself, with no advantages whatsoever. As I read, I asked myself, What would I have done if I had had such an insensitive mother as Carmen? What would I have done if I had no way to make my living but by my own wits and with the illness I personally knew and understood? Despite the many adjustments I had to make here in the States, I came to understand how fortunate I was all along. It is a courageous testimony to woman's strength. I am in the medical profession and I have recommended this book to many patients and colleagues. They have all thanked me for it later.
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Title: Carmen la Coja by Ana Castillo ISBN: 0375724680 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: So Far from God: A Novel by Ana Castillo ISBN: 0452272092 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo ISBN: 0385420137 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma by Ana Castillo ISBN: 0452274249 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: What Night Brings by Carla Trujillo ISBN: 1880684942 Publisher: Curbstone Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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