Gorgeous, lovely prose | Days of Awe (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Brilliant book | Days of Awe (Ballantine Reader's Circle) | Achy Obejas

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	• Days of Awe (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Achy Obejas Ballantine Books, 2002 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Superb.

This book is lyrically written, emotionally wrenching, and an excellent guide into the mysterious ways of both the Cuban Jewish community and its history as well as the Cuban Revolution. It's a challenging novel, full of poetry and questions about life and how we maneuver our way through it. It's also a deeply spiritual book, with insight about how religions work, and the true meaning of faith. As to the sex scenes, well ... they're delicious.

Gorgeous, lovely prose

Gorgeous and lovely prose, interesting story, fun, sexy, sweet. One of the more beautiful books I've read in a long time.

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Brilliant book

I am a Cuban raised in Miami where there are 1 million Cubans and hardly any Cuban literature. I went to the bookstore last week after reading an article in EL NUEVO HERALD about a beautiful Spanish/English bilingual Cuban-American picturebook, DRUM, CHAVI, DRUM!/TOCA, CHAVI, TOCA! set in Little Havana, written by a Cuban (Mayra L. Dole) and illustrated by a Cuban (Tonel). To my surprise I also found Memory Mambo and Days of Awe! There are close to 40 million hispanics in the United States and just a handful of books written by Latinos about the Latino experience; it is as if we did not exist. I am greatful to have found Achy Obejas. She brillianty weaves history and fiction in such a way that Days of Awe becomes hard to put down. I am looking forward to her next book and highly recommend Days of Awe to anyone interested in history/fiction/literature and brilliant writing. I am hooked!

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?RICH AND SONOROUS PROSE . . . There?s plenty of reason to hope for the future of a fiction that welcomes writers with such a passionate sense of the past.?
?San Jose Mercury News

On New Year?s 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 America?ending 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 father?s troubling youthful experiences into the healing language of her own heart.

?Lyrically written, Days of Awe reflects the way Cuban Spanish is spoken with poetic rhythm and frankness.?
?Ms.

?An ambitious work . . . A deft talent whose approach to sex, religion, and ethnicity is keenly provocative.?
?Miami Herald

?With intelligent, intense writing, Obejas approaches . . . the heady climes of Cuban American stalwarts Oscar Hijuelos and Cristina Garcia.?
?Library Journal (starred review)

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