Las Christmas: escritores latinos recuerdan las tradiciones navideñas
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Las Christmas: escritores latinos recuerdan las tradiciones navideñas

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En esta espléndida extravagancia literaria, veinticino de los más conocidos escritores latinos nos agradan y nos conmueven con sus recuerdos navideños.

El cuento de Julia Álvarez nos enseña como Santicló libró de opresión política a su querido tío. Junot Díaz recuerda su inquieta asimilación a un nuevo país al pasar su primera Navidad en los Estados Unidos. Sandra Cisneros ...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published December 1st 1998 by Vintage (first published October 27th 1998)
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Ellen O'brien
I picked this book up because I wanted to remember a very special Christmas Eve I spent in California with a wonder woman named Cheney Olivas. Her husband was elected to the legislature and Cheney worked with me in Santa Barbara. She was a big-hearted woman who recognized a longing for family when she saw one. One Christmas, she invited me to her house for Christmas Eve. I surprised her young nephews and nieces with my bad Tex-Mex Spanish and my capacity for tamales and cold beer. Reading this b...more
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I love Esmeralda Santiago! Her books never dissapoint. This was wonderful and all the writers featured were talented. For sure one of my favorite books...not just for its content but for the feeling it leaves you with...
Nanette
Great book that has an AWESOME recipe for arroz con dulce from Esmeralda Santiagos's mother, which I make every Christmas. Delicioso!!
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I was happy to receive this as a Christmas gift, and enjoyed the first essay, but have now put the book aside for several months as I prefer to read Christmas stories a bit closer to Christmastime.
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Stories and recipes.
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Esmeralda Santiago (born 1948 in San Juan, Puerto Rico). Is a renowned Puerto Rican author In 1961, she came to the United States when she was thirteen years old, the eldest in a family that would eventually include eleven children. Ms. Santiago attended New York City's Performing Arts High School, where she majored in drama and dance. After eight years of part-time study at community colleges, sh...more
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