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Every year the three Reyes sons and their families drive south from Chicago via Route 66 to the home of the Awful Grandmother and the Little Grandfather on Destiny Street in Mexico City. From the back seat of her father's red Chevy station-wagon, our storyteller Lala loves to witness the crossover from endless Texas to flamboyant Mexico, the switch from truck stop donuts to street vendors with corn on the cob, the smell of hot tortillas and the sting of roasting chillies in the throat and eyes. The youngest of many cousins, Lala is also the most curious. Did the Little Grandfather really lose those very ribs in a terrible battle? And why is the Awful Grandmother's special treasure unfinished - her caramelo silk rebozo, or shawl, the colour of burnt milk candy? Why does the Awful Grandmother drive them all crazy with her favouritism of Lala's father over Uncle Fat-Face and Uncle Baby, to the point where Lala's mother wants a public showdown? As Lala grows older she learns the colourful tales and 'healthy lies' behind the official family legends. CARAMELO crosses the Mexican border over three generations, taking in history and cultural ironies, tragedy and huge amounts of laughter. Cisneros is a great story teller, a tantalizing conjurer of tastes and atmospheres - and the creator of characters who stomp and dance off the page into your heart.
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"This is a big, bold, vibrant novel that has plenty of stories to tell." -- Choice Magazine, January 2003
"a joy to read. ... It's a terrific book about life in exile, about the importance of family in Catholic countries." -- Uncut, February 2003
‘It’s a beautiful tale of all migrants caught between here and there. It’s a real lalapalooza.’ -- Studs Terkel, author of Working
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"a joy to read. ... It's a terrific book about life in exile, about the importance of family in Catholic countries." -- Uncut, February 2003
‘It’s a beautiful tale of all migrants caught between here and there. It’s a real lalapalooza.’ -- Studs Terkel, author of Working
‘Sandra is like a bee that extracts new honey from old flowers. And “Caramelo” is like a Mexican candy that you suck slowly, savouring it under your tongue for hours; yet it is never sticky, never sugary nor sentimental. Cisneros possesses that most difficult ability – to allow us to imagine that which never existed.’ Elena Poniatowska, author of Tinisima
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0747560625
- ISBN 13 9780747560623
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- Number of pages464
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