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In Tome, a small, seemingly sleepy New Mexico hamlet, Sofia and her four fated daughters reveal a world of marvels where the comic and horrific, past and present, real and fantastic coexist and collide. Over two crowded decades, Sofia tries to hold things together following the disappearance of her husband, Domingo, he of the Clark Gable mustache and the uncontrollable gambling habit. Adventurous Esperanza, Chicana campus radical turned television news reporter, travels farthest from home only to be reeled back in spirit.

Goddess of the Americas is a brilliant essay collection and an impassioned, unorthodox celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe: mother goddess, patron saint of Mexico, protector of the downtrodden, who made her first appearance on American soil in 1531. Through a variety of forms -- original...

Recently divorced, Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison. Her sexual obsession with him flares as she checks out her other options, but their family secrets bring them together in unexpected ways. In this wildly entertaining and sexy novel, Ana Castillo creates a memorable character with a flare for fashion, a longing for family, and a penchant for adventure.

A renowned flamenco dancer in Chicago despite the legacy of childhood polio, Carmen has long enjoyed an affair with Agustín, the married director of her troupe—a romance that's now growing stale. When she begins a passionate new liaison with Manolo, Agustín's grandson and a dancer of natural genius, an angry rivalry is sparked. Carmen finally makes her way back to happiness in this funny, fiery story that's equal parts soap opera, tragicomedy, and rhapsody.

Te invitamos a escuchar "Música Antigua de la Tierra Caliente"Una docuserie sobre el surgimiento del Archivo Sonoro de la Tierra Caliente "Leandro Corona Bedolla", el proceso de revitalización de la música tradicional y los repertorios antiguos de la Tierra Caliente, en los municipios de La Huacana y Churumuco, Michoacán, México. En esta serie daremos un breve recorrido por manifestaciones de la música de los conjuntos de arpa grande, el baile de tabla, relatos y anécdotas de personajes, músicos legendarios y manifestaciones de la música religiosa en los albores del siglo XX hasta ...

From Ana Castillo, the widely praised author of So Far from God and The Guardians, comes this collection of stories on the experience of love in all its myriad configurations. Infectiously moody and murderously comic, this collection chronicles the rapturous beginnings, melancholy middles, and bittersweet endings of modern romance between men and women, men and men, and women and women.

In Sapogonia, award-winning author Ana Castillo confronts the complex issues of race and identity facing those of mixed heritage through the struggles of Máximo Madrigal, an expatriate of Sapogonia, the metaphorical homeland of all mestizos. Subtly political, it demonstrates how warring blood within a single body resists any peaceful resolution.

Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women—Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist—this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and female friendship. This groundbreaking debut novel received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and is widely studied as a feminist text on the nature of self-conflict.

«Ana Castillo es un tesoro estadounidense. Temeraria, compasiva y absolutamente brillante: es la escritora que necesitamos mientras enfrentamos los retos de nuestro mundo cambiante». —Tayari Jones, autora de Un matrimonio americano «Ana Castillo es una narradora de primera». —Julia...

“Ana Castillo is an American treasure. Fearless, compassionate, and flat-out brilliant—she is the writer we need as we navigate the challenges of our ever-changing world.”—Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage “Ana Castillo is de primera storyteller.”—award-winning author...

En las hábiles manos de Ana Castillo este asombroso lugar se nos revela como un sitio de maravillas, lleno de vida y conflictos: del pasado con el presente, lo real con lo sobrenatural, lo cómico con lo horrífico, las tradiciones nativas con lo latino y lo "anglo," las mujeres con los hombres. Con voz íntima y locuaz, con la libertad narrativa de una Cervantes del suroeste norteamericano, Castillo relata la historia de dos décadas atestadas en la vida de una familia chicana.

Esta novela de Ana Castillo, autora aclamada por la crítica, es un juego de pasión, amor e independencia. Carmen la coja es la historia de una bailarina de Chicago físicamente impedida desafiando los estereotipos sociales. Carmen Santos inicia un romance con Manolo por el cual se definirá su vida.

From American Book Award—winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving new novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking...

Las mejores plumas de nuestra literatura se enfundaron en alguna ocasión los guantes de cuero rojo para acercarse al mundo de narices rotas, toallas a punto de caer, orgullos fracturados, amaños a deshora, y besos a la única que se deja querer: la lona. Los hemos reunido para así trazar un...