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Title: The House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferre ISBN: 0-452-27707-8 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (21 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Novel Experience
Comment: I read this book on the recommendation of a friend who is a Puertorriqueno-Americano. He read it in Espanol and loved it. I read it in English and truly enjoyed the beauty of the writing and extremely well crafted characters. Three houses on the lagoon was a stretch of the imagination. I learned at least one woman's perspective of Puerto Rican history and culture presented in a highly palatable form. I have no idea of how well it represents reality (which -- as the book illustrates -- is highly dependent on the eye of the beholder). As a fan of detective novels I ended up thinking that the author killed off more characters than the average thriller. I concluded that Quintin knew the number to the Swiss bank account -- just a strong impression. The book made me want to take my next Caribbean vacation in Puerto Rico. My friend warned me not to expect to find the house on the lagoon which seemed so real to me. Accepted for what it is, this is a fine book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent
Comment: Wonderfully planned and written. I was so drawn into the story and life that I treasured each page I absorbed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning Intertextuality
Comment: Rosario Ferré is without doubt a formidable writer with broad literary formation (holding a doctorate in Latin American literature) and impressive versatility in genres: short story, poetry, essay, novelist. She joins that welcomed and exciting cadre of Latina writers who skillfully articulates profound feminist concerns in their respective societies. In THE HOUSE ON THE LAGOON, Ferré presents two of her constantly recurring themes that form the core of her literary trajectory: Puerto Rican reality past and present ... the agonizing socio-psychological consequences produced by the unique historical-political-economic link to the United States; and Latina feminism accompanied by society's ugly prejudicial response. This story offers a highly critical view of Puerto Rican society with a bold reinterpretation of her island's history. As in all her tales and essays (as she herself has revealed) there is a thinly veiled autobiographical reflection. Ferré crafts a stunning literary language that expresses itself via surreal images similar to those that characterized the vanguard writers and visual artists of the opening decades of the twentieth century. In Spanish we call the technique "desdoblamiento" -- the exposition or unfolding of images to narrate the events afflicting her protagonists. It perhaps functions more intensively in the original Spanish. But what results in essence is a mystical fusion of fiction and reality ... magical realism. This is a mesmerizing work by an extremely talented writer and is highly recommended.
Alan Cambeira
Author of AZUCAR! The Story of Sugar (a novel)
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Title: Eccentric Neighborhoods by Rosario Ferre ISBN: 0452280648 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Julia Alvarez ISBN: 0452268060 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende ISBN: 0553273914 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1986 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings-An Anthology by Roberto Santiago ISBN: 0345395026 Publisher: One World Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Stories from Puerto Rico by Robert L. Muckley, Adela Martinez-Santiago ISBN: 0844204021 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 11 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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