Reina and Constancia Agüero are Cuban sisters who have been estranged for thirty years. Reina--tall, darkly beautiful, and magnetically sexual--still lives in her homeland. Once a devoted daughter of la revolución, she now basks in the...

Here in Berlin von García, Cristina

A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story...

In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina García follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America. Wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is...

"King of Cuba: A Novel" von Cristina Garcia ist eine fiktive Darstellung des Lebens eines kubanischen Diktators, der stark an Fidel Castro erinnert. Das Buch folgt zwei Hauptfiguren: dem alternden Diktator El Comandante und einem...

"Monkey Hunting" von Cristina Garcia ist eine Familiensaga, die sich über mehrere Generationen erstreckt und die Geschichte der Familie Chen erzählt. Es beginnt mit Chen Pan, einem chinesischen Arbeiter, der 1857 seine Heimat verlässt,...