Overview
Una sobresaliente colección de cuentos de uno de los autores puertorriqueños contemporáneos más destacados.
Un periodista freelance que busca el dinero para comprarle un ataúd a su difunto padre. Un desempleado cuya esperanza gira alrededor de un sofá abandonado frente a su casa. Un adolescente que encuentra el amor gracias a la adicción al NyQuil de su padre. Un hombre desesperado que roba una pistola de agua para su hijo y protagoniza un milagro equivocado: así es la vida en Levittown, uno de los proyectos suburbanos más grandes del Caribe.
Vulnerables, patéticos y con el futuro enfangado, a los personajes de este libro les falta dinero para llegar a fin de mes, pero les sobra nostalgia, rabia, ternura y salitre.
Levittown mon amour irrumpió en las letras puertorriqueñas poco después del paso del huracán María y pronto se convirtió en un retrato vivo de otro fenómeno que venía azotando la isla por décadas: el fracaso del sueño americano en el Caribe. Esta nueva edición incluye dos cuentos inéditos, «Meaíto» y «Gracias por el funeral».
«Cezanne Cardona es un escritor que rebasó la categoría de promesa: un escritor rotundo que merece leerse, aplaudirse, respetarse». —Luis Rafael Sánchez
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A resounding short story collection from one of the most remarkable contemporary Puerto Rican authors.
A freelance journalist trying to scrape together enough money to buy a coffin for his late father. An unemployed man whose last shred of hope revolves around an abandoned couch outside his house. A teenager who discovers love thanks to his father’s addiction to NyQuil. A desperate man who steals a water gun for his son and ends up performing the wrong kind of miracle—this is life in Levittown, one of the largest suburban projects in the Caribbean.
Vulnerable, pathetic, and stuck in the mud of an uncertain future, the characters in this book lack the money to make ends meet, but they overflow with nostalgia, rage, tenderness, and the scent of the sea breeze.
Levittown mon amour burst onto Puerto Rican literature shortly after Hurricane María, quickly becoming a vivid portrait of another phenomenon that had plagued the island for decades: the failure of the American dream in the Caribbean. This new edition includes two previously unpublished stories, Meaíto and Gracias por el funeral.
“Cezanne Cardona is a writer who has surpassed the category of promise: a forceful writer who deserves to be read, applauded, and respected.” —Luis Rafael Sánchez
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