Cristina Garcia, Author . Knopf $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-41056-7
The Chinese-Cuban experience is plumbed in this graceful third novel by Garcia (Dreaming in Cuban; The Agüero Sisters), encompassing five far-flung generations, four countries and two tumultuous centuries. Farm boy Chen Pan leaves his native...
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Cristina Garcia, Author . Knopf $24 (259p) ISBN 978-0-307-26436-7
García's solid triptych opens in 1968, where Enrique Florit is a nine-year-old struggling to retain memories of his mother, who died in a bizarre accident in Cuba during one of his father Fernando's magic acts. Father and son relocate
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Cristina Garcia, Author . Simon & Schuster $16.99 (198p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3928-3
One features a nice girl, the other a bad girl, but they both make music.
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
Cristina García
. Simon & Schuster
, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4169-3928-3
García's (Dreaming in Cuban
) exceptional ability to...
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Cristina García, Scribner, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8174-4
Sensual prose softens the crushing blows that life doles out to almost every character in this latest from García (Dreaming in Cuban), in which six lives cross paths in a luxury hotel somewhere in the tropics of Central America. It's a gloomy...
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Cristina Garcia, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-45090-0
If her accomplished first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, marked Garcia as a writer to watch, this compelling and resonant story of thwarted relationships, intense, unslaked desires and family secrets surely confirms her promise. Set mainly in Cuba and...
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Cristina Garc%C3%ADa. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7920-3
In this standout coming-of-age novel beginning in 1971, García (I Wanna Be Your Shoebox) hones the voices of three characters from vastly different backgrounds who forge transformative friendships over three summers in an exclusive Swiss school. As...
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Cristina Garcia. Scribner, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4767-1024-2
In her fun new novel, Garcia (Dreaming in Cuban) explores the hatred Goyo Herrera, an expatriate geriatric Cuban, harbors toward his arch enemy El Comandante, a contemporary who still wields formidable power in their homeland. El Comandante...
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Cristina Garcia. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-61902-959-0
A nameless Visitor, lonely and insecure, spends several months in Berlin during 2013, absorbing the stories of dozens of people whose lives have been shaped, or twisted out of shape, by the Second World War and its aftermath. With the vividness—and...
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Cristina Garcia. Knopf, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-53474-8
Garcia revisits characters from Dreaming in Cuban for this rich if uneven story of the del Pino family. It’s 1999 and matriarch Celia del Pino, 90, remains one of the family’s lone holdouts still residing in Havana. She’s enamored with Gustavo, a...
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