Dominicana / Angie Cruz ; traducción de Kianny N. Antigua.
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TextLanguage: Spanish Original language: English Publisher: New York : Editorial Siete Cuentos, [2021]Description: 399 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781644210703
- Dominicana. Spanish
- Arranged marriage -- Fiction
- Matrimonio arreglado -- Novela
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- Emigrantes -- Novela
- Families -- Fiction
- Familias -- Novela
- Dominicans (Dominican Republic) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Dominicos (República Dominicana) -- Novela
- Dominican Republic -- History -- Revolution, 1965 -- Fiction
- República Dominicana -- Historia -- Novela
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- 813/.6 23
- PS3603.R89 D6618 2021
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Wasatch County Library First Floor | Spanish Adult Fiction | F Cruz (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34301002105460 |
"On the last day of 1964, fifteen-year-old Ana Canción marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican countryside. The following day she becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a one-bedroom in Washington Heights. Juan is unfaithful, abusive, and controlling, he even forbids her from learning English. After a failed escape, Ana learns she is pregnant. Both her mother and husband compare her pregnancy to winning the lottery, her child will have American citizenship. Juan returns briefly to the Dominican Republic when the civil war begins, leaving César, his brother, to care for Ana. During that respite from confinement she experiences true love, which awakens her will to fight for independence from her abuser and for the right to stay in her adopted homeland. A timeless portrait of womanhood and citizenship, which rings true in this era of forced migration"--
"El último día de 1964, la quinceañera Ana Canción se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre veinte años mayor que ella, en el campo dominicano. Al día siguiente se vuelve Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada a un apartamento de un cuarto en Washington Heights. Juan la engaña, abusa y controla, hasta le prohíbe aprender inglés. Después de un intento fallido de fuga, Ana se entera de que está embarazada. Su madre y su esposo comparan su embarazo a ganar la lotería, su niña tendrá ciudadanía estadounidense. Juan vuelve a la República Dominicana cuando la guerra civil comienza, dejando a César, su hermano, cuidando a Ana. Durante ese descanso del confinamiento ella se enamora genuinamente, lo cual despierta su voluntad de pelear por independizarse de su abusador y por su derecho de permanecer en su patria adoptiva. Un retrato atemporal de feminidad y ciudadanía, que sigue vigente en esta época de migración forzada."
Text in Spanish, translated from the English.
