A haunting, almost uncanny tale of love and honor in which the three main characters move through a world of secret passions and silences. . . . [Set in Puerto Rico], scenes of impoverished farmers, madwomen, and men in coffee shops and cafes combine to form a blend of voices and landscapes whose essence can be distilled into three words: tobacco, coffee, and sugar. . . . Asa Zatz must be praised for bringing into his English version the beauty and melody of [Gonzalez's] Spanish original.--Marjorie Agosin, New York Times Book Review

Ballad of Another Time: A Novel (THE AMERICAS)

Literature & Fiction

GONZÁLEZ, JOSÉ LUIS

Literary

University of Wisconsin Press

A casi cien años de la invasión norteamericana de Puerto Rico, convendría que los puertorriqueños le diéramos una relectura a La Llegada, de José Luis González. Y no es que esa "Crónica con ficción" explique totalmente el acontecimiento histórico que ha condicionado nuestra vida de pueblo por todo un siglo, sino más bien que constituye una excepcional aportación a nuestra memoria colectiva - memoria rota- que exhibe una urgente necesidad de reparación.

La Llegada

Ediciones Huracán

Fico runs away with Rosendo Arbona and the couple is pursued by Dominga, her husband

Ballad of Another Time

Contemporary

Council Oaks Distribution

Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country and Other Essays

This work dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. It claims that the national identity is mainly Mestizo with a significant contribution from Africa, and that Puerto Ricans must acknowledge that their culture is primarily Caribbean.

History

Americas

Markus Wiener Pub

The publication of El pais de cuatro pisos (Spanish-language original version of this book) set off a frenzied debate on Puerto Rican society and cultures, now gaining in vehemence with the growing importance of Afro-American, Mestizo, and Caribbean cultures in the United States. Gonzalez dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. He claims that the national identity is primarily Mestizo with a significant contribution from Africa. Gonzalez calls the African slaves and Mestizo peasantry the first Puerto Ricans because they were the first inhabitants who had to make the island their home. Having witnessed successful uprisings in neighboring Haiti, the Spanish authorities encouraged white immigrants to settle in Puerto Rico in an attempt to "whiten" the population then thought to be tilting dangerously to the advantage of the Afro-Antilleans. These immigrants became the small but influential class of landowners and, later, urban professionals. Afro-Antilleans and Mestizos constitute the first "storey," or tier, of the "Puerto Rican house" of the title story, landowners the second, urban professionals the third, and managerial class the fourth. Gonzalez argues that a national culture must be seen and defined as something rising "from below" rather than imposed by a white minority "from above," and that Puerto Ricans must acknowledge that their culture is primarily Caribbean rather than either North American or Hispanic.

Markus Wiener Publishers

Por no amar (Spanish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

SER editorial

Dichos Y Proverbios Populares (Spanish Edition)

Classics

Edimat Libros

La llegada: Crónica con "ficción" (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

El oído de Dios.

Ediciones Era

Balada de otro tiempo (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones El Huracán

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