| Author: | Sandra Benitez | ISBN: | 9781566892841 |
| Publisher: | Coffee House Press | Publication: | April 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Coffee House Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sandra Benitez |
| ISBN: | 9781566892841 |
| Publisher: | Coffee House Press |
| Publication: | April 1, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Coffee House Press |
| Language: | English |
**A universal portrait and an insider’s look at life in Latin America in this “**vivid, graceful, tautly constructed” novel of love, anger, hope, and tragedy (Tim O’Brien).
At the heart of this “profound . . . quietly stunning work that leaves soft tracks in the heart” is Chayo, the flower-seller, and her husband Candelario, the salad-maker, who finally may be blessed with the child they thought they would never have (The Washington Post Book World). Their cause for happiness, however, triggers a series of events that marks the lives of everyone in the small village of Santiago, Mexico.
Woven into Chayo’s and Candelario’s story are an unforgettable array of characters: Marta, the hotel maid who reads cast-off American magazines and dreams of El Paso; don Justo, the heartbroken fortune-teller; Esperanza, the midwife who finds new love with Rafael, the shy schoolteacher. Their secret dreams and desires are known only to the omniscient sea and to the curandera Remedios, a healer who hears them all.
Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
**A universal portrait and an insider’s look at life in Latin America in this “**vivid, graceful, tautly constructed” novel of love, anger, hope, and tragedy (Tim O’Brien).
At the heart of this “profound . . . quietly stunning work that leaves soft tracks in the heart” is Chayo, the flower-seller, and her husband Candelario, the salad-maker, who finally may be blessed with the child they thought they would never have (The Washington Post Book World). Their cause for happiness, however, triggers a series of events that marks the lives of everyone in the small village of Santiago, Mexico.
Woven into Chayo’s and Candelario’s story are an unforgettable array of characters: Marta, the hotel maid who reads cast-off American magazines and dreams of El Paso; don Justo, the heartbroken fortune-teller; Esperanza, the midwife who finds new love with Rafael, the shy schoolteacher. Their secret dreams and desires are known only to the omniscient sea and to the curandera Remedios, a healer who hears them all.
Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
