Caramelo

  • Author: Sandra Cisneros
  • Narrator: Sandra Cisneros
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 15:42:39
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Synopsis

Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo—, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip—a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels—from Chicago to "the other side": Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family's stories, separating the truth from the "healthy lies" that have ricocheted from one generation to the next. We travel from the Mexico City that was the "Paris of the New World" to the music-filled streets of Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties—and finally, to Lala's own difficult adolescence in the not-quite-promised land of San Antonio, Texas.

Caramelo is a vital, wise, romantic tale of homelands, sometimes real, sometimes imagined. Vivid, funny, intimate, historical, it is a brilliant work destined to become a classic: a major new novel from one of our country's most beloved storytellers.

Chapters

  • Caramelo Side 01

    Duration: 44min
  • Caramelo Side 02

    Duration: 46min
  • Caramelo Side 03

    Duration: 51min
  • Caramelo Side 04

    Duration: 47min
  • Caramelo Side 05

    Duration: 43min
  • Caramelo Side 06

    Duration: 43min
  • Caramelo Side 07

    Duration: 52min
  • Caramelo Side 08

    Duration: 48min
  • Caramelo Side 09

    Duration: 46min
  • Caramelo Side 10

    Duration: 43min
  • Caramelo Side 11

    Duration: 51min
  • Caramelo Side 12

    Duration: 42min
  • Caramelo Side 13

    Duration: 48min
  • Caramelo Side 14

    Duration: 33min
  • Caramelo Side 15

    Duration: 53min
  • Caramelo Side 16

    Duration: 47min
  • Caramelo Side 17

    Duration: 49min
  • Caramelo Side 18

    Duration: 50min
  • Caramelo Side 19

    Duration: 50min
  • Caramelo Side 20

    Duration: 45min
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