Carmen La Coja: una novela

Authors: Castillo, Ana
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FOR026000
ISBN: 9780307554963, Related ISBNs: 0307554961, 0375724680, 9780307554963, 9780375724688
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 240,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

En Carmen la coja, el seductor y exuberante mundo flamenco sirve de telón de fondo para una historia clásica de independencia alcanzada, perdida y reclamada. Como la legendaria gitana de Bizet, Carmen “La Coja” Santos es apasionada, magnética y a menudo ocurrente. Carmen, una renombrada bailarina flamenca en Chicago a pesar de tener una pierna maltrecha a causa de un ataque de polio durante su niñez, ha mantenido un largo romance con Agustín, el director del grupo de baile, quien es casado—un romance que comienza a tornarse rancio. Pero cuando ella inicia una nueva y fogosa relación con Manolo, el ahijado de Agustín y un excelente bailarín, una rivalidad colérica estalla entre ellos. Al mismo tiempo, Carmen tiene una recaída y la agria relación con su madre da un penoso giro.

De cómo Carmen finalmente logra alcanzar la felicidad en el amor y en su vocación es una historia divertida y fogosa—telenovela, tragicomedia y rapsodia—, una agridulce y exitosa novela acerca de vivir la vida con feroz intensidad.

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