Ana Menéndez

In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd

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Eleven short stories of the Cuban immigrant experience as characters adjust to life in the United Sates, from an award-winning author. From the prize-winning title story-a masterpiece of humor and heartbreak-unfolds a collection of tales that illuminate the landscape of an exiled community rich in heritage, memory, and longing for the past. In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd is at once tender and sharp-fanged as Ana Menéndez evocatively charts the territory from Havana to Coral Gables, Florida, and explores whether any of us are capable, or even truly desirous, of outrunning our origins (LA Weekly). With the grace of Margaret Atwood and the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Mingarelli, Hubert

ISBN: 978-1-55584-787-6
EAN: 9781555847876
Produktnummer: 31911168
Verlag: Grove Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 244 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'132 KB

Über den Autor

Ana Menéndez is the daughter of Cuban exiles who fled to Los Angeles in the 1960s and married a few months after meeting at a Cuban social club in Glendale. Menéndez worked as a journalist for six years, first at The Miami Herald, where she covered Little Havana, and later with The Orange County Register in California. She is a graduate of NYU's creative writing program, where she was a New York Times fellow. In Cuba IWas a German Shepherd has been translated into eight languages.