![]() ![]() Cisneros is aware of her position and its responsibilities, and Caramelo occasionally feels as though she's trying to articulate an entire century of Mexican-American relations.Ĭaramelo is a densely worked generational saga structured as a triptych linked by the voice of Celaya: as a child observing her riotous, fractious, loving family in the first part, set in Mexico an adult writer wrangling tales from her Awful Grandmother's ghost in the second and as a streetwise and vulnerable American adoles cent in the third. ![]() There are 39 million Latinos in the US, but only a handful of Latino authors - others are Julia Alvarez, Oscar Hijuelos and Junot Diaz - are recognised in mainstream America. ![]() With her short-story collection Woman Hollering Creek (1991), she also became the first Chicana writer to be published by a major New York house. A spare and beautiful near-prose-poem about a working-class Latina adolescent, it slowly became a phenomenon: it's now taught all over America and has sold about two million copies in 11 languages, making Cisneros (who began as and still is a poet) the bestselling Latino author in the US. Cisneros's first novel, The House on Mango Street, was brought out by a small Houston publisher 18 years ago. ![]()
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