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001			022798
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008			110826s2008 nyuj 000 1 eng
010			_a2008004331
020			_a9781594483790
050	0	0	_aPQ7390.C52 _bI7513 2008
082	0	0	_aLAS FIC CHA
100	1		_aChaviano, Daína _d, 1957-
240	1	0	_aIsla de los amores infinitos _l. English
245	1	4	_aThe island of eternal love _c/ Daína Chaviano ; translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger
260			_aNew York _b: Riverhead Books _c, 2008.
300			_axi, 318 p. _b: geneal. tables _c; 24 cm.
500			_a"First published in Spanish by Grijalbo ... 2006"--T.p. verso.
520			_aAn enchanting multi-generational epic of three families from Africa, Spain, and China and their bond to one another and the island they call home. Cecilia is alone in a city that haunts her. Life in Miami evokes memories of Cuba: a scent in the breeze like the sea at the Malec n; the beat of a clave recalls island evenings when couples danced to forgotten rhythms. Far from her family, her history, and her home, Cecilia seeks refuge in a bar in Little Havana, where a mysterious old woman's fascinating tale keeps her returning night after night. It is a story of three families from opposite corners of the world from Africa, Spain, and China that spans more than a century. Within it, a Chinese widow seeks protection for her daughter in her family's idols; an African slave brings the rhythms of her birth to an enchanted isl? and a curse dances before the female descendants of a charmed Spanish matriarch, forming the mythic origins of one family's indestructible bond. The connection strengthens with each generation into a legendary, unbreakable love. Under the story's heady sway, Cecilia begins to discover the source of the elusive shadows that plague her and, along with it, a link to the past she cannot shake.
650		0	_aCubans _z--Florida _v--Fiction
700	1		_aLabinger, Andrea G.
942			_cLAS
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