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008			101110s2007 nyu 000 1 eng
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050	0	0	_aPQ7440.M56 _bC3713 2005
082	0	0	_aLAS FIC MON
100	1		_aMontero Mayra, 1952-
240	1	0	_aCapitán de los dormidos _l. English
245	1	0	_aCaptain of the sleepers _c/ Mayra Montero ; translated by Edith Grossman
250			_a1st Picador ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Picador _c, 2007.
300			_a181 p. _c; 22 cm.
500			_aTranslation of: El capitán de los dormidos.
520			_aThe yearnings of adolescence clash with adult passions romantic and political in a sensuous, languid novel set in Puerto Rico during the 1950s nationalist movement. Told in flashback, the narrative alternates between the year 2000, when the protagonist, Andres Yasin, and pilot J.T. Bunker, the titular captain, confront each other in old age over a memory questioned and a story untold, and half a century earlier, on the island of Vieques. In 1950, the Captain had an affair with 12-year-old Andres's mother, Estela, who was married to a Vieques hotel owner, but also in love with a rogue nationalist named Roberto. As the Puerto Rican nationalist movement comes to a head and Estela caves to passion with Roberto, Andres's family splinters, and he blames the Captain. Montero's atmospheric, minimal prose beautifully conjures the sensitivity, ardor and craving for normality that define adolescence. Exquisite flashes of lust and corrosive jealousy, among the adults and young Andres alike, vivify the narrative with such evocative phrases as "a look of such gratitude - that carnal, fiery gratitude filled with passwords." Though the enigmatic Estela leaves an unsatisfying void at the novel's center, Montero artfully choreographs the confluence of family, romantic and revolutionary ardor.
650		4	_aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) _v--Fiction
650		4	_aHotelkeepers _x--Fiction
651		4	_aPuerto Rico
700	1		_aGrossman, Edith, 1936-
942			_cLAS
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