El agua del paraíso (The
Water of Paradise) - April 2008
El agua del paraíso
(The Water of Paradise) invites
the reader to a lost Eden where myth, history
and legend intertwine to tell the tale of
characters marked by adversity and existential
twists of fate. The ocean, the sea, the river
and waterfalls form the aquatic environs that
frame a poetic narrative canvas that
simultaneously glides through time and forgotten
places. In this setting of water and myth, four
women come to represent a matriarchy sustained
by tradition while attempting to shape an
uncertain future where progress and the world of
men can be both overwhelming and perplexing. The
novel is constructed in diverse geographic
spaces: from millinery Galicia and mythical
Ireland to the islands of Africa, with the great
majority of the plot occurring in the Caribbean,
where the four generations of females forge
their lives. The emancipating character of
nature is the crucial element that will rise up
and liberate these women from the universal
exigency of men. (229 pages)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4363-2567-7
ISBN-10: 1-4363-2567-6 EXCERPT
Nena,
nena de mi corazón (Beloved, Beloved of My
Heart) - December 2006
Nena, nena de mi corazón (Beloved, Beloved of My
Heart) is a text on Latino displacement
throughout the world. The principle characters
circulate and circumnavigate in multiple
geographic, political, historical and social
spheres pertaining to the ever-changing Hispanic
reality. They fragment all boundaries,
destroying national utopias to capture glimpses
of themselves within social parameters at times
distorted and at other times exchanged for
unions, erroneous or reinvented, that permit
them to be placed within order or chaos of the
new world vision. The feminine figure is the
central axis to define and redefine the earthly,
mystic and spiritual human essence. The book
represents a dialogue with its predecessor
Cuestión de hombres (A Matter of Men), where the
masculine figure delved into and questioned the
absurd preambles that insisted on constraining
the nucleus of its being. (143 pages) (Fiction)
ISBN-13:
978-1-4257-3621-7
ISBN-10: 1-4257-3621-1
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Cuestión
de hombres (A Matter of Men) - December 2006
The
second edition of this collection of nine short
stories, Cuestión de hombres,
includes an eloquent prologue by the writer and
professor, Carlos Manuel Rivera, PhD.
Cuestión
de hombres (A Matter of Men)
navigates the treacherous waters of masculine
sexuality, plotting the conditions that define
manhood: from the boy initiated in the ritual of
his sex to all of the Latino male stereotypes,
from the super-macho to the closeted homosexual,
with variations in between. This masculine
diversity can be seen in human interaction,
driven to extremes by society’s predefined
rules. The journey in search of masculinity
includes incursions ranging from deceitful
pleasure to the purest of loves. (108 pages)
ISBN-13:
978-1-4257-3068-0
ISBN-10:
1-4257-3068-X
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Cartas a la sombra de
tu piel (Letters to the shadow of your love) -
2002
Navigating
the parameters of Cartas a la sombra de
tu piel, a vortex of melodious verdant
hues traps the reader in a jungle of
premonitions. There, love becomes flesh, real to
the tact of the other, the sweat of the beloved,
the man’s skin … and yet transcending the
corporal, the material. This journey leads to
unknown lands, inaugurated by a love that
creates and re-creates itself in the sphere of a
new reality where everyday variables do not
apply, making it necessary to institute an
unwritten language to describe this world, this
world of love. (Poetry)
ISBN:
9709339400
Pages: 80
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El agua del paraíso
(novel),
Nena, nena de mi corazón and
Cuestión de hombres
(the two short story collections) are
available via Xlibris.com. All of the author's titles
can be purchased through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble,
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book sources. (Some book sellers may not have
the novel in stock until June 2008.) Wholesale distribution is provided by
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