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Siempre Paris (Reclaiming Paris)

by Fabiola Santiago
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Overview

Fabiola Santiago, periodista premiada del Miami Herald, cuenta la historia de una mujer que cambia de perfume cada vez que cambia de amante, mientras se repone de las heridas causadas por la pérdida de su familia y su país.

Marisol, archivista de materiales históricos y poeta exuberante, es dueña de un espíritu libre y sensual, al igual que su ciudad adoptiva, Miami. Siempre Paris es un canto al lugar y a la memoria, rebosante de humor, pasión y personajes inolvidables.

Synopsis

"Los hombres son como los perfumes. En un
instante, sin más juicio que mi ágil olfato, o me
enamoro de ellos o los echo a un lado".

Marisol es una exuberante poeta y archivista de historia que vive en el Miami contemporáneo. Al igual que su ciudad adoptiva, ella es un espíritu libre y sensual. Nacida en Cuba y transplantada a una temprana edad en la Florida, lleva dentro una nostalgia por la legendaria isla en que nació y que apenas recuerda. Su pasión por los olores la inspira a adoptar un perfume diferente cada vez que se embarca en una nueva relación amorosa. Tras la muerte de su querida abuela y una sucesión de malogrados romances sensuales, Marisol concluye que debe liberarse de las ataduras de su historia, abandonar causas perdidas y refugiarse en el único santuario que siempre va con ella: su propio corazón errante. Liberada al fin de su añoranza por la vieja Habana, "el París del Caribe", su romántico exilio está llamado a emprender una nueva vida. Privada de reclamar La Habana como suya, opta por su verdadero destino: París. Y es así que Marisol se lanza a desbrozar el camino hacia su futuro.

Salvando la distancia entre el Miami efervescente de hoy y la mística Cuba de ayer, Siempre París es un canto a la geografía y la memoria, una obra repleta de humor, pasión y personajes inolvidables.

Library Journal

Marisol, a 30-something historian for the Miami Museum of History, recounts in jumbled retrospect the tale of her sometimes idealized, sometimes difficult childhood in Cuba. After her father's early death and her mother's subsequent unbalance, Marisol is raised by her loving grandmother, and the two emigrate to the Cuban Miami of the Vietnam era. Santiago focuses on Marisol's love life, from her first crush as a little girl to a succession of Miami émigrés, including a political refugee who despises the bourgeois life to which Marisol aspires, and a cardiologist who shares Marisol's nostalgic yearnings for the Cuba of old, but will not leave his wife for her. Different perfumes delineate various phases of Marisol's life (with Wind Song, White Linen and others serving as section headings). Santiago brings together the expected elements of an immigrant's tale of self-discovery and redemption. [PW 6/16/08]
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About the Author, Fabiola Santiago

Fabiola Santiago has been a writer and editor for The Miami Herald since 1980. She was the founding city editor of the Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald, and shared in a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Elián

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From the Publisher

"Este es un libro increíblemente bueno, lleno de sabiduría y extraordinario erotismo...su prosa es tan impresionante y sensual como la de Anaïs Nin en el clásico Delta de Venus". — St. Petersburg Times

"Rica en matices....Verdaderamente excepcional — un relato a la vez erótico e inteligente". — Kirkus Reviews

Library Journal

Marisol, a 30-something historian for the Miami Museum of History, recounts in jumbled retrospect the tale of her sometimes idealized, sometimes difficult childhood in Cuba. After her father's early death and her mother's subsequent unbalance, Marisol is raised by her loving grandmother, and the two emigrate to the Cuban Miami of the Vietnam era. Santiago focuses on Marisol's love life, from her first crush as a little girl to a succession of Miami émigrés, including a political refugee who despises the bourgeois life to which Marisol aspires, and a cardiologist who shares Marisol's nostalgic yearnings for the Cuba of old, but will not leave his wife for her. Different perfumes delineate various phases of Marisol's life (with Wind Song, White Linen and others serving as section headings). Santiago brings together the expected elements of an immigrant's tale of self-discovery and redemption. [PW 6/16/08]
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Book Details

Published
August 1, 2009
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781439138687

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