Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo: A Story in English and Spanish

Sandra Cisneros

Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo: A Story in English and Spanish
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
7 September 2021
Pages
128
ISBN
9780593313664

Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo: A Story in English and Spanish

Sandra Cisneros

The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past.

As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafes of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call home from a broken pay phone. But the months of befriending panhandling artists in the metro, sleeping on crowded floors, and dancing the tango at underground parties are given a lasting glow by her intense friendships with Martita and Paola. Over the years the three women disperse to three continents, falling out of touch and out of mind-until a rediscovered letter brings Corina’s days in Paris back with breathtaking immediacy.

Martita, I Remember You is a rare bottle from Sandra Cisneros’s own special reserve, preserving the smoke and the sparkle of an exceptional year. Told with intimacy and searing tenderness, this tribute to the life-changing power of youthful friendship is Cisneros at her vintage best, in a beautiful dual-language edition.

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