Etiqueta: Rosario Ferre

Available in Spanish for the first time in the United States. From Rosario Ferré (nominated for the National Book Award for The House on the Lagoon), her first work of fiction, long out of print in any edition, in the original Spanish and including a previously unpublished story and two poems. Papeles de Pandora contains […]

A young boy is abandoned and, although he is very hungry, he saves half an egg that soon becomes half a chick. This story awakens the young readers feelings of friendship and solidarity.

A collection of landscapes by Sobrino (b. Puerto Rico), with a defined horizon line dividing sea and land expressing the artists visual and metaphorical perception of limited versus open-free spaces. The exhibition includes some of his installations, wire drawings that reveal Third World idle life in contrast to cybernetic frenzy.

When Pedro decides to travel the world, his mother gives him a hat and tells him never to remove it. The hat possesses magical powers and the king orders Pedros head to be cut off. But with the help of the hats magical powers and townspeople, Pedros life is saved.

A retelling of the folktale about the criollo cockroach who has many suitors but choses the gentlemanly mouse unaware of his weakness for food. At dinnertime during their first day of marriage, he cannot wait for the meal to be served and jumps into the boiling pot, subsequently dying.

Se trata de la historia de una bailarina mundialmente famosa que, en el 1917, visita a Puerto Rico en gira artística y se enamora locamente de un atrevido revolucionario al que le dobla de edad –Forro.