Fe en disfraz

by Mayra Santos-Febres

Overview

Fe en disfraz es una novela para todos los tiempos y para beberse como una taza de café negro y engullirse como un manjar. Viajé con Mayra Santos-Febres y nunca me sentí tan arropada tanto por su literatura como por su inteligente escritura, cálida como ella misma, cálida como el mar del Caribe.
Fe en disfraz se lee como un remedio a todos los males. Mayra nos dice: "El tiempo no existe y todo lo que existe es tiempo" y el tiempo con ella se vuelve frutal, vivible, y nos revela el movimiento de las estrellas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781616058906
Publisher:	Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA
Publication date:	12/20/2011
Sold by:	PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	826,169
File size:	349 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

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Editorial Reviews

Puerto Rican Santos Febres is a wellknown, awardwinning author and academic whose stories and novels have been translated into English and several other languages. Martín Tirado, a young academic from Puerto Rico working in Chicago, becomes obsessed with his mysterious colleague, Fe Verdejo, and ends up leaving his fiancée. Although this is an ordinary plotline, Martín and Fe's ensuing relationship exposes the roles of religion, class, race, and gender in colonial Latin America. Santos Febres manipulates these constructions in the past and present, using both her characters and her narrative to discuss everything from 18thcentury archives to modernday virtual web presentations. In effect, the ambiguity of Fe's character (which we never really penetrate) poses the question, Is she the researcher disguising herself as a slave or vice versa? The novel intentionally leaves readers with unanswered questions. The male firstperson narrative and strongly erotic content (both customary of the author's style) enhance this wellwritten novel, which is sure to become a literary classic. Recommended for all libraries and bookstores.—Sophie Lavoie, Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton
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