Dominicana
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Translated from the English.
"El último día de 1964, la quinceañera Ana Canción se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre veinte años mayor que ella, en el campo dominicano. Al día siguiente se vuelve Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada a un apartamento de un cuarto en Washington Heights. Juan la engaña, abusa y controla, hasta le prohíbe aprender inglés. Después de un intento fallido de fuga, Ana se entera de que está embarazada. Su madre y su esposo comparan su embarazo a ganar la lotería, su niña tendrá ciudadanía estadounidense. Juan vuelve a la República Dominicana cuando la guerra civil comienza, dejando a César, su hermano, cuidando a Ana. Durante ese descanso del confinamiento ella se enamora genuinamente, lo cual despierta su voluntad de pelear por independizarse de su abusador y por su derecho de permanecer en su patria adoptiva. Un retrato atemporal de feminidad y ciudadanía, que sigue vigente en esta época de migración forzada" -- Provided by publisher.
"On the last day of 1964, fifteen-year-old Ana Canción marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican countryside. The following day she becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a one-bedroom in Washington Heights. Juan is unfaithful, abusive, and controlling, he even forbids her from learning English. After a failed escape, Ana learns she is pregnant. Both her mother and husband compare her pregnancy to winning the lottery, her child will have American citizenship. Juan returns briefly to the Dominican Republic when the civil war begins, leaving César, his brother, to care for Ana. During that respite from confinement she experiences true love, which awakens her will to fight for independence from her abuser and for the right to stay in her adopted homeland. A timeless portrait of womanhood and citizenship, which rings true in this era of forced migration"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Editorial Siete Cuentos / Seven Stories Press, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 399 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781644210703
1644210703
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Antigua, Kianny N.,
SUBJECTS
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Dominicans (Dominican Republic) -- New York -- Fiction.
Arranged marriage -- Fiction.
Familles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Dominicains (Peuple) -- New York -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mariage arrangé -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Dominican Republic -- History -- Revolution, 1965 -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
République dominicaine -- Histoire -- 1965 (Révolution) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Spanish language materials.
Novela hogareña.
Novela histórica.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.