num_pages: 336
description: Reina and Constancia Agüero are Cuban sisters who have been estranged for thirty years. Reina--tall, darkly beautiful, and magnetically sexual--still lives in her homeland. Once a devoted daughter of la revolución, she now basks in the glow of her many admiring suitors, believing only in what she can grasp with her five senses. The pale and very petite Constancia lives in the United States, a beauty expert who sees miracles and portents wherever she looks. After she and her husband retire to Miami, she becomes haunted by the memory of her parents and the unexplained death of her beloved mother so long ago.Told in the stirring voices of their parents, their daughters, and themselves, The Agüero Sisters tells a mesmerizing story about the power of myth to mask, transform, and finally, reveal the truth--as two women move toward an uncertain, long awaited reunion.
language: English
title: The Agüero Sisters
titlecomplete: The Agüero Sisters
genres: Spanish Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical, Cultural, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 1518
places: Florida
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
publisher: Ballantine Books