num_pages: 464
description: The celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy—the very stuff of life.
language: English
title: Caramelo
titlecomplete: Caramelo
genres: Fiction, Family, Coming Of Age, Latin American, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 12007
places: Mexico City (México City), Chicago, Illinois, Mexico
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Knopf, 2002