Loosing my Espanish
Subtitle: a novel
By: H.G. Carrillo.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Cuban Americans -- Fiction.; Community life -- Fiction.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Loosing My Espanish chronicles the struggles and vicissitudes of the men and women of a tiny Cuban-American community in Chicago who are haunted by history, memory, and myth as they encounter the American dream." "Oscar Delossantos has recently been dismissed for a perceived indiscretion from the Jesuit boys' high school where he has taught for twenty-two years. As his last semester comes to an end, he gives a daring, extended final history lesson: a kaleidoscopic portrait of Cuba as it exists in the hearts and minds of its exiled and dispossessed." "In Oscar's tale, the weather is a system of extremes; a boy disappears through a hole in the ice; a tender love story unfolds; a murder of crows wreaks havoc; an old woman at the onset of Alzheimer's burns down her house; sex, religion, family lore, gossip, and both official and reconfigured history all play their part. Throughout Oscar's raw, sometimes hallucinatory, lyrical testament - at once heartbreaking and ennobling - he reveals not only the shape and substance of his own life, but also the hard, vital, vivid life of his entire community."--BOOK JACKET.