A Perfect Silence

by Alba N. Ambert

novel of poverty & oppression in the South Bronx This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558851259
• ISBN13: 9781558851252
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A perfect portray of multiculturalism: a perfect silence!

If you want to understand the quiet suffering of people living in an insensitive society, belonging nowhere, searching and wanting to survive even when the thoughts of death race through one's mind: read this book! In rich evocative, poetical, yet realistic language, Alba Ambert describes a woman's life from childhood to adult life.I highly recommend this book as a former professional librarian,a current high school teacher, and as a Puertorrican woman living in the U.S. The author makes you experience the life of Blanca, her despair, her hunger, her loneliness, her inmense love, her grieving, her laughter, and her struggeling against all odds, but surviving. It is the portrayal of a life that no one wants to believe! This book was first published in Spanish in 1987, and won the award for Best novel of the year by our most prestigious instution, the Puerto Rico Institute of Literature. It also won the 1996 Carey McWilliams Award. This is a marvelously thought-provoking novel.

A celebration of the spirit and endurance of a migrant woman

A Perfect Silence is a stark and honest tale of childhood loss and abuse and its aftermath. You are pulled in and held captive throughout this celebration of the spirit and the endurance of a migrant woman. The prose is rich and poetic; every word or phrase has earned its place. A truly magnificent book. Angela Kiossoglou Adams

A celebration of the endurance and spirit of a migrant woman

The Perfect Silence is a stark and honest tale of children loss and abuse and its aftermath. You are pulled in and held captive throughout this celebration of the endurance and spirit of a migrant woman. The prose is rich and poetic; each word or phrase has earned its place. A truly magnificent book.

Universal themes in the lives of real people who prevail

Universal themes are portrayed in the lives of real people who prevail despite the odds. Unforgettable characters with Blanca, the main figure, portrayed from childhood to adult life. This book will make you laugh, make you weep. Blanca will steal your heart and make you believe.

Visionary

When I first started reading it, I decided to let it go because it was very depressing. But something about the book called me back. I am a Puerto Rican woman who was born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx and have broken away from my childhood memories, which were not as horrific but still a mental and emotional scar. The book turns out to be what most Puerto Ricn woman are in my world, survivors and good at it. Blancas life was compelling and although I see her justification for wanting to die, I finally understood her daughter still gave her reason to live. This book is captivating and I hope to enjoy more like it. It makes me proud to be a Puerto Rican woman from the Bronx and that someone finally had the vision to write what so many Latin woman experience. Sincerely, Nydia Nieves.