Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City

By Alicia Yánez Cossío

Book Overview

Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City chronicles a wealthy, eccentric family with an ancient presence in northern Ecuador. Bruna's past is dominated by ghosts and scandals that linger in the old... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810114089
• ISBN13: 9780810114081
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

The translation on this book, a total challenge

The narrative force of this book makes that this novel describes the very same life of the author using characters, handle them with so much mastery, that pass so easily from the remembrances of the author's to reality. In fact, all the characters existed and they are taken to this novel from the memories of Alicia Yanez with her very own style and beauty to a novel.