La casa de la laguna: (The House on the Lagoon - Spanish-language edition) Paperback - 1997

En una hermosa mansin con vista a la laguna de Alamares, Isabel Montfort est escribiendo la crnica de su familia. Es un relato de aventura e intriga, de inmigrantes espaoles y corsos, de esclavos africanos, de poltica sexual y de luchas polticas, de maridos autoritarios y esposas que ingeniosamente subvierten esa autoridad.

Pero Quintn Mendizbal, el marido de Isabel, ha descubierto su manuscrito y se propone contrarrestarlo con su propia versin de los hechos. Del combate entre sus historias conyugales Rosario Ferr crea una poderosa y astutamente cmica meditacin sobre la manera en que construimos la verdad--la de nuestra familia, la de nuestros pases y la de nuestras propias vidas.

La casa de la laguna es una novela llena de encanto e invencin, poblada por personajes de una gran vitalidad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Finalist for the National Book Award: "A family saga in the manner of Gabriel Garca Mrquez," set in Puerto Rico, from an extraordinary storyteller (The New York Times Book Review).

This riveting, multigenerational epic tells the story of two families and the history of Puerto Rico through the eyes of Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintn Mendizabal. Isabel attempts to immortalize their now-united families--and, by extension, their homeland--in a book. The tale that unfolds in her writing has layers upon layers, exploring the nature of love, marriage, family, and Puerto Rico itself.

Weaving the intimate with the expansive on a teeming stage, Ferr crafts a revealing self-portrait of a man and a woman, two fiercely independent people searching for meaning and identity. As Isabel declares: "Nothing is true, nothing is false, everything is the color of the glass you're looking through."

A book about freeing oneself from societal and cultural constraints, The House on the Lagoon also grapples with bigger issues of life, death, poverty, and racism. Mythological in its breadth and scope, this is a masterwork from an extraordinary storyteller.