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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
April 10, 2007
Pages
288
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307264367
ISBN-10
030726436X
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$24.00
§As reported by publisher
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The Book of Unknown Americans | Monkey Hunting | Dreams of Significant Girls | Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination | The House on Mango Street | Dreaming in Cuban | The Lady Matador's Hotel | King of Cuba | The Aguero Sisters
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Follows three young people--Cuban-born Enrique, living in California with his flamboyant magician father; Marta, growing up in the violent slums of San Salvador; and Leila, enjoying an upper-middle-class youth in Tehran--over the course of twenty years as they are transformed by sacrifice, love, violence, and loss as their lives intertwine. 30,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the acclaimed author of Monkey Hunting (âA miracle of poetic compression . . . An epic of anecdotes, a vista of brief and beautiful glimpsesâ âLos Angeles Times Book Review), a lyrical, haunting, deeply moving new novel.
Late 1960s. We meet three children: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father . . . Marta Claros, getting by in the slums of San Salvador, forced to leave school to help support her family, her beloved older brother having already left home . . . Leila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeonâs daughter in Tehran, her mother concerned only with appearances, her father an often foolishly vocal opponent of the Shah.
As we follow them across the next twenty yearsâthe narrative moving among their livesâwe see Enrique, a math whiz from a young age, sacrificing his dream of attending MIT to filial duty, and the dream of passionate love to the exigencies of reality . . . Marta, fleeing war in El Salvador, making her way illegally into the United States and finding wholly unexpected possibilities . . . Leila, allowing the expectations of her mother to pull her into an arranged marriage and the constricted life of women in postrevolutionary Iran. We see chance draw Leila and Marta into Enriqueâs lifeâLeila and Enrique loving and losing each other, Marta the means to renewed hope for Enriqueâand, throughout, âgood luck or bad tilting life one way or anotherâ for all of them.
With its cast of vividly drawn characters, its graceful movement through time and the psychological shifts between childhood and adulthood, and its subtle revelation of the essential hopes and doubts of ordinary people whose lives are made extraordinary by circumstance both tragic and joyful, A Handbook to Luck is Cristina GarcÃaâs most beautiful, elegiac, and deeply emotional novel yet.
Late 1960s. We meet three children: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father . . . Marta Claros, getting by in the slums of San Salvador, forced to leave school to help support her family, her beloved older brother having already left home . . . Leila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeonâs daughter in Tehran, her mother concerned only with appearances, her father an often foolishly vocal opponent of the Shah.
As we follow them across the next twenty yearsâthe narrative moving among their livesâwe see Enrique, a math whiz from a young age, sacrificing his dream of attending MIT to filial duty, and the dream of passionate love to the exigencies of reality . . . Marta, fleeing war in El Salvador, making her way illegally into the United States and finding wholly unexpected possibilities . . . Leila, allowing the expectations of her mother to pull her into an arranged marriage and the constricted life of women in postrevolutionary Iran. We see chance draw Leila and Marta into Enriqueâs lifeâLeila and Enrique loving and losing each other, Marta the means to renewed hope for Enriqueâand, throughout, âgood luck or bad tilting life one way or anotherâ for all of them.
With its cast of vividly drawn characters, its graceful movement through time and the psychological shifts between childhood and adulthood, and its subtle revelation of the essential hopes and doubts of ordinary people whose lives are made extraordinary by circumstance both tragic and joyful, A Handbook to Luck is Cristina GarcÃaâs most beautiful, elegiac, and deeply emotional novel yet.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (April 10, 2007)
9780307264367 | details & prices | 288 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $24.00
About: Follows three young people--Cuban-born Enrique, living in California; Marta, growing up in the violent slums of San Salvador; and Leila, enjoying an upper-middle-class youth in Tehran--as their lives intertwine over the course of twenty years.
About: Follows three young people--Cuban-born Enrique, living in California; Marta, growing up in the violent slums of San Salvador; and Leila, enjoying an upper-middle-class youth in Tehran--as their lives intertwine over the course of twenty years.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (April 8, 2008)
9780307276803 | details & prices | 259 pages | 8.00 × 5.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $13.95
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