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Esto También Es Una Casa (Novela) / This Is Also a Home (a Novel)

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Esto También Es Una Casa (Novela) / This Is Also a Home (a Novel)Javi vive en una casa de madera encima de la ferretera que atiende su madre. Pero dependiendo del clima, de su abuelo, de los tiroteos, o de la furia de su padre, la casa de Javi puede estar arriba o abajo. Arriba su madre se llama Pilar, abajo es una Chica Bombn; arriba su padre es una careta de soldar, abajo un fantasma; arriba Javi le cambia los paales a su abuelo, abajo espanta pretendientes a su madre; arriba hace nieve frotando bloques de foam,

Javi vive en una casa de madera encima de la ferretería que atiende su madre. Pero dependiendo del clima, de su abuelo, de los tiroteos, o de la furia de su padre, la casa de Javi puede estar arriba o abajo. Arriba su madre se llama Pilar, abajo es una Chica Bombón; arriba su padre es una careta de soldar, abajo un fantasma; arriba Javi le cambia los pañales a su abuelo, abajo espanta pretendientes a su madre; arriba hace nieve frotando bloques de foam, abajo construye una playa con la arena que venden en sacos; arriba Javi es un niño cruel, abajo es un adolescente tierno; arriba es gringo y abajo puertorriqueño.

Esto también es una casa es un tour de force entre un hijo y una madre, entre una casa y una ferretería, entre lo que tiene arreglo y lo que nunca lo tendrá, entre el dolor y la ternura, y entre la belleza y la violencia que implica vivir en el Caribe. Con una prosa limpia y exacta, profunda y sutil, esta novela pone en función aquel mandamiento de Nabokov: «acaricien los detalles, los divinos detalles».

«Cezanne Cardona es un escritor que rebasó la categoría de promesa: un escritor rotundo que merece leerse, aplaudirse, respetarse», Luis Rafael Sánchez.

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Javi lives in a wooden house above the hardware store his mother runs. But depending on the weather, his grandfather, gunfire, or his father's fury, Javi's house might be up or down. Upstairs, his mother is called Pilar; downstairs, she's a Bonbon Girl. Upstairs, his father is a welding mask; downstairs, a ghost. Upstairs, Javi changes his grandfather's diapers; downstairs, he chases off his mother's suitors. Upstairs, he makes snow by rubbing foam blocks; downstairs, he builds a beach with sackfuls of sand. Upstairs, he's a cruel child; downstairs, a tender teenager. Upstairs, he's a gringo; downstairs, Puerto Rican.

This Too Is a House is a tour de force between a son and a mother, between a house and a hardware store, between what can be fixed and what never will be, between pain and tenderness, and between the beauty and violence of life in the Caribbean. With clean, precise, and subtle prose, this novel lives up to Nabokov's commandment: "caress the details, the divine details."

"Cezanne Cardona is a writer who has gone far beyond the category of promise: a powerful writer worthy of reading, applauding, and respecting," --Luis Rafael Sánchez.

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