{"product_id":"sirena-selena-paperback","title":"Sirena Selena - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMayra Santos-Febres\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStephen A. Lytle\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of\u003ci\u003e Urban Oracles \u003c\/i\u003ecomes Mayra Santos-Febres's\u003ci\u003e Sirena Selena\u003c\/i\u003e: s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eomewhere between The Blue Angel and Kiss of the Spider Woman rises the legend of Sirena Selena, the diva-siren of the Caribbean whose boleros seduce and torment whoever dares listen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva whose uncanny beauty and irrisistable voice will be their ticket to fame and fortune. Auditioning for one of the luxury hotels in the Dominican Republic, Selena casts her spell over Hugo Graubel, one of the hotel's rich investors. Graubel is a powerful man in the Republic, married with children. Silena, determined to escape the poverty and abuse s\/he suffered as a child, engages Graubel in a long seduction in this mordant, intensely lyrical tragi-comedy - part masque, part cabaret - about identity (class, race, gender) and the hunger and desire to be other things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMayra Santos-Febres\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico. She has published two books of poetry, and her short stories have won many prizes, including the 1994 Letras de Oro Prize from the University of Miami and the 1997 Juan Rulfo Prize, awarded by Radio Sarandi in Paris. In 1997 her two collections of short fiction were translated into English under the title \u003ci\u003eUrban Oracles\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Lyttle\u003c\/b\u003e has translated Laura Restrepo's \u003ci\u003eLeopard in the Sun, \u003c\/i\u003e Javier Gonzales Rubio's \u003ci\u003eLoving You Was My Undoing\u003c\/i\u003e, and Laura Esquivel's \u003ci\u003eIntimate Succulencies, \u003c\/i\u003e among others. He lives in Los Angeles.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44399391703142,"sku":"9780312263928","price":26.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/bHRSSytJRWxoMGFUeTdRbVR5TUl1Zz09.webp?v=1769518530","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/sirena-selena-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}