Ebook {Epub PDF} Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's Daughters of the Stone sings as few novels can. It also tells us of a culture and nation that is under-represented in our literature: Puerto Rico. And it does so with brilliant flourishes, in a narrative both gripping and www.doorway.ru by: 2. This story is the story not of one person, but of a family, a collection of narratives told and passed down by a family of Puerto Rican women, along with the magic stone of the title. This book begins in the mid to late s with Fela, a woman stolen from her life in Africa and sold into slavery in Puerto Rico.  · In Daughters of the Stone, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa rescues them from oblivion and richly, compellingly, magically, introduces them to literature—and to the world. Bienvenidas! author of A Handbook to Luck Cristina García. Llanos-Figueroa's first novel is a beautiful, sensual tale of mothers and daughters, love and sorrow, hardship and www.doorway.ru: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa.

Daughters of the Stone - Kindle edition by Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Daughters of the Stone. Daughters of the Stone. likes · 1 talking about this. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, an Afro-Puerto Rican novelist, short story writer and PEN finalist who grounds her work on PR communities on the. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's Daughters of the Stone sings as few novels can. It also tells us of a culture and nation that is under-represented in our literature: Puerto Rico. And it does so with brilliant flourishes, in a narrative both gripping and intimate. Conveying a wide sweep of history, as witnessed by several generations of women, the book has the warmth of an autobiography while.

Daughters of the StonePaperback Edition ()ISBN A lyrical powerful novel about a family of Afro-Puerto Rican women spanning five generations, detailing their physical and spiritual journey from the Old World to the New. It is the mids. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's Daughters of the Stone sings as few novels can. It also tells us of a culture and nation that is under-represented in our literature: Puerto Rico. And it does so with brilliant flourishes, in a narrative both gripping and intimate. Host, Rhina Valentin sits down with novelist Dahlma Llanos- Figueroa to discuss her book tour for the10th Anniversary Edition of her book Daughters of the S.