![]() ![]() It grew out of her desire to honor her father as he approached the end of his life (he died in 1997) by telling his story. ''Caramelo'' (the title refers to a color and to a type of rebozo, or shawl) developed slowly and, she says, ''organically'' over nearly a decade. Cisneros, 47, was not hurried along by success. Cisneros one of the best-selling Hispanic authors in the United States.īut Ms. The story of a Mexican-American girl coming of age in Chicago, that novel has sold about two million copies in 11 languages, making Ms. This is only her second novel her first was the hugely successful ''House on Mango Street,'' published in 1984 by Arte Público Press and reissued by Random House in 1991. Cisneros this constitutes a major literary event. That book, a novel called ''Caramelo,'' has just been published, and for Ms. ![]() For nine years Sandra Cisneros kept busy writing poetry, short stories and essays, but all along she was nurturing a longer project, one about a family, spanning 100 years and three generations and taking place on both sides of the Mexican border. ![]()
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