El fr Ana Tropico: Anna in the Tropics (Spanish Edition) (Paperback) newly tagged "theatre".

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer drama award, Anna in the tropics recreates the Cuban-American community in Ybor City, Florida, in 1929, with its colors, its roosters, his close relations and his love of romance. Santiago and his wife Ofelia have a cigar factory, where sometimes illiterate workers roll cigars, and to avoid getting bored, hire a "reader" to read their. Romantic stories spice up their lives, and since they have finished Wuthering Heights, they look forward now to a new novel, Anna Karenina, read by a new player, Juan Julian.

Conchita, one of the workers whose marriage with Palomo has rassi, reproducing Anna Karenina, because she has a passionate with Juan Julian affair and then tells Palomo finds soon. Marela, daughter of Santiago and Ofelia, fantasy also on Juan Julian. Reality intrudes on romance, however, when Santiago the game on cocks translates partial ownership of the factory will Cheche, his half-brother, who now wants to introduce machines to speed production. He also wants to eliminate the lector, to the worker another dismay.

In the language which is often lyrical and sometimes fanciful, the action unfolds, with discussions evolving nature and the importance of literature, the enduring values of their culture, the importance of love and the effects possible of 'progress' on traditional values. The characters, although not fully drawn and sometimes too obviously following intrigues of Anna Karenina, are, nevertheless, interesting and unusual as they try to do the best they can during difficult times.

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