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Hermanas Aguero by Cristina García; [traductor del inglés, Alan West] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hermanas Aguero about?

It is the story of Reina and Constancia Aguero, Cuban sisters who have been estranged for thirty years. Reina, forty-eight years old, living in Cuba in the early 1990s, was once a devoted daughter of la revolucion; Constancia, an eager to assimilate naturalized American, smuggled herself off the island in 1962. Reina is tall, darkly beautiful, unmarried, and magnetically sexual, a master electrician who is known as Companera Amazona among her countless male suitors, and who basks in the admiration she receives in her trade and in her bed. Constancia is petite, perfectly put together, pale skinned, an inspirationally successful yet modest cosmetics saleswoman, long resigned to her passionless marriage. Reina believes in only what she can grasp with her five senses; Constancia believes in miracles that "arrive every day from the succulent edge of disaster." Reina lives surrounded by their father's belongings, the tangible remains of her childhood; Constancia has inherited only a startling resemblance to their mother - the mysterious Blanca - which she wears like an unwanted mask. The sisters' stories are braided with the voice from the past of their father, Ignacio, a renowned natura

Who reads Hermanas Aguero?

Author

Cristina García; [traductor del inglés, Alan West]

Publisher

Espasa-Calpe SA

Published

1997

Language

ES

ISBN

9788423979288

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25