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Laudada como una obra centra de la literatura latinoamericana, esta novela asombrosa, de una de las más prominentes mujeres de letras de Puerto Rico, es a la vez una rebosante saga multigeneracional y una historia mágica de la isla.

En una hermosa mansión con vista a la laguna de Alamares, Isabel Montfort está escribiendo la crónica de su familia. Es un relato de aventura e intriga, de inmigrantes españoles y corsos, de esclavos africanos, de política sexual y de luchas políticas, de maridos autoritarios y esposas que ingeniosamente subvierten esa autoridad.

Pero Quintín Mendizábal, el marido de Isabel, ha descubierto su manuscrito y se propone contrarrestarlo con su propia versión de los hechos. Del combate entre sus historias conyugales Rosario Ferré crea una poderosa y astutamente cómica meditación sobre la manera en que construimos la verdad--la de nuestra familia, la de nuestros países y la de nuestras propias vidas.

La casa de la laguna es una novela llena de encanto e invención, poblada por personajes de una gran vitalidad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Finalist for the National Book Award: "A family saga in the manner of Gabriel García Márquez," set in Puerto Rico, from an extraordinary storyteller (The New York Times Book Review).

This riveting, multigenerational epic tells the story of two families and the history of Puerto Rico through the eyes of Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintín Mendizabal. Isabel attempts to immortalize their now-united families--and, by extension, their homeland--in a book. The tale that unfolds in her writing has layers upon layers, exploring the nature of love, marriage, family, and Puerto Rico itself.

Weaving the intimate with the expansive on a teeming stage, Ferré crafts a revealing self-portrait of a man and a woman, two fiercely independent people searching for meaning and identity. As Isabel declares: "Nothing is true, nothing is false, everything is the color of the glass you're looking through."

A book about freeing oneself from societal and cultural constraints, The House on the Lagoon also grapples with bigger issues of life, death, poverty, and racism. Mythological in its breadth and scope, this is a masterwork from an extraordinary storyteller.

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Rosario Josefina Ferré was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on September 28, 1938. She received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Manhattanville College, a master's degree in literature from the University of Puerto Rico, and a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from the University of Maryland. She was a professor of Latin American literature at several universities including the University of California, Rutgers University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Puerto Rico.

She was a novelist, poet, essayist, and children's book author. She was the editor of the literary magazine Loading and Unloading Zone as well as a newspaper columnist and critic. She wrote several books in Spanish and English including The House on the Lagoon, Eccentric Neighborhoods, and Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories. She died on February 18, 2016 at the age of 77.

(Bowker Author Biography)