Taina

Una original y oscura novela de iniciacion, rebosante de realismo magico urbano, amor y redencion, del autor de El vendedor de suenos.

Julio, un joven de origen puertorriqueno y ecuatoriano que vive en el barrio de Spanish Harlem en Nueva York, sufre de extranas visiones. Cuando decide creer a Taina, una chica de su escuela que esta embarazada, pero que dice ser virgen, su amor ciego por ella desata un torbellino de emociones que llevaran a Julio a cuestionar a sus padres, su religion e incluso los principios basicos de la ciencia. Junto al tio de Taina, un ex convicto con un oscuro pasado conocido como "El Vejigante", Julio se ve envuelto en una red de delitos que, aunque lo acercaran finalmente a Taina, terminaran tambien por revelar un secreto de familia del cual no saldra indemne.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams

When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the conception of Taina's baby as a revolution in nature).  

After meeting Taina's uncle, "El Vejigante", an ex-con with a dark past, he accepts his proposal to support her during her pregnancy and becomes entangled in a web of crime that, while taking him closer to Taina, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.