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American Dreams

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Me too. I am a Latino in the USA. I am a character in AMERICAN DREAMS

While dazzling the reader with amazing turns of phrase, Gonzalez Viaña moves gracefully from hope to challenge and onto nostalgia, courage, adventure, and finally to love.

This book is not a book. It is a people!

AMERICAN DREAMS is tantalizing, it's mystical, and profound. An ambitious exploration of the Latino people in the United States.
The characters are vivid and emotionally exciting, creating a fast and compelling read.
We are mesmerized by Gonzalez Viana's gift of words and colorful prose.

Gonzalez Viaña writes with the Borgesian power to reveal the mystery of man and the universe. You can practically hear his characters breathe. What prose! Complete and poetic.

Arte Publico's translation reveals to us a superb author. The characters and situations offer stories of Biblical dimensions. Fascinating!

Living in Oregon is a great Latino writer whose dreams are America. Amazing grace! Absolutely perfect from opening word to closing sentence.

I am one of the characters in the book, American Dreams. So, too, are you, and he, and she, and they, and all of us, Latinos and ancestors of Latino immigrants living in the United States. We populate these stories. All the characters represent us in the dream called America.

A literary miracle... You will turn the pages until dawn. And you will not be disappointed.

You will become involved immediately. You are going to be in San Diego, Miami, New York or San Francisco. You are going to be a Latino.

Gonzalez Viana"s prose is clear and magical...

Ooooooooooooooppssss!!!!

Oooooops!!!......There is an error in the presentation of this book:
Eduardo Gonzalez Viana is the author.
The other person is the translator.
The form in which the book is presented in this e-store gives the erroneous impression of co-authorship.

About AMERICAN DREAMS by Eduardo Gonzalez Viaña, Mario Vargas Llosa says:

"A magnificent testimony of the Latin American presence in the United States".

Now, I understand why.

This book is an explosion of wonder. A powerful exploration into the Latino world in the USA. Gonzalez Viana has an incredible power of description. He succeds in creating and fleshing out a cast of remarkable and unique characters.

Only one word about this book: it's addictive!

Eduardo Gonzales Viana speaks to each of us with convincing clarity, beautiful prose, and deep and thought provoking messages about life and its dilemmas. His gift of expression and the ease with which he presents his characters and shares his story is a gift to us all.

This is probably the most creative and far-reaching book of short stories I have read in many years. It is also the first book published in English by this extraordinary Peruvian-American writer. It says a great deal of what we can expect from Gonzalez Viaña in the future.