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Summary: A Worth Reading Book
Review: "To Dream alone is dangerous, but to dream jointly has been the beginning of the greatest changes in history."
This writer tells the true history with eloquence and elegance.
This book is a Treasure!Quisqueya La Bella Is A Must Read Book!
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Summary: "Quisqueya La Bella" -Extraordinariamente una Obra Maestra
Review: Este libro era lo que estabamos esperando hace mucho tiempo. Quisqueya la Bella, bello titulo, describe la historia de un pais que ha puesto a sus pobladores a sufrir de ambos lados. Quien desee conocer mas sobre esta obra maestra debe leerlo y aprendera a conocer lo que es el merengue, la cultura y la historia, pero sobre todo acerca de la relacion entre Haiti-Republica Dominicana.
By the way, one reader stated that this book is boring and predictable. It is never a matter of predictability with history texts. This book is among the list of mandatory reading in Caribbean culture courses in many major universities. Yugoslavia is not a country anymore. I'm teaching this book each semester because this is the only book on the subject that I've read that presents a realistic and inclusive perspective of the country's cultural history. Quisqueya La Bella --- Simply the Best. I've waited a long time for a book like this. Thanks Prof. Cambeira.
Very Highly Recommended. My next reading will be AZUCAR! The Story of Sugar (a novel) by the same writer.
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Summary: Quisqueya La Bella "Athens of the New World"
Review: Everybody called Quisqueya the "Athens of the New World".
It is a country with beautiful beaches and beautiful people and a complex history. The island's ethnic mix of indigenuous, European (mainly Spanish) and African cultures and their merger across time resulted in the distinctive Dominican culture that we know today. Cambeira's passion for his native island is evident on every page. This book gave me a really different and fresh perspective from other books on the subject by other authors that I have read. This is an excellent personal interpretation that I'm recommending to anyone interested in learning about the Atena del Nuevo Mundo.Thanks to the Author. My next reading will certainly be his novel that everybody is talking about: Azucar! The Story of Sugar.
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Summary: Suggested Reading for a Popular Play
Review: I am very impressed by this unusual perspective on Dominican history and culture by the Dominican writer Alan Cambeira. Cambeira's work is not your conventional history text. It reads more like an interest sustaining novel; It also presents some cultural aspects most writers on the subject usually omit or avoid altogether. I also found a surprising side issue: the theatrical version of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Fiesta Del Chivo (The Festival of the Goat) is in production by the well respected Repertorio Espanol and has an accompanying Study Guide done by Iliana Fuentes. I see that Ms Fuentes also lists Cambeira's book as a part of the suggested reading in this regard. To me, then, Cambeira has a winner. His book is definitely worth the read. ... Bravo Cambeira!
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Summary: Intelligent Focus
Review: This definitely is a timely book with very valuable and insightful information given the current very tragic situation in the island shared by the two republics. Cambeira's intelligent focus and keen interpretation of the island's development in every sense helped me better understand especially the Dominican culture that most of us know so little about. I am sure many readers who are curious about Caribbean cultures will find this work extremely informative.
I also recommend this writer's new novel Azucar! The Story of Sugar.
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Summary: Quisqueya La Bella: Provocative Interpretation
Review: This is a collector's item which needs to be read and guarded carefully on the shelf of individuals seriously interested in the Caribbean. Actually, this book should be required reading for those making their first trip to the island. This book doesn't read like the conventional history text. It flows lyrically like the waves of the Caribbean itself. This personal perspective presents a wonderful, yet provocative and controversial interpretation of a culture that many people in the States know so little about.
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