The Agüero Sisters

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 300, [8]. Quarter-bound navy blue cloth over canary yellow paper-covered boards, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine. Deckled fore edges, mustard-yellow top stain. Jacket design by Chip Kidd, with blurbs by Julia Alvarez, Gish Jen and Caryl Phillips to rear.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Author's second book. A 1997 New York Times Book Review Notable Book. Winner of the 1997 Janet Heidiger Kafka Prize for the "best book-length work of prose fiction" by an American woman. Nominated for the 1998 Orange Prize. The story of two estranged sisters, one living in New York, the other in Cuba, slowly moving toward a long awaited reunion. By the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban (1992). "Exhilarating... García is a strikingly deft and supple writer." –The New York Times Book Review