IF I BRING YOU ROSES

Book ID/图书代码： 01805011B45449

English Summary/英文概要： Felicidad works behind the counter in her aunt’s island bakery, serving the town’s busybodies, and dreaming of the family she hasn’t seen in nearly a decade, especially of the mother who took to the roof of their home in the mountains in a frenzy of grief and madness. The day Anibal enters the bakery in search of a wife is the day Felicidad dares to believe that the new life she’s been imagining could become a reality.

Soon the two are married and Felicidad is keeping house in Anibal’s Chicago apartment, lavishing care on her husband. But Felicidad’s virtue begins to sap Anibal’s strength, and chafing at the restraints of marriage and the humiliations of his job in a factory, he takes up with a woman who is everything Felicidad is not: independent, reckless, promiscuous, demanding. As her husband becomes increasingly distant, Felicidad retreats to the dream life that had sustained her back home.

Finally reaching a breaking point, Felicidad decides that the moment has come to be reborn in America. How she finds her voice--and Anibal learns to hear her--is at the heart of this passionate novel.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Felicidad在西班牙文中有著「無限祝福」的意思，這也是故事主角的名字

Felicidad在西班牙文中有著「無限祝福」的意思，這也是故事主角的名字。她出生在波多黎各，年幼時被城中的阿姨收養。長大後在阿姨經營的麵包店中幫忙，她一直夢想著有一天能與十多年未見面的家人相會，特別是媽媽…
當受到陌生美國男子Aníball追求後，Felicidad決定跟隨Aníball來到美國。她相信未來將有新的生活在等著，那些期盼已久的夢想都會實現。不幸地婚後的生活不如想像。
種種的問題使她善良的個性，在大小不斷的摩擦中一點一點被消磨掉。然而Aníbal的背叛，是這段婚姻中最致命的一擊。對於這般難堪的打擊，她已達到臨界點，於是決定放下這些紛紛擾擾，重新開始生活。最後Felicidad坎坷的人生，是否能如這個名字一樣，得到無限的祝福？(Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况："Marisel Vera is a gifted storyteller with an eye for the subtle motions of the human heart as it struggles with the disturbances of desire. This is a deeply felt and satisfying tale that brings attention to the courage required to sustain hope, love, and passion as a stranger in a new land. Vera understands her characters and brings them to us with lyric intensity, humor, and perfect pitch so that they live in us long after the last page is closed."---Award-winning author Jonis Agee

"If I Bring You Roses has everything you want in a novel-- flawed complicated characters, lush descriptions, breathtaking plot, and a fierce beating heart. With this brillant novel she at once excavates history, while weaving a story that is entirely new. With this amazing debut, Marisel Vera has burst onto the literary scene. I am eager to see what she writes next."---Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow

About the Author/作者介绍： Marisel Vera lives near Chicago, Illinois with her husband and children. Two of her short stories won the Willow Review literary magazine’s fiction prize in 2000 and 2003.
Marisel Vera 與丈夫家人居於芝加哥。出版的作品中，曾有兩部獲得：Willow Review literary magazine’s fiction prize in 2000 and 2003。

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