The Secret of the Bulls - Hardcover

Jose Raul Bernardo

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684818175 ISBN 13: 9780684818177

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1996

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A lively love story in pre-revolutionary Cuba follows the life of butcher Maximiliano, whose world is changed forever when the beautiful Delores falls in love with him and leaves home to marry without permission. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

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From the Publisher:

The Secret of the Bulls is a thoroughly enchanting and lush romantic novel, a passionate family saga that brings to life the brilliantly-colored world of prerevolutionary Cuba. It is a love story, the story of Maximiliano and Dolores's lifelong passionate love for one another, anchored firmly in a world where love stories are larger than life, where desires are shamelessly hot, where male pride is fierce, and family loyalty sacred.

Bernardo's original and spellbinding novel explores three generations of love and passion, forbidden kisses, and enduring family pride. The Secret of the Bulls is an epic, lusty novel, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic-a novel that seeks to understand the psychology of machismo in a culture steeped in both tradition and tragedy.

About the Author:

Jose Raul Bernardo is the author of two previous novels: Silent Wing, elected as one of the Best Works of Fiction in 1998 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The Secret of the Bulls, now available in seven languages. A renaissance man, Jose Raul Bernardo is also a celebrated architect, poet, and a noted composer whose award-winning symphonic works have been heard all over the world. He now makes his home in the Catskill Mountains of New York.

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