The House in the Clouds by Gloria Duran,Jose Hernandez,Yasmeen Namazie

the home within the CLOUDS (Mixtlicalli in Nahuatl) is a cocktail of event, romance, secret, humor, ghost tale and relations saga . . . The heroine and narrator is Simone Sandoval, thirty-two, witty, courageous and a winning Florida businesswoman , yet unfortunate in love. Her challenge, she thinks, is the form of her nose.

Simone travels to Mexico to have it repaired at a recognized sanitarium and includes along with her, as a version, the portrait of her appealing great-grandmother, Simone Dupont, rumored to were a sorceress. yet her reputable cause of the journey is to find the previous kin hacienda, Mixtlicalli, in part destroyed throughout the Mexican Revolution. on the sanitarium Simone meets an historical daughter of her ancestor and learns that Simone Dupont was once now not kidnapped by means of basic Zapata because the kin has maintained, yet went off with him willingly. the executive of the sanitarium, Federico, with whom she falls in love, seems to be the woman’s different nice grandchild.

Another discovery is that Mixtlicalli, now reconstructed, serves as a brand new Age retreat focusing on rejuvenation. it's run through her personal great-grandfather, Luis Sandoval, now 109 years previous and stored younger through his Indian lover, a witch medical professional. Luis, who makes an attempt to rape his great-granddaughter, insists that she is his useless spouse to flee from the reminiscence that he has murdered her. yet Simone Dupont survives because the ghost of Mixtlicalli.

“There is loads the following to like. Gloria is a skilled author. . . i like her droll sensibility in addition to her expert blend of fairy story, chick-lit and magical realism ( did I depart something out”?)
Sulay Hernandez, Touchstone publishers (Simon and Schuster).

“I was once certainly engaged with (her) transparent writing kind, (her) rambunctious heroine and the exciting old mystery.”
Sherwin Nuland, health practitioner, writer of the way we Die, The knowledge of the physique, The artwork of getting older, misplaced in the US, etc.

Gloria Durán’s 3 prior novels have got extensive acclaim. Malinche, “Slave Princess of Cortez,” received first prize in 1996 from the nationwide League of yankee Pen ladies. “Maria de Estrada, Gypsy Conquistadora,”published in either English and Spanish received one other first prize given through the Latino booklet Summit in 2000 -- which venerated her with a Latino Literary corridor of repute award. Her “Catalina, mi padre,” released via Planeta in Mexico has acquired enthusiastsic reports and may be republished presently in English by way of Floricanto Press. She has gained a variety of prizes for brief tales and has released books of literary feedback and over twenty articles in literary journals.
Durán has additionally acquired many different awards and honors. In l987 she was once made an honorary Puerto Rican which will bring a paper on the plenary consultation of the foreign Pen Congress in San Juan. Her paintings has been released in Spain, Holland, and nice Britain in addition to in Mexico and the U.S.