Sirena Selena

Description

"One evening while drugged out of his mind and picking over garbage in the backstreets of San Juan, a fifteen-year-old homeless boy is singing boleros in a mesmerizing voice that transfixes anyone who listens. Hearing the silken melodies coming from the alley behind her nightclub, drag queen Martha Divine is convinced that the boy's uncanny beauty and irresistible voice will be her ticket to fame and fortune. And so is born the legendary performer known as Sirena Selena.". "Brought by Martha to audition for one of the luxury hotels in the Dominican Republic, Selena casts his/her spell over Hugo Graubel, one of the hotel's rich investors. Graubel is a powerful man in the Republic, married with children, but hiding his true sexual nature. Sirena, determined to escape the poverty and abuse s/he suffered as a child, engages Graubel in a long seduction in this mordant, intensely lyrical tragicomedy."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Cascara de coco, contento de jirimilla azul, por los dioses di, azucarada Selena...Coconut shell, melancholy and restless, from the gods you came, sweet Selena, succulent siren of the glistening beaches; confess, beneath the spotlight, lunatica.

Excerpt

Cascara de coco, contento de jirimilla azul, por los dioses di, azucarada Selena...Coconut shell, melancholy and restless, from the gods you came, sweet Selena, succulent siren of the glistening beaches; confess, beneath the spotlight, lunatica.

Subjects

Other Editions

• Sirena Selena: A NovelPaperbackPicador2001-08-01
• Sirena SelenaPicador USA2000-01-01
• Sirena Selena vestida de penaMondadori2000-01-01
• Sirena SelenaPicador2007-01-01
• Sirena Selena vestida de penaSantillana2009-01-01
• Sirena Selena Vestida de PenaEditorial Planeta, S. A.2016-01-01