Caperucita en Manhattan (Spanish Edition)

By Carmen Martín Gaite

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“Caperucita es un clasico de la literatura sobre la iniciacion a la vida adulta, sobre los peligros a los que tenemos que hacer frente y la exigencia de hacerlo en libertad y soledad. Carmen Martin Gaite nos recrea magistralmente esta historia y la adapta a la sociedad en la que vivimos, con una Caperucita que es una nina de hoy y que se mueve en un bosque muy diferente (Manhattan), aunque tambien se encontrara con los personajes del famoso cuento, aqui completamente diferentes: miss Lunatic, mister Wolf, etc. Al leer Caperucita en Manhattan Siruela, 1990), uno de los grandes exitos de la literatura juvenil, se nos proporciona la ocasion de reflexionar sobre nuestro propio mundo, sobre la manera en que nosotros intentamos cada dia ser diferentes y sobre como ser nosotros mismos en la sociedad en que nos ha tocado vivir. Sara Allen es una nina de diez anos que vive en Brooklyn, Nueva York. Su mayor deseo es ir sola a Manhattan para llevar a su abuela un tarta de fresa. La abuela de esta moderna Caperucita ha sido cantante de music-hall y se ha casado varias veces. El lobo es mister Woolf, un pastelero multimillonario que vive cerca de Central Park en un rascacielos con forma de tarta. Pero el hilo magico de este relato se centra en miss Lunatic, una mendiga sin edad que vive de dia oculta en la estatua de la Libertad y que sale de noche para mediar en las desgracias humanas o, si es necesario, llegar a regalar un elixir capaz de vencer al miedo.*******************Little Red Riding Hood is a classic work of literature about the transition into adulthood, about the dangers we must face, and about the challenge of confronting them freely and alone. Carmen Martín Gaite masterfully recreates this story and adapts it to the society in which we live, with a Little Red Riding Hood who is a modern-day girl moving through a very different forest, Manhattan. Yet she still encounters the characters from the famous fairy tale, although here they are completely transformed: Miss Lunatic, Mister Wolf, and others.

Reading Little Red Riding Hood in Manhattan (Siruela, 1990), one of the great successes of young adult literature, gives us the opportunity to reflect on our own world, on the ways we try each day to be different, and on how to be ourselves in the society in which we happen to live.

Sara Allen is a ten-year-old girl who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her greatest wish is to go alone to Manhattan to bring her grandmother a strawberry cake. The grandmother of this modern Little Red Riding Hood was once a music-hall singer and has been married several times. The wolf is Mister Woolf, a millionaire pastry chef who lives near Central Park in a cake-shaped skyscraper.

However, the magical thread of the story centers on Miss Lunatic, an ageless beggar woman who spends her days hidden inside the Statue of Liberty and comes out at night to intervene in human misfortunes or, if necessary, to give away an elixir capable of overcoming fear.”

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