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- Herausgeber: CIDCLI
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
Nuestro primer eBook en inglés; relata la historia de una familia de inmigrantes que deja su lugar de origen y lucha por adaptarse a una nueva cultura y a un nuevo idioma en un país extranjero. Es también un cuento acerca de cómo los niños ven el mundo y cómo la indiferencia de los adultos aumenta su temor y su confusión.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Though this animated book is the familiar immigrant story of a family that has to leave its home and struggles to adapt to a new culture and a new language in a foreign country, it is also a tale of how children see the world and how the indifference of adults amplifies their fear and confusion.
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My family lives in La Casita—the Little House. It’s anything, but little. That’s because it’s also a restaurant, with eight wooden tables and lots and lots of overstuffed chairs. A vase with fresh flowers sits on a big fancy table under a crystal chandelier right in the middle of the restaurant. The whole room seems to glow, especially at night, when all the lights are on. And since the floor is polished like glass, my parents, Luis and Fortuna, insist that we walk one step at a time through the dining room.
La Casita has three windows facing the street —I like to sit on the sills and watch people walking by on the other side of the iron bars. Sometimes the people smile or talk to me. Once an Indian lady wearing a huipil gave me two canillas de leche, which I shared with my brother Felipe. Everyone says La Casita is the best restaurant in Guatemala City.
My favorite room in La Casita is the kitchen. It has two refrigerators—one cold, the other very, very cold— huge aluminum sinks and lots of shiny chrome pots and pans sitting on the gas stove. Along one of the kitchen walls there is a big glass tank filled with lobsters—speckled creatures with long antennas and lots of warts on their hairy legs. They all have funny names like El Cid, Don Quixote, Superman, Hannibal, King Arthur. One by one all the lobsters except for Genghis Khan have disappeared and been replaced by other lobsters. He is huge—papá says he will never give him away. When Felipe goes to the prepa and my niñera Consuelo is busy, I like to go into the kitchen and watch Augusto, the cook. He puts on a big white apron and works so fast at the food counter that his
