Terrazo

Terrazo is a book written in 1947 by Puerto Rican writer Abelardo Diaz Alfaro. The book won many awards, including that of the Sociedad de Periodistas Universitario y Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña,[1] and made it to the national libraries of many other Latin American countries where Diaz Alfaro was a known and respected writer.

For the faux marble flooring, see Terrazzo.

Terrazo tells the stories , in fiction, of stories of various Puerto Rican villages and people. The majority of these stories are told from the perspective of “jibaro’s (simple country people with little to no education). The stories use jibaro language which is slang Spanish. The writers father was a social worker in Puerto Rico and passed these stories to A. David Alfaro. The stories , while fiction, are based on the stories they heard or were told by the country people. Its 20 chapters, while made up of fictional stories, talk in comical terms about the way many of the very poor used to talk and describe their lives and their reasoning such as how they described the often heard term Santa claus.

The book has been considered by many as one of the tools that helped Puerto Rican people realize the ways, stories and life of the poor in Puerto Rico's past.

References
  1. Herdeck, Donald E.; Maurice Alcibiade Lubin; Margaret Herdeck (1979). Caribbean writers: a bio-bibliographical-critical encyclopedia. Three Continents Press. p. 705. ISBN 978-0-914478-74-4.
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