Translation is near the core of Ana Castillo's Peel My Love Like a Onion. This full-blooded novel transplants and retransfigures Bizet's Carmen into a Lantino community of Chicago. Like age-old flamenco steps, the realities of the opera classic are reshaped for our use. And what more fitting use for such international artistry than a translation of this multi-cultural novel into Spanish? (P.S. And this version, unlike Bizet's, has a happy ending!)