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Editore: Alvarez, Julia, 2004
ISBN 10: 044023784XISBN 13: 9780440237846
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the governments secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillos dictatorship.Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind.From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girls struggle to be free.
Editore: Alvarez, De Julia/ Alvarez, Julia/ Valenzuela, Liliana, 2004
ISBN 10: 0375815457ISBN 13: 9780375815454
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Alvarez, Julia, 2004
ISBN 10: 044023784XISBN 13: 9780440237846
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: new. Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the governments secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillos dictatorship.Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind.From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girls struggle to be free.
Editore: Alvarez, Julia, 2021
ISBN 10: 1643751360ISBN 13: 9781643751368
Da: Ami Ventures Inc Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condizione: New. About the AuthorJulia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's program "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez." In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling.Product DescriptionA Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * The Washington Post *Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. magazine * The Millions * Huffington Post * PopSugar * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal * LitHub * Electric LiteratureThe first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents"A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own." -Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet XAntonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves-lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack-but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words.Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including-maybe especially-members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?ReviewA Best Book of 2020: Kirkus Reviews * BookPage * Washington Independent Review of Books * Chicago Public LibraryA Kirkus Reviews Best 2020 Fiction To Get Your Book Club TalkingA Latinidad Best Latinx Book of 2020An AudioFile Magazine Best Audiobook of 2020"A gorgeously intimate portrait of an immigrant writer and recent widow carving out hope in the face of personal and political grief."-O, The Oprah Magazine"[Alvarez] reaps the fruits of her earlier literary efforts . . . Afterlife is anchored not just in easy humor and sharp observation, but in her fine-tuned sense for the intimacies of immigrant sisterhood."-The New York Times Book Review"Resonant . . . The novel, set in 2019, poses questions about American immigration and mental-health policies, and it is a moving exploration of the ways we inadvertently fail the people we love."-The New Yorker"A sweeping tour de force . . . One of the most significant Latina writers of her time."-Entertainment Weekly"A beautifully written novel with a timely theme."-People"Alvarez probes the contours of private moral decisions that echo our national conversation, which excludes migrant communities from claiming their contributions to our country. Afterlife will resonate with many readers in this era of social distanc.
Editore: Alvarez, Julia, 2024
ISBN 10: 0063316641ISBN 13: 9780063316645
Da: Ami Ventures Inc Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condizione: New. Cemetery of Untold Stories El cementerio de los cuentos sin contar (Sp. ed.) (Spanish Edition).
Editore: Alvarez, Julia, 2024
ISBN 10: 1643753843ISBN 13: 9781643753843
Da: Ami Ventures Inc Books, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condizione: New. Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself that will be an instant classic.Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories-literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her.Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. But they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives. Filomena, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper, becomes a sympathetic listener as Alma's characters unspool their secret tales. Among them: Bienvenida, the abandoned second wife of dictator Rafael Trujillo, consigned to oblivion by history, and Manuel Cruz, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States.The characters defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. The Cemetery of Untold Stories asks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories.Readers of Isabel Allende's Violeta and Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead will devour Alvarez's extraordinary new novel about beauty and authenticity that reminds us the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.
Editore: Alvarez, Julia, 2004
ISBN 10: 044023784XISBN 13: 9780440237846
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Alvarez, De Julia/ Alvarez, Julia/ Valenzuela, Liliana, 2004
ISBN 10: 0375815457ISBN 13: 9780375815454
Da: Hafa Adai Books, Plainfield, IL, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Alvarez, Julia, 2006
ISBN 10: 0553494066ISBN 13: 9780553494068
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Mirabal, Dede/ Alvarez, Julia (INT), 2009
ISBN 10: 0307474534ISBN 13: 9780307474537
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.