Name: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Penguin Vitae)
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Author: Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 9780143136552

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How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Penguin Vitae)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Julia Alvarez

Preface by

Elizabeth Acevedo

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.5 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9780143136552

Synopsis "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Penguin Vitae) "

A collectible hardcover thirtieth-anniversary edition of Julia Alvarez's modern Latinx classic that gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures, featuring a new foreword by New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning novelist Elizabeth Acevedo A Penguin Vitae Edition The García sisters--Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía--and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after the discovery of their father's role in an attempt to overthrow the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming United States, their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try to find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. In Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, the sisters tell their stories about being at home--and not at home--in America. Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as Penguin of one's life--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

Julia Alvarez

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Julia Álvarez es una escritora dominicano-estadounidense cuya obra ha marcado de forma decisiva la literatura latinoamericana en EE. UU. Su trayectoria explora identidad, memoria, migración y la complejidad de crecer entre culturas. Con una prosa clara y emocionalmente precisa, Álvarez ha construido un puente entre la experiencia caribeña y la narrativa contemporánea en inglés. En 2013 recibió la National Medal of Arts, un reconocimiento mayor a su aporte literario.

Es autora de obras verificadas como “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents”, “In the Time of the Butterflies” y “Before We Were Free”, todas ampliamente difundidas y estudiadas por su hondura temática. Además de su narrativa, Álvarez ha participado activamente en iniciativas educativas y proyectos de fomento lector, consolidándose como una voz central en la literatura diaspórica. Su influencia sigue creciendo gracias a su capacidad para narrar, con autenticidad y sensibilidad, las tensiones y revelaciones que surgen al vivir entre mundos.

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