Name: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
SKU: 3125498
Price: 389.00 ZAR
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Author: Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 9781565129757

portada How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Type

Physical Book

Author

Julia Alvarez

Publisher

Algonquin Books

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6x13.8x2.4 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN

9781565129757

ISBN13

9781565129757

Edition No.

Synopsis "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents "

"Poignant . . . Powerful . . . Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." --The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters--Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía--and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father's role in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. 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 U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try 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. Here they tell their stories about being at home--and not at home--in America. Julia Alvarez's new novel, Afterlife, is available now.

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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