How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Autor Julia Alvarezen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2004
But, however the girls may iron the curls from their hair and blend their Hispanic accents to fit in, they will always see the world through Dominican eyes. Now Yolanda needs to return one more time, to recover forgotten memories and remember that part of her she lost.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780747572657
ISBN-10: 0747572658
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0747572658
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Alvarez's second novel, In The Times of the Butterflies, was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award
Notă biografică
Julia Alvarez grew up in the Dominican Republic and emigrated to the United States in 1960. How The García Girls Lost Their Accents received the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, was listed by Américas magazine as 1993's #1 bestseller in Latin America, and was named by both the ALA and the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 1991. Her second novel, In The Time Of The Butterflies, was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works include !Yo!, Something To Declare and In The Name Of Salomé. She is also the author of children's and young adult books and poetry collections. She lives in Vermont and in the Dominican Republic, where she and her husband have a sustainable coffee farm and literacy centre.
Recenzii
'Simply wonderful writing, and there's a good deal of it in this debut novel by a lively and gifted author'
'Compelling ... a classic tale of immigration ... warm and honest'
'She has beautifully captured the threshold experience of the new immigrant'
'In telling this story, Alvarez treats the subjects of immigration, exile, Hispanic culture and the American Dream with a sensitive and often irreverent touch'
'Compelling ... a classic tale of immigration ... warm and honest'
'She has beautifully captured the threshold experience of the new immigrant'
'In telling this story, Alvarez treats the subjects of immigration, exile, Hispanic culture and the American Dream with a sensitive and often irreverent touch'
Descriere
A classic novel of Latin American life which has sold over 350,000 copies in paperback worldwide