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. 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. Somos privilegiados al poder presenciar y ser. 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. Una amistad inesperada entre dos personas, dos familias y dos pases brilla en todo el centro de este libro. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. Librera: Ruth Reaser US (US) Inventario del vendedor : 1106 Ttulo: How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Autor: Julia Alvarez Formato/Encuadernacin. 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. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. 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. Ella ilustra la complejidad de navegar por dos mundos y revela la capacidad humana de fortaleza frente a la opresión. En poesía y prosa, Álvarez explora temas de identidad, familia y divisiones culturales. It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. INGLÉS / Literatura / Narrativa contemporánea en inglés / Narrativa inglesa contemporánea /Ī 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 Julia Álvarez(1950 -) Julia Álvarez es reconocida por su extraordinaria narración. 'A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.
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