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by Julia Alvarez · Plume Books · tapa blanda · 286 pages
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En esta conmovedora novela, Julia Alvarez narra la historia de las hermanas García, quienes se ven obligadas a huir de su República Dominicana natal tras un intento de golpe de estado. Adaptándose a una nueva vida en el Bronx, Nueva York, las cuatro hermanas luchan por equilibrar sus raíces culturales con las influencias estadounidenses, explorando temas de identidad, familia y adaptación en un entorno desafiante. La novela captura las experiencias de estas jóvenes latinas mientras navegan por el choque cultural y buscan su lugar en el mundo.

Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers.