by Julia Alvarez · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781565122765
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In 'In the Name of Salomé', Julia Alvarez intertwines the lives of two extraordinary women: Salomé Ureña, a revered 19th-century Dominican poet, and her daughter Camila, an intellectual teaching in Cuba during the revolution. The novel explores themes of identity, exile, legacy, and the role of women in society across generations. Set in the Dominican Republic and Cuba, the story examines complex family relationships and the sacrifices made in the name of love and revolution.
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.
