by Julia Alvarez · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420471006
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«Para salvar el mundo» is the historical fiction novel by Julia Álvarez, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (448 pages, in Spanish).
Alma Huebner, a contemporary writer, becomes obsessed with the story of Isabel Sendales y Gómez, a nineteenth-century woman who traveled to America with twenty-two orphans and Dr. Francisco Xavier Balmis to bring the smallpox vaccine. The parallels with her own life weave a plot of romance, intrigue, and the fight against disease.
Translation by Jesús Vega of the original «Saving the World». First edition of 2007 in the Hispánica collection.
A work suitable for reading clubs and for those seeking historical and contemporary novels with female protagonists.
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.
