by Marjorie Agosin · Atheneum Books for Young Readers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781665917094
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«Viví en el Cerro Mariposa» is the young adult novel by Marjorie Agosín, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
Celeste Marconi, an eleven-year-old girl from Valparaíso, watches her country fall under a military dictatorship. When her parents, both doctors, must go into hiding, they send her to the coast of Maine, where she knows no one and speaks no English. Between nostalgia and uncertainty, Celeste survives exile while waiting to be reunited with her family.
Novel illustrated by Lee White, with Spanish translation by Alison Ridley and Marjorie Agosín. It belongs to The Butterfly Hill Series and is recognized with the Pura Belpré Award.
Aimed at readers aged 10 to 14 and those seeking historical fiction about the Chilean dictatorship and exile.
Marjorie Agosín was a Chilean-American writer. She won notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile. The United Nations honored her for her work on human rights. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2000. She has been a recipient of the Belpré Medal. In the United States, she received the Letras de Oro, the Latino Literary Prize, and the Peabody Award, together with the United Nations Leadership Award in Human Rights.
