by Julia Alvarez · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420429915
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«¡Yo!» is the novel by Julia Álvarez, published by Alfaguara in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
Julia Álvarez examines the lives of Dominican immigrants in the United States and the internal conflicts of those who move between two cultures. Through her characters, the novel shows the difficulty of adapting to a different society and the struggle to find one's own voice in a multicultural context.
It is the sequel to «How the García Girls Lost Their Accents» and was published in 1998. This Spanish edition is translated by Dolores Prida.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories about migration, cultural identity, and the Latino experience in the United States.
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.
