How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

ISBN-13: 9780747572657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str.

Julia Alvarez

Opis

A novel of Latin American life.

Recenzje

'Simply wonderful writing, and there's a good deal of it in this debut novel by a lively and gifted author' Los Angeles Times

O autorze

Julia Alvarez grew up in the Dominican Republic and emigrated to the United States in 1960. How The García Girls Lost Their Accents received the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, was listed by Américas magazine as 1993's #1 bestseller in Latin America, and was named by both the ALA and the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 1991. Her second novel, In The Time Of The Butterflies, was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works include !Yo!, Something To Declare and In The Name Of Salomé. She is also the author of children's and young adult books and poetry collections. She lives in Vermont and in the Dominican Republic, where she and her husband have a sustainable coffee farm and literacy centre.