Alvarez Julia
Alvarez Julia - How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Hardcover
Alvarez Julia - How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Hardcover
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Description: A collectible hardcover thirtieth - anniversary edition of Julia Alvarez's modern Latinx classic that gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures featuring a new foreword by New York Times bestselling National Book Award winning novelist Elizabeth Acevedo A Penguin Vitae Edition The Garc a sisters Carla Sandra Yolanda and Sof a and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after the discovery of their father's role in an attempt to overthrow the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming United States their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try to find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions and by forgetting their Spanish. For them it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. In Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel How the Garc a Girls Lost Their Accents the sisters tell their stories about being at home and not at home in America. Penguin Vitae loosely translated as " Penguin of one's life" is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy - five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration intellectual engagement and creative originality.
Title: How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Author(s): Alvarez Julia
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780143136552
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/14/2021
Description: A collectible hardcover thirtieth - anniversary edition of Julia Alvarez's modern Latinx classic that gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures featuring a new foreword by New York Times bestselling National Book Award winning novelist Elizabeth Acevedo A Penguin Vitae Edition The Garc a sisters Carla Sandra Yolanda and Sof a and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after the discovery of their father's role in an attempt to overthrow the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming United States their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try to find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions and by forgetting their Spanish. For them it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. In Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel How the Garc a Girls Lost Their Accents the sisters tell their stories about being at home and not at home in America. Penguin Vitae loosely translated as " Penguin of one's life" is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy - five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration intellectual engagement and creative originality.
Title: How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Author(s): Alvarez Julia
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780143136552
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/14/2021
