- Fiction, Women revolutionaries, History, Historia
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental.
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Earnest, grave, overwhelming and bleak.
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- gravecomic
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- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Julia Alvarez
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 325
- Publisher
- Editora Taller, Rocco, Alfaguara
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Spanish, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9781565129764
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“She is plucking her bird of paradise of its dead branches, leaning around the plant every time she hears a car.”
Born in New York City in 1950, Julia Alvarez's parents returned to their native country, Dominican Republic, shortly after her birth. Ten years later, the family was forced to flee to the United States because of her father’s involvement in a plot to overthrow the dictator, Trujillo. Alvarez has written novels (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, ¡Yo!, In the Name of Salomé, Saving the World, Afterlife), collections of poems (Homecoming, The Other Side/ El Otro Lado, The Woman I Kept to Myself), nonfiction (Something to Declare, Once Upon A Quinceañera, and A Wedding in Haiti), and numerous books for young readers (including the Tía Lola Stories series, B
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