- Human rights, Extranjeros indocumentados, Profesorado, Universidades
In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help.
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Earnest, grave, spare and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Isabel Allende
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Vintage Espanol, Plaza & Janés, Bertrand
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- gre, German, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9789500758789
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Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (Lima, Perú; 2 de agosto de 1942) es una escritora chilena con nacionalidad estadounidense, de ascendencia hispano-portuguesa y nacida en Perú. Desde 2004 es miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras. Obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura de su país en 2010. La venta total de sus libros alcanza 73 millones de ejemplares y sus obras han sido traducidas a 42 idiomas. Es considerada como la escritora viva más leída del mundo de la lengua española. Sobrina y ahijada del expresidente chileno Salvador Allende (1970 - 1973), comenzó su carrera literaria como periodista. Tras el la muerte de su tío en el golpe militar de Chile en 1973 y el derro
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