| En El Nombre de Salomé / In the Name of Salomé = In the Name of Salome Contributor(s): Alvarez, Julia (Author) |
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ISBN: 037572690X ISBN-13: 9780375726903 Publisher: Vintage Espanol OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: March 2002 Annotation: From the beloved author of "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and" In the Time of Butterflies, an epic and intimate novel about two generations of women and the personal impact of history. It the summer of 1960, Camila Henriquez Urena is about to travel from Poughkeepsie to Cuba to join Fidel Castro's revolution. As the daughter of Solome Urena-the 19th -century revolutionary Dominicana poet-activism is part of Camila's inheritance. Yet she also knows the confusion of exile and a painful curiosity about the mother she never knew. Now, as she takes up her mother's legacy, she delves behind the public facts of her mother's life and pieces together the story of the private Solome-and thus her own story. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001046570 |
| Lexile Measure: 970 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.16" W x 8" (0.61 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's |
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| Publisher Description: Es el verano de 1960 y Camila Henr quez Urena, profesora de espa ol jubil ndose de la Universidad de Vassar, est empacando sus ltimas pertenencias antes de mudarse de su apartamento en Poughkeepsie, Nueva York para unirse a la revoluci n de Fidel Castro en Cuba. Camila es hija de Salom Urena, la famosa poetisa dominicana de finales del siglo diecinueve que instigaba revoluci n con sus apasionados versos, se cas con un presidente y luch por educar a las ni as de su querida isla. Para Camila su llamado a la revoluci n es parte de su herencia. Pero Camila tambi n ha heredado la confusi n y el dolor del exilio y tiene s lo dos ba les llenos de papeles y efectos personales para iluminar el coraz n y la vida de una madre que nunca lleg a conocer de verdad -- y as tambi n descubrir su propio ser naciente. |