Name: Afterlife
SKU: 53731964
Price: 18.66 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 9781643751368

Type

Physical Book

Author

Julia Alvarez

Publisher

Algonquin Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.8x12.7x2 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781643751368

Synopsis "Afterlife "

A Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * The Washington Post *Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. magazine * The Millions * Huffington Post * PopSugar * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal * LitHub * Electric Literature The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents "A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own." --Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack--but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including--maybe especially--members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?

Julia Alvarez

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Julia Álvarez es una escritora dominicano-estadounidense cuya obra ha marcado de forma decisiva la literatura latinoamericana en EE. UU. Su trayectoria explora identidad, memoria, migración y la complejidad de crecer entre culturas. Con una prosa clara y emocionalmente precisa, Álvarez ha construido un puente entre la experiencia caribeña y la narrativa contemporánea en inglés. En 2013 recibió la National Medal of Arts, un reconocimiento mayor a su aporte literario.

Es autora de obras verificadas como “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents”, “In the Time of the Butterflies” y “Before We Were Free”, todas ampliamente difundidas y estudiadas por su hondura temática. Además de su narrativa, Álvarez ha participado activamente en iniciativas educativas y proyectos de fomento lector, consolidándose como una voz central en la literatura diaspórica. Su influencia sigue creciendo gracias a su capacidad para narrar, con autenticidad y sensibilidad, las tensiones y revelaciones que surgen al vivir entre mundos.

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