by Julia Alvarez · Laurel Leaf · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780375815454
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«Antes de ser libres» is the young adult historical novel by Julia Alvarez, published by Laurel Leaf in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Anita de la Torre is twelve years old and lives in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo's dictatorship. The secret police harass her family, her uncle disappears, and her father receives calls about butterflies and a certain Mr. Smith. Between fear and the awakening of adolescence, Anita tries to find her own path to freedom.
The Spanish translation of «Antes de ser libres» is by Liliana Valenzuela. «Antes de ser libres» won the Américas Award and the Pura Belpré Award; the original in English is Before We Were Free.
For young readers and teenagers interested in history, dictatorship, and coming-of-age novels.
Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers.
