by Julia Alvarez · Punto de Lectura S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466369725
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The novel 'How the García Girls Lost Their Accents' by Julia Álvarez tells the story of the García sisters, who enjoy a privileged life in Santo Domingo until their family is forced to flee to the United States due to political persecution against their father. In their new home, the young women face cultural and generational challenges, discovering both the shortcomings and the freedoms of their host country, while dealing with the differences in mentality of their parents, who struggle to adapt to a new reality.
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.
