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Cemetery of Untold Stories / Cementerio de Las Historias No Contadas Sp. Ed.: Julia Alvarez Cemetery of Untold Stories / Cementerio de Las Historias No Contadas Sp. Ed.
Julia Alvarez
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback): Julia Alvarez In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R485 R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everyone knows of Las Mariposas - "The Butterflies." Now, three decades later, Julia Alvarez, also a daughter of the Dominican Republic and long haunted by these sisters, immerses us in a tangled and dangerous moment in Hispanic Caribbean history to tell their story in the only way it can truly be understood - through fiction. In this brilliantly characterized novel, the voices of all four sisters - Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and Dede - speak across the decades, to tell their own stories - from hair ribbons to gunrunning to prison torture - and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. The Butterflies were extraordinary women. Minerva, once the object of the dictator's desire, had dared to publicly slap his face. Devout Patria found her calling to the uprising through the church. Alluring - and vain - Maria Teresa joined in pursuit of romance. Only Dede, the practical one, the most diligent in her duty to family and tradition, kept apart. And only she survived to see that their names were remembered. Now, through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again. And Dede joins them as a heroine of equal courage.

The Other Side/El Otro Lado (Paperback): Julia Alvarez The Other Side/El Otro Lado (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The New York Times Book Review has praised Julia Alvarez's fiction as "powerful...beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant where the past is not yet a memory and the future remains an anxious dream." These same qualities characterize her poetry--from the "Making Up the Past" poems, which explore a life of exile as lived by a young girl, to "the Joe Poems," a series of wonderfully sensual and funny love poems celebrating a middle-aged romance. The collection culminates in the twenty one-part title poem about the poet's return to her native Dominican Republic and the internal conflict and ultimate affirmation that journey occasioned. Bold innovation and invention, the interplay of sound and sense, and the rhythm of two languages all characterize Julia Alvarez's art in transforming precious memory into unforgettable poetry.

Something to Declare - Essays (Paperback): Julia Alvarez Something to Declare - Essays (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Already a Butterfly - A Meditation Story (Hardcover): Julia Alvarez Already a Butterfly - A Meditation Story (Hardcover)
Julia Alvarez; Illustrated by Raul Colon
R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
In the Time of the Butterflies (Hardcover): Julia Alvarez In the Time of the Butterflies (Hardcover)
Julia Alvarez; Foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston
R785 R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
El Mejor Regalo del Mundo - La Leyenda de La Vieja Belen (Bilingual Edition) / The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja... El Mejor Regalo del Mundo - La Leyenda de La Vieja Belen (Bilingual Edition) / The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belen (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Julia Alvarez; Illustrated by Ruddy Nunez
R354 R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Hardcover): Julia Alvarez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Hardcover)
Julia Alvarez; Foreword by Elizabeth Acevedo
R729 R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Save R202 (28%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback): Julia Alvarez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R480 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R58 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family they left behind. What they have lost - and what they find - is revealed in the fifteen interconnected stories that make up this exquisite novel from one of the premier novelists of our time.

Just as it is a feature of the immigrant experience to always look back, the novel begins with thirty-nine-year-old Yolanda's return to the island and moves magically backward in time to the final days before the exile that is to transform the sisters' lives. Along the way we witness their headlong plunge into the American mainstream. Although the girls try to distance themselves from their island life by ironing their hair, forgetting their Spanish, and meeting boys unchaperoned, they remain forever caught between the old world and the new. With bright humor and rare insight, Julia Alvarez vividly evokes the tensions and joys of belonging to two distinct cultures in a novel that is utterly authentic and full of irrepressible spirit.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Selected Works (Paperback): Juana Ines De LA Cruz Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Selected Works (Paperback)
Juana Ines De LA Cruz; Translated by Edith Grossman; Introduction by Julia Alvarez
R371 R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Save R23 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico", names that continue to resonate. This self-taught intellectual rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. The volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works, including "First Dream", which showcases her prodigious intellect and range and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz", her epistolary feminist defence of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works are also included.

Antes de ser libres (Spanish, Paperback): Julia Alvarez Antes de ser libres (Spanish, Paperback)
Julia Alvarez; Translated by Liliana Valenzuela
R294 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R20 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Before We Were Free (Paperback): Julia Alvarez Before We Were Free (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback): Julia Alvarez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Garcias-Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia-belong to the uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins the "palacio" of the dictator's daughter. So when Dr. Garcia's part in a coup attempt is discovered, the family must flee.
They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Dominican Republic. Papi has to find new patients in the Bronx. Mami, far from the compound and the family retainers, must find herself. Meanwhile, the girls try to "lose" themselves-by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating being caught between the old world and the new, trying to live up to their father's version of honor while accommodating the expectations of their American boyfriends. Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's brilliant and buoyant first novel sets the Garcia girls free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home-and not at home-in America.

What Saves Us - Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Paperback): Martin Espada What Saves Us - Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Paperback)
Martin Espada; Contributions by Julia Alvarez, Doug Anderson, Naomi Ayala, Benjamin Balthaser, …
R632 R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump-about much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-two poets featured include Juan Felipe Herrera, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forche, Patricia Smith, Robert Pinsky, Donald Hall, Elizabeth Alexander, Ocean Vuong, Marge Piercy, Yusef Komunyakaa, Brian Turner, and Naomi Shihab Nye. They speak of persecuted and scapegoated immigrants. They bear witness to violence: police brutality against African Americans, mass shootings in a school or synagogue. They testify to poverty, the waitress surviving on leftovers at the restaurant, the battles of a teacher in a shelter for homeless mothers, the emergency-room doctor listening to the heartbeats of his patients. There are voices of labor, in the factory and the fields. There are prophetic voices, imploring us to imagine the world we will leave behind in ruins lest we speak and act. However, this is not merely a collection of grievances. The poets build bridges. One poet steps up to translate in Arabic at the airport; another declaims a musical manifesto after the hurricane that devastated his island; another evokes a demonstration in the street, an ecstasy of defiance, the joy of resistance. The poets take back the language, resisting the demagogic corruption of words themselves. They assert our common humanity.

Before We Were Free (Hardcover, Bound for Schools & Libraries ed.): Julia Alvarez Before We Were Free (Hardcover, Bound for Schools & Libraries ed.)
Julia Alvarez
R693 R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Save R80 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Yo! (Paperback): Julia Alvarez Yo! (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Return to Sender (Paperback): Julia Alvarez Return to Sender (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R242 R218 Discovery Miles 2 180 Save R24 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn't sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?
In a novel full of hope, but no easy answers, Julia Alvarez weaves a beautiful and timely story that will stay with readers long after they finish it.

"From the Hardcover edition."

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Selected Works (Hardcover): Juana Ines De LA Cruz Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Selected Works (Hardcover)
Juana Ines De LA Cruz; Translated by Edith Grossman; Introduction by Julia Alvarez
R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sor Juana (1651 1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age.

This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz," her epistolary feminist defense evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works playful ballads, extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love, and a selection from an allegorical play with a distinctive New World flavor are also included."

The Teeny Tiny Amargasaurus: Joseph Greene The Teeny Tiny Amargasaurus
Joseph Greene; Julia Alvarez
R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Once Upon a Quinceanera - Coming of Age in the USA (Paperback): Julia Alvarez Once Upon a Quinceanera - Coming of Age in the USA (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a "phenomenal, indispensable" (USA Today) exploration of the Latina "sweet fifteen" celebration, by the bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. The quinceanera, a celebration of a Latina girl's fifteenth birthday, has become a uniquely American trend. This lavish party with ball gowns, multi-tiered cakes, limousines, and extravagant meals is often as costly as a prom or a wedding. But many Latina girls feel entitled to this rite of passage, marking a girl's entrance into womanhood, and expect no expense to be spared, even in working-class families. Acclaimed author Julia Alvarez explores the history and cultural significance of the "quince" in the United States, and the consequences of treating teens like princesses. Through her observations of a quince in Queens, interviews with other quince girls, and the memories of her own experience as a young immigrant, Alvarez presents a thoughtful and entertaining portrait of a rapidly growing multicultural phenomenon, and passionately emphasizes the importance of celebrating Latina womanhood.

En el tiempo de las mariposas (Spanish, Paperback): Julia Alvarez En el tiempo de las mariposas (Spanish, Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R466 R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Save R85 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Un libro importante...emocionalmente sobrecogedor. Alvarez nos hace un regalo cargado de rara generosidad y coraje."-The San Diego Union-Tribune In 1960 in the Dominican Republic, four young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Alvarez brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in an extraordinary novel. Ellas eran las cuatro hermanas Mirabal-simbolos de una esperanza desafiante en un pais ensombrecido por la dictadura y la desesperacion. Sacrificaron sus vidas, seguras, y confortables, en nombre de la libertad. Ellas eran "las Mariposas," y en esta novela extraordinaria, Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, y Dede nos cuentan, a traves de las decadas, sus propias historias. Desde anecdotas sobre lazos para el pelo y secretos enamoramientos al contrabando de armas y las torturas en la carcel. Con ellas aprendemos los horrores cotidianos de la vida bajo el dictador dominicano Trujillo. A traves del arte y la magia de la aclamada e imaginativa novelista Julia Alvarez, la dramatica y vibrante vida de estas martirizadas mariposas toma forma en una historia calida, brillante y desgarradora en la que se nos muestra el incalculable coste humando derivado de la opresion politica. "Un regalo de amor sinfonico y esplendido...un magnifico tesoro para todas las culturas y todos los tiempos...una novela que celebra la corriente de vida que fluye entre las mujeres, conectandolas y dandolas coraje para luchar por la justicia y la resistencia, y corazones para amar y perdonar libremente...Julia Alvarez es una escritora asombrosa."-St. Petersburg Times "Maravilloso...una narracion enriquecedora...entrelaza habilmente la realidad y la ficcion hasta alcanzar un sobrecogedor climax."-Newsweek "Una novela con un tremendo poder... un libro bello y valiente."-West Coast Review of Books

Mas alla / Afterlife (Spanish, Paperback): Julia Alvarez Mas alla / Afterlife (Spanish, Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R385 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over (Paperback): Julia Alvarez How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R180 R170 Discovery Miles 1 700 Save R10 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tia Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over. But Tia Lola and the children soon realize that running a B & B isn't as easy they had initially thought--especially when it appears that someone is out to sabotage them Will Tia Lola and the kids discover who's behind the plot to make their B & B fail? And will Tia Lola's family and friends be able to plan her a surprise birthday party in her own B & B without her finding out?
With the release of this Yearling edition, all four Tia Lola Stories are now available in paperback.

De como las muchachas Garcia perdieron el acento / How the Garcia Girls Lost The ir Accents (Spanish, Paperback): Julia Alvarez De como las muchachas Garcia perdieron el acento / How the Garcia Girls Lost The ir Accents (Spanish, Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R420 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cuando las hermanas Garcia --Carla, Sandra, Yolanda y Sofia-- y sus padres huyen de la Republica Dominicana buscando refugio de la persecucion politica, encuentran un nuevo hogar en los Estados Unidos. Pero el Nueva York de los anos sesenta es marcadamente diferente de la vida privilegiada, aunque conflictiva, que han dejado atras. Bajo la presion de asimilarse a una nueva cultura, las muchachas Garcia se alisan el pelo, abandonan la lengua espanola y se encuentran con muchachos sin una chaperona. Pero por mas que intentan distanciarse de su isla natal, las hermanas no logran desprender el mundo antiguo del nuevo.
Lo que las hermanas han perdido para siempre --y lo que logran encontrar-- se revela en esta novela magistral de una de las novelistas mas celebradas de nuestros tiempos.

A Wedding in Haiti (Paperback): Julia Alvarez A Wedding in Haiti (Paperback)
Julia Alvarez
R562 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R97 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a story that travels beyond borders and between families, acclaimed Dominican novelist and poet Julia Alvarez reflects on the joys and burdens of love for her parents, for her husband, and for a young Haitian boy known as Piti. In this intimate true account of a promise kept, Alvarez takes us on a journey into experiences that challenge our way of thinking about history and how it can be reimagined when people from two countries traditional enemies and strangers become friends. "

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