Julia Alvarez: The Cemetery of Untold Stories
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
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EUR 15,54*
- Hachette Book Group USA, 04/2025
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781643756073
- Bestellnummer: 11977709
- Umfang: 272 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.4.2025
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.“Only an alchemist as wise and sure as Alvarez could swirl the elements of folklore and the flavor of magical realism around her modern prose and make it all sing . . . Lively, joyous . . . often witty, occasionally somber and elegiac.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, The New York Times Book Review
"Engaging and written in a playful, crystal-clear prose, this novel explores friendship, love, sisterhood, living between cultures, and how people can be haunted by the things they don’t finish . . . Entertaining . . . Heartwarming." —Gabino Iglesias, The Boston Globe
**Named a Most Anticipated Book by the New York Times, Washington Post, Today. com, Goodreads, B&N Reads, Literary Hub, HipLatina, BookPage, BBC. com, Zibby Mag, and more**
Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories—literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her.
Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. But they have other ideas and soon begin to defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. Filomena, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper, becomes a sympathetic listener to the secret tales unspooled by Alma's characters. Among them, Bienvenida, dictator Rafael Trujillo's abandoned wife who was erased from the official history, and Manuel Cruz, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States.
The Cemetery of Untold Stories asks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories. Julia Alvarez reminds us that the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.
Biografie
Julia Alvarez, geboren 1950, kam als Zehnjährige mit ihren Eltern aus der Dominikanischen Republik in die USA. sie lehrte viele Jahre Literatur am Middlebury College in Vermont, wo sie auch heute lebt; inzwischen widmet sie sich ganz dem Schreiben und - zusammen mit ihrem Mann - einer Öko-Kaffeefarm in Alta Gracia. Julia Alvarez
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
EUR 15,54*