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Más allá : una novela / Julia Alvarez ; traducción de Mercedes Guhl.

Alvarez, Julia. (author.). Guhl, Mercedes, (translator.).

Summary:

Poco después de jubilarse de la universidad donde enseñnaba literatura, Antonia Vega, una escritora latina, pierde a su adorado esposo y su vida parece desmoronarse de repente. Hasta entonces parecía haber encontrado consuelo en la literatura que ama--las palabras de sus autores preferidos dan vueltas en su cabeza como plegarias--, pero la desaparición de su hermana, con su personalidad impredecible y su gran corazón, junto con la aparición de una inmigrante ilegal en el garaje de su casa, devuelven a Antonia a la dura realidad. En estas circunstancias, el mundo requiere más que palabras. Mas allá es una novela ágil y de prosa depurada. En momentos en los que reinan la confusión y el caos, la protagonista se plantea: ©Le debemos algo a los que sufren, sean inmigrantes desconocidos o familiares cercanos? ©Cómo podemos mantener la fe en los demás y en nosotros mismos en una realidad destrozada? Y, sobre todo, ©cómo honramos a las personas que amamos y hemos perdido?
"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?"--Amazon.com viewed Feb. 8, 2022

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593082584
  • ISBN: 0593082583
  • Physical Description: 215 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Primera edición Vintage Españnol.
  • Publisher: Nueva York : Vintage Españnol, una división de Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.

Content descriptions

Language Note:
En españnol. In Spanish.
Subject: Authors > Fiction.
Widows > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Noncitizens > Fiction.
Responsibility > Fiction.
Illegal immigration > Fiction.
Vermont > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Novels.

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