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Cuando las hermanas Garca Carla Sandra Yolanda y Sofa y sus padres huyen de la Repblica Dominicana buscando refugio de la persecucin poltica encuentran un nuevo hogar en los Estados Unidos Pero el Nueva York de los aos sesenta es marcadamente diferente de la vida privilegiada aunque conflictiva que han dejado atrs Bajo la presin de asimilarse a una nueva cultura las muchachas Garca se alisan el pelo abandonan la lengua espaola y se encuentran con muchachos sin una chaperona Pero por ms 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 ms celebradas de nuestros tiempos
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Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's program "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez." In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling.
