Julia Alvarez

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "simply wonderful", How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents captures the vivid lives of the Garcia sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America. In the 1960s, political tension forces the Garcia family away from...

The bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, examines the parties and preparations of the quincea–era...

La inigualable Julia Alvarez, autora de En el tiempo de las mariposas y De cómo las muchachas García perdieron el acento, regresa con una extraordinaria e íntima novela que nos recuerda que las historias de vida jamás están realmente acabadas. Ni siquiera cuando llega el final. **Uno de los...

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award with In the Time of Butterflies, author Julia Alvarez is a beloved voice in modern fiction and poetry. In Saving the World, she weaves the stories of two courageous women—separated by two centuries—into a breathtaking novel of love and...

Con lírica simplicidad, El cuento del cafecito es una historia de amor. De amor a la tierra, que, exhausta, ha dejado de devolvernos más de lo que le damos. De amor a la naturaleza, que, exhausta, tiene pocas ganas de sonreírnos....

The first adult novel in almost 15 years by the internationally best-selling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from...

La primera novela para adultos en casi 15 años de la autora internacionalmente superventas de In the Time of the Butterflies y How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. Antonia Vega, la escritora inmigrante en el centro de Afterlife, ha sacado la alfombra de debajo de ella. Acaba de retirarse...

Julia Alvarez returns to her first love, poetry, in her latest collection, with scintillating poems drawn from all the seasons of her life, from childhood to the years of silver. “Visitations is a cause for celebration. The first book of poems by Julia Alvarez in over twenty years braids...