Books by Julia Alvarez (5)
1.
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
2.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. As they try to immerse themselves in the American way of life, Yolande and her three sisters will always see things through Dominican eyes.
3.
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.
4.
The Cemetery of Untold Stories : A Novel by Julia Alvarez EN
Country: North America / 
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Description:
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions 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 the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--
5.
Yo! by Julia Alvarez EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The American odyssey of Yo, a Dominican woman writer whose family arrived in the U.S. as refugees from a dictatorship. The novel follows her youth, with its energy and optimism, and the setbacks as she grows older, including two divorces.