In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez
	List Price:   $15.00 Unit Price:   $12.00 You Save:   $3.00 (20%) ISBN-10:   0452282438 ISBN-13:   9780452282438 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   June 2001 Pages:   368 Format:   Paperback Ages:   18 to Grades:   12 to
Awards
2005  Quill Awards  Nominee/Honoree  1989  Toronto Book Awards  Winner!  2001  Toronto Book Awards  Nominee/Honoree  2002  International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  Great Lakes Book Awards  Winner!
Subjects
CARIBBEAN AREA_FICTION FICTION_HISTORICAL
Description/Notes
'Masterful ... rich & rewarding historical fiction ... poignant, colorful, exhilarating.' --The Denver Post. 'Heartrending.... An important work.'--Chicago Tribune. 'Striking ... Alvarez's powerful writing breathes life into the past, & like magic, resurrects the heroines of the Dominican-American heritage.... Timeless.' --The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. '[A] dazzling feat of narration ... Alvarez joins the ranks of Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Isabel Allende.... A novel for everyone who has ever loved & grieved over a parent, a child, a country.' --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In the Name of Salom? is equally the story of Salom? Ure?a and her daughter, Camila, who grows up in exile, in the shadow of her mother's legend. While Salom? dedicated her brief life to educating Dominican girls to serve their struggling new nation, Camila spent her career teaching Spanish to upper-class American girls. But when, at age sixty-six, Camila makes a decision to leave her life behind and join Castro's relovlution in Cuba, she begins a journey to make peace with her past. 'The story of my life starts with the story of my country... .' Thus begins Julia Alvarez's epic fictional account of the real-life Salomeacute; Urentilde;a-the 'Emily Dickinson of the Dominican Republic.' Born in the 1850s, in a time of intense political repression and turmoil, Salomeacute;'s fervent patriotic poems turned her-at seventeen-into a national icon. In the Name of Salomeacute; is equally the story of Salomeacute;'s daughter, Camila, who grows up in exile, in the shadow of her mother's legend. Shy and self-effacing, Camila's life is in stark contrast to Salomeacute;'s. While her mother dedicated her brief life to educating Dominican girls to serve their struggling new nation, Camila spent her career explaining the Spanish pluperfect to upper-class American girls. But when, at age sixty-six, Camila makes a decision to leave her comfortable life behind and join Castro's revolution in Cuba, she begins a journey to make peace with her past-and bring the lives of two remarkable women full circle. Spanning more than a century, In the Name of Salomeacute; proves Alvarez equally adept at capturing the sweep of history and the most intimate details of women's lives and hearts. It is Alvarez's richest and most inspiring novel to date. In 1868 in the Dominican Republic a teenage girl seized the imagination of a shackled nation. In the coming years, the passionate patriotic poems of Salome Urena would be quoted by schoolchildren, housewives, and revolutionaries throughout the Caribbean. And when she died, she would leave behind a three-year-old daughter whose life journey would be dominated by her mother's fiery spirit-and the absence of her touch. Julia Alvarez's extraordinary novel weaves the fascinating life of Salome with that of her shy, self-effacing daughter Camila, who comes of age in exile and, at age sixty-six, leaves her comfortable life in America behind to join Castro's revolution in Cuba. Spanning more than a century, In the Name of Salome is a powerful exploration of the bonds between mothers and daughters, and of the mysterious forces that inspire us to hope, to act, to heal, and to love. When 66-year-old Camila decides to leave her comfortable life behind and join Castro's revolution in Cuba, she begins to make peace with her past and can at last relate to her mother, Salom Urea, the 'Emily Dickinson of the Dominican Republic'. Now in paperback comes this bestselling work of historical fiction by the acclaimed author of 'How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents' and 'In the Time of the Butterflies'.