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Martita, I Remember You / Martita, te recuerdo

Name: Martita, I Remember You / Martita, te recuerdo
Rating: 4.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780593313671

Liliana Valenzuela; Sandra Cisneros

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The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past. As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call home from a broken pay phone. But the months of befriending panhandling artists in the métro, sleeping on crowded floors, and dancing the tango at underground parties are given a lasting glow by her intense friendships with Martita and Paola. Over the years the three women disperse to three continents, falling out of touch and out of...

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Year:

2021

Publisher:

Vintage

Language:

English, Spanish

ISBN 10:

2021005551

ISBN 13:

9780593313671