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In the Name of Salome: A Novel Hardcover – 9 June 2000

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Publisher : Algonquin Books (9 June 2000)
Language : English
Hardcover : 357 pages
ISBN-10 : 1565122763
ISBN-13 : 978-1565122765
Dimensions : 14.94 x 2.92 x 21.64 cm

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Holly Short

Rührt zu Tränen

Reviewed in Germany on 21 August 2004

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Nach dem großartigen "In the Time of the Butterflies" ist dieses mein zweiter Roman von Julia Alvarez. Wieder ist es ein Roman, der auf historischen Begebenheiten basiert und dessen Personen von historischen Figuren inspiriert sind - dennoch ist es vor allem ein Roman, keine exakte Nachzeichnung der Geschichte. Was aber gar nichts macht! Denn die Charaktere sind auch hier kunstvoll gezeichnet, und Alvarez lässt die beiden Hauptfiguren Salomé und Camila abwechselnd sprechen - eine Kunst, die sie perfekt beherrscht.
Dieses Buch ist absolut lesenswert und rührt des öfteren zu Tränen ... ein Muss für alle, die sich für die südamerikanische Geschichte, Kultur und Literatur interessieren, und ein großartiges literarisches Denkmal für zwei sehr interessante Frauen!

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D. E. W. Turner

In The Name of Salome

Reviewed in the United States on 24 June 2009

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This is an historical novel about two people - a mother and daughter. The mother was Salomé Ureña, the poet laureate of the Dominican Republic. She wrote patriotic poems that inspired her country to rebel against Spain and she founded a school for girls at a time when girls were encouraged not to learn to read or write. She married Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal, with whom she had three sons and a daughter Camila, who was born three years before Salomé died of tuberculous in 1897. Camila was raised by her father and her stepmother Natividad Lauranzón. She became a professor of Spanish at Vassar University, from which she retired in 1960 - and went to Cuba to join Fidel Castro's revolution. She left Cuba at her youngest half-brother's insistence and died in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on September 12, 1973, being buried beside her parents. It was a very interesting book about revolution, the causes, and the idealism - as well as the disappointments and heartbreak of the idealists when they realize reality conflicts with idealism.

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Kelsey

Must have

Reviewed in the United States on 24 August 2019

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I have read this book a few times and will probably continue to read it. It is so good!

Riq S

good if you can get past the beginning

Reviewed in the United States on 19 November 2013

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This book had me in tear when I finished. The last chapters were like prophet's voices about the future of the Caribbean. I admit that the early Camila chapters had me struggling to read on. Once Camila became a teenager and then a child (the narrative goes in reverse), her voice crackled with electricity.

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Amy Goldstein Zern

Another sweeping family tale by Julia Alvarez

Reviewed in the United States on 11 March 2013

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In the spirit of her most popular works, Alvarez takes us to the Dominican Republic in the mid 19th century and swings to the U.S., Cuba, and Haiti in the mid 20th century using the family of Salome as a linchpin.

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