HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS
Book ID/图书代码： 12560506B01697
English Summary/英文概要： The Garcías—Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—belong to the uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins the palacio of the dictator’s daughter. So when Dr. García’s part in a coup attempt is discovered, the family must flee.
They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Dominican Republic. Papi has to find new patients in the Bronx. Mami, far from the compound and the family retainers, must find herself. Meanwhile, the girls try to lose themselves—by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating being caught between the old world and the new, trying to live up to their father’s version of honor while accommodating the expectations of their American boyfriends. Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s brilliant and buoyant first novel sets the García girls free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home—and not at home—in America.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 加西亚女孩是如何失去乡音的？渴望融入她们在美国迈阿密的新文化，四个加西亚女孩熨平了她们的头发，抽烟，与美国男人约会，忘掉了她们的西班牙语，在成长的旅途中失去了她们的方向，失去了乡音。
Awards/获奖情况：‘She has beautifully captured the threshold experience of the new immigrant’---New York Times Book Review ‘Compelling … a classic tale of immigration … warm and honest’---Elle
’Simply wonderful writing, and there’s a good deal of it in this debut novel by a lively and gifted author’---Los Angeles Times
’In telling this story, Alvarez treats the subjects of immigration, exile, Hispanic culture and the American Dream with a sensitive and often irreverent touch’---Washington Post
About the Author/作者介绍： Julia Alvarez grew up in the Dominican Republic and emigrated to the United States in 1960. How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents received the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, was listed by Americas magazine as 1993’s #1 bestseller in Latin America, and was named by both the ALA and the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 1991. Her second novel, In The Time Of The Butterflies, was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works include !Yo!, Something To Declare and In The Name Of Salome. She is also the author of children’s and young adult books and poetry collections. She lives in Vermont and in the Dominican Republic, where she and her husband have a sustainable coffee farm and literacy centre.
Julia Alvarez十岁的时候，她的全家必须逃离多米尼亚，因为她的爸爸涉嫌反对独裁者Trujillo的政变。四个月后他爸爸的同志都被杀害了。这些危险的时刻和逃亡生活的经历形成了Julia Alvarez小说的风格。使她走上了写作生涯是因为来到了这个国家，突然一切都消失了，文化，家乡，语言，家庭……我想要一个可爱的家乡，但那只是幻想中的事情了。流亡成了Julia Alvarez两部畅销小说的主题：《加西亚女孩是如何失去乡音的》《YO》。她爸爸的革命情节鼓励她写作了《蝴蝶到来的时刻》。那些小说赢得了很多的荣誉，约瑟芬•迈尔斯笔会奖，获得美国图书馆协会备受关注书籍，美国畅销榜前十位图书，并参加国家图书论坛奖的角逐。这些书已经翻译成了九种语言出版。另外，Julia Alvarez的第一部非小说作品：她的最好的，最有影响的散文集，出版于1998年。
Format:TRADE PAPERBACK
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991; Algonquin paperback, 2010; Vintage Español, 2008; Croatia: Mozaik Knjiga, 2005; Denmark: Gyldendal, 1995 (OP); Dominican Republic, Santillana, 2013 (Spanish);France/French Canada: Flammarion, 1993; Germany: Econ, 1992; Greece: Livani, 1996; Iran: Asad Amraee, 2005; Netherlands: Luitingh Sijthoff, 1995; Norway: Gyldendal, 1995 (OP); Spain, Latin America, Mexico : Alfaguara, 2006; UK: Bloomsbury, 2004; Recorded Books in English and Spanish, 2006-7
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