The Cemetery of Untold Stories [electronic resource]
Julia Alvarez2024
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Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the international bestselling author of In the Time
of the Butterflies , returns with an inventive and emotional novel about
storytelling that will be an instant classic.Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at
the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories , doesn’t want to end up like her
friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it
threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the
Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into
a place to bury her untold stories — literally. She creates a graveyard for the
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. Filomena, a local woman hired as the
groundskeeper, becomes a sympathetic listener as Alma’s chara...
Main title:
The Cemetery of Untold Stories [electronic resource] / Julia Alvarez
Author:
Julia Alvarez, Author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (280 pages)
Series title:
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781913867836
Language:
English
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BRN:
528087
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