Saving the World

Name: Saving the World
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ISBN: 9781565125582

ISBN-10: 1565125584

ISBN-13: 9781565125582

Edition: N/A

Authors: Julia Alvarez

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Alma, the narrator of Saving the World, discovers a small historical footnote while doing research for a novel: In 1803, a Spanish doctor crossed the Atlantic with twenty-two orphan boys-live carriers of the smallpox vaccine-to inoculate the population of Spain's American colonies. Accompanying them on the two-year voyage was a mysterious woman, Isabel Sendales y Goacute;mez, the rectoress of the orphanage. Captivated by Isabe''s courage, Alma decides to tell the grueling story of their journey. Meanwhile, Alma's husband, working with an organization committed to eradicating AIDS in developing countries, travels to the Dominican Republic. When his life is threatened, it is Isabel's…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 4/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Julia Alvarez is a writer and a poet. She was born in the Dominican Republic. Alvarez wrote novels and poetry including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and In the Time of the Butterflies. Her poetry is collected in the book The Other Side of El Otro Lado. Alverez won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991 for How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent and was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award for In the Time of the Butterflies.