{"product_id":"the-cemetery-of-untold-stories-library-binding","title":"The Cemetery of Untold Stories - Library Binding","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Alvarez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Time of the Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland of the Dominican Republic.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of \u003ci\u003eThe Cemetery of Untold Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 characters unspool their secret tales. Among them: Bienvenida, the abandoned second wife of dictator Rafael Trujillo, consigned to oblivion by history, and Manuel Cruz, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The characters defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. \u003ci\u003eThe Cemetery of Untold Stories \u003c\/i\u003easks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Readers of Isabel Allende's \u003ci\u003eVioleta \u003c\/i\u003eand Barbara Kingsolver's \u003ci\u003eDemon Copperhead \u003c\/i\u003ewill devour Alvarez's extraordinary new novel about beauty and authenticity, and will be reminded that the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Alvarez\u003c\/b\u003e left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by \u003ci\u003eLatina\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's program \"The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.\" \u003ci\u003eIn the Time of the Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 385\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.5 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42153368453255,"sku":"9798885798648","price":63.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3f137ad17cb4b79819d9df8c19b2ee2d.webp?v=1733221066","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-cemetery-of-untold-stories-library-binding","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}