Search results
1 kwi 2024 · In Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” a graveyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded narratives.
2 kwi 2024 · Alma buys a plot of land in a working-class neighborhood in the Dominican Republic. Before she builds a casita to live in, she builds a cemetery for the stories. She burns the boxes—except for two that won’t catch fire—and inters them all.
2 kwi 2024 · An ode to the power of stories, storytelling and orature, The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez is an exquisitely penned character-driven novel that combines elements of historical fiction, magical realism and family drama. The narrative is presented from multiple perspectives across past and present timelines.
2 kwi 2024 · The characters who are “buried" in Alma's cemetery reveal parts of their lives that their "creator" didn't know about. What do you think that says about the role of a novelist and the limitations of a storyteller?
2 kwi 2024 · The Cemetery of Untold Stories. by Julia Alvarez. Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the bestselling author of IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES and HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic.
15 maj 2024 · The Cemetery of Untold Stories has considerably more complicated plotting, braiding four separate narratives and skillfully shifting among the perspectives of six characters. Alma must...
Two characters stand out: Papi, Alma’s father, a doctor turned dissident who hated talking about the past, and Bienvenida, a fictionalized version of the wife of Rafael Trujillo, the dictator who ruled the D.R. for 31 years.
