De como las muchachas Garcia perdieron el acento Free Audiobook Download by Julia Alvarez

La novela que da nombre a esta entrada, De como las muchachas Garcia perdieron el acento es un cuento de Julia Alvarez. La historia nos relata la vida de las "muchachas Garcia", ciudadanas de Cuba en plena revolución que luchan para sobrevivir. Un grupo de las mismas se unen para escriturar una canción para su jefe revolucionario, y con ello desean hacerle comprender la necesidad de alimentar a su pueblo.

In this autobiographical novel, Julia Alvarez tells the story of how she lost her Mexican accent after being caught between living in Mexico and living in California. She tells the story of her friends and her family to give us a deeper understanding of what it is like for those who are on the outside looking in.

Julia Alvarez has been writing in Spanish since the 50s. In this story she tells of the Garcia girls and their family who move to Cuba from Mexico. One day, when they are home from school, their father says he is going to teach them some new words. They are reluctant but eventually agree. The words don't sound like anything they know so they ask him about it and he tells them that Cuba has changed words (unlike Mexico).

This is the story of how two sisters who were born and raised in Cuba, end up on opposite sides of the island. As the Cuban revolution was underway and Fidel Castro took power, Carmen and Luisa Garcia were at the center of the fight. On one side is Carmen, a poor rural girl whose family had to sell their cow in order to survive. She joins a student movement dedicated to overthrowing Batista's dictatorship led by Fidel Castro. The other sister is Luisa, an upper-class girl who grew up with privilege, but also watched her father go from entrepreneur to defector as they fled during Fidel's initial invasion of Cuba. And now she has her own baby boy that she wants to leave with her mother in Florida - away

Como el estado, la historia y la narración se hacen pasar por muchachas guerreras de clase, hay una subversión de quién son realmente las muchachas. Algunas personas creen que las muchachas no pueden hablar mal, pero las muchachas deben demostrar que tienen libertad para entenderse a sí mismas. Las muchachas necesitan aprobar su propia identidad, independientemente de qué sentido le otorguen los demás.

Julia Alvarez is a Mexican author that wrote a book called "The Book of Unknown Americans." Women in this book are not just people, they are mothers, daughters, siblings, and friends. This audiobook has three tales taken from the book. The three tales intertwine to form one story.