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      Family Album

      by Claribel Alegria
      Published
      Jul 1995
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      191
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      These three novellas, by a writer who has earned her place in the forefront of Central American literature, explore three critical stages in a woman's life and are an extraordinary example of Claribel Alegria's ability to weave the magical and the real, the fantastic and the horrific. Karen, a young 'corrupted' Catholic school girl, talks to the walls and forms a strange relationship with an especially prudish nun. Ximena, a Nicaraguan woman living in Paris, finds herself being drawn into the 1979 revolution even though she is thousands of miles away. Marcia moves with her husband to Deya, a small mystical town in Mallorca where everyday life is a bizarre mixture of the supernatural and natural worlds.

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      First Edition Jul 1995 Northwestern University Press ISBN13 9780915306947 ISBN10 0915306948
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      Aug 1991 Curbstone Pr ISBN13 9780915306725 ISBN10 0915306727
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