Marjorie Agosín is the Pura Belpré Award–winning author of I Lived on Butterfly Hill and The Maps of Memory. Raised in Chile, her family moved to the United States to escape the horrors of the Pinochet takeover of their country. She has received the Letras de Oro Prize for her poetry, and her writings about—and humanitarian work for—women in Chile have been the focus of feature articles in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Ms. magazine. She has also won the Latino Literature Prize for her poetry. She is a Spanish professor at Wellesley College.
"El árbol florido" es un texto basado en hechos reales, que cuenta cómo es la nueva vida de una familia judía que escapa de los conflictos en Europa y llega a la región de Valparaíso en Chile, específicamente a Quillota. La narración se realiza desde el punto de vista de Celeste,...
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