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The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past. As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call...

Au cœur de l’Amérique profonde, deux petites filles noires s’inventent une autre vie, plus riche, plus drôle, plus libre surtout que la dure réalité qui les entoure. Ainsi lient-elles une amitié qu’elles veulent définitive. L’âge venant, Sula, la rebelle, part rouler sa bosse dans les grandes villes alors que Nel, la sage, accomplit sa vocation de mère et d’épouse. Quarante ans après, elles font leurs comptes, s’opposent et incarnent chacune à leur manière la farouche énergie de la femme noire face aux hommes si vulnérables. De sa voix exceptionnelle, Toni Morrison...

The story revolves around Fortunata and Jacinta, two women of different classes who claim Juanito Santa Cruz as their husband. Juanito, the scion of a wealthy family, goes around carousing and womanizing with his friends. In one of these episodes, he is taken with Fortunata, a young woman of the lower class. This encounter ends when Juanito grows bored of Fortunata and disappears from her life leaving her pregnant. Worried about Juanito's lifestyle, his mother decides to marry him to his cousin Jacinta and arranges a series of meetings between them that end in marriage. During their...

This is an anthology of short stories where young people is present, with all the sentiments, doubts, anxiety and insecurities. Esta antologia complila cuentos sobre la juventud, esa estapa de la vida donde pueden pasar las cosas mas terribles sin que nadie se percate, ese periodo indefinido, pues para algunos es adolescencia y para otros es la vida emocional inacabada e insegura.