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Alfaguara Presents \u00c1ngela Hern\u00e1ndez N\u00fa\u00f1ez’s New Novel<\/SPAN><\/STRONG> T<\/SPAN>he Alfaguara Publishing Company and the Corripio Foundation invite to the launching of the new novel by \u00c1ngela Hern\u00e1ndez N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Leona, o la fiera vida<\/STRONG> (Leona, or the fierce life), during a ceremony that will be held on Friday, December 7th, 2013, at 6:30 pm, in the “Manuel Rueda” Conference Room of the Corripio Foundation. The keynote address will be delivered by renowned author and art critic Jeannette Miller. <\/P> \u201cOne day I would bring Beba and my sisters and Antonio into a sound life. The most important thing was for them to stay alive until they reach me, once I was ready to take over.\u201d So thinks Leona, a young woman growing up in the idyllic countryside of Quima in the late 50s. Leona\u2019s story begins with her adventures and antics as a child, the strict supervision of her widowed mother, and the limitations of their livelihoods. <\/P> Sent to the Capital by her mother, she will experience the political instability of the years that follow Trujillo\u2019s fall from power, and will face her own dangers and challenges, such as the attempted rape of someone close to her and the days she spent with a couple of progressive Italians. Then, her family will find itself between two opposing forces at the outbreak of the war of April of 1965, and Leona will manage to maintain some sanity within the family unit. <\/P> This novel is about learning, about the road to maturity; it is based on the unbreakable bonds of home and family, which the mighty narrative skills and the cautious lyrical breath of \u00c1ngela Hern\u00e1ndez shape into a universe of its own, set on such a real and yet unknown Quima. <\/P> \u00c1ngela Hern\u00e1ndez is a storyteller and a poet. She has published the storybooks Al\u00f3tropos (1989), Masticar una rosa [Chew a rose] (1993), Piedra de Sacrificio [Stone of Sacrifice] (1998 National Prize) and La Secta del Crisantemo [The Chrysanthemum Sect] (2013 National Prize). Also the novels Mudanza de los Sentidos [The Transformation of the Senses] (2000 Cole Prize for Brief Novel), Charamicos (2003), and Met\u00e1fora del Cuerpo en Fuga [Metaphor of the Body in Flight] (2006), and several books of poetry and essays. Some of her works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Icelandic, Bengali and Norwegian, and appear in anthologies at home and abroad. She has been Director of the Xinesquema literary magazine and is a Corresponding Member of the Dominican Academy of Language. <\/P> Alfaguara Presents \u00c1ngela Hern\u00e1ndez N\u00fa\u00f1ez’s New NovelSanto Domingo, December 3, 2013 The Alfaguara Publishing Company and the Corripio Foundation invite to the launching of the new novel by \u00c1ngela Hern\u00e1ndez N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Leona, o la fiera vida (Leona, or the fierce life), during a ceremony that will be held on Friday, December 7th, 2013, at 6:30 … Continue reading “Alfaguara Presents \u00c1ngela Hern\u00e1ndez N\u00fa\u00f1ez’s New Novel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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