Maria José Ferrada
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On May 27, 1937, over four hundred children sailed for Morelia, Mexico, fleeing the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Home was no longer safe, and Mexico was welcoming refugees by the thousands. Each child packed a suitcase and boarded the Mexique, expecting to return home in a few months. This was just a short trip, an extra-long summer vacation, they thought. But the war did not end in a few months, and the children stayed, waiting and wondering,...
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Luego de su exitosa primera novela, Kramp, que la New York Times Book Review calificó de "excepcional", María José Ferrada vuelve a la narrativa con El hombre del cartel.
Miguel, un niño de once años, describe la vida cotidiana en una población periférica y la tragedia que sufren los "sin casa", mientras trata de entender la decisión de su tío de abandonar la villa e irse a vivir, literalmente, a un cartel publicitario de Coca-Cola.
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On September 11, 1973, a military coup plunged Chile into seventeen long years of dictatorial rule. Only the return of democracy could reveal the full horrors of Augusto Pinochet's regime: 3,197 people dead or disappeared-including thirty-four children under the age of fourteen.
This book is a stirring memorial to those victims and to the cost of extremism. Thirty-four poems-one for each child lost-consider the diverse hopes of these fragile young...