How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent-加西亚家的女孩不再带口音

作者：Julia Alvarez

书名：How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent《加西亚家的女孩不再带口音》

中文简介：1991年，多米尼加美国诗人、小说家和散文家茱莉亚·阿尔瓦雷斯写了一部小说，讲述了女孩如何失去口音。小说以倒序的方式讲述。这个故事跨越了四姐妹30多年的生活，从她们在美国的成年生活开始，到她们在多米尼加共和国的童年结束，她们的家人因为父亲反对拉斐尔·勒伊尼达斯·特鲁基略的独裁统治而被迫逃离多米尼加共和国。

英文简介：Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters--Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía--and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. Here they tell their stories about being at home--and not at home--in America.