Para salvar al mundo

julia alvarez jesus vega

Una escritora descubre similitudes sorprendentes entre su propia existencia y la historia de una valiente mujer del siglo XIX, doña Isabel Sendales y Gómez, quien junto a veintidós huérfanos acompañará al doctor Francisco Xavier Balmis en la Real expedición de la viruela. Los niños, inoculados con el virus, atravesarán el océano para hacer llegar la vacuna a las tierras de América. La determinación y valor de doña Isabel son fuente de inspiración de Alma Huebner quien poco a poco se obsesiona con los detalles de la aventura de esta mujer ejemplar.

Sin embargo, un acontecimiento conmovedor logra que dos destinos separados por el tiempo y el espacio se conecten en una trama donde el romance y la intriga, la lucha contra la miseria y la enfermedad marcan las vidas de las protagonistas de esta cruzada. Para salvar al mundo es una emotiva saga contemporánea donde la historia se escribe con inolvidables notas de sufrimiento y esperanza.

Genres fictionhistorical fictionbook clubhistoricalnovelsadult fictionaudiobookliteratureadultlatino

448 pages, Paperback

First published April 7,2006

This edition

Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Published: October 30, 2006 by Alfaguara
ISBN: 9781598205022
ASIN: 1598205021
Language: Spanish; Castilian

About the author

julia alvarez

Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.” In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling.

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