Saving the World

商家名称	信用等级	购买信息	订购本书
		Saving the World
		Saving the World

基本信息·出版社：A Shannon Ravenel Book
·页码：400 页
·出版日期：2007年04月
·ISBN：1565125584
·International Standard Book Number：1565125584
·条形码：9781565125582
·EAN：9781565125582
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Shannon Ravenel Books

内容简介 Alma, the narrator of Saving the World, discovers a small historical footnote while doing research for a novel: In 1803, a Spanish doctor crossed the Atlantic with twenty-two orphan boys—live carriers of the smallpox vaccine—to inoculate the population of Spain's American colonies. Accompanying them on the two-year voyage was a mysterious woman, Isabel Sendales y Gómez, the rectoress of the orphanage. Captivated by Isabe'’s courage, Alma decides to tell the grueling story of their journey.

Meanwhile, Alma's husband, working with an organization committed to eradicating AIDS in developing countries, travels to the Dominican Republic. When his life is threatened, it is Isabel's strength and resolve that arouse Alma's unexpectedly heroic action.

This novel within a novel presents the radiant stories of two women swept up in campaigns against the scourges of their day.
作者简介 Julia Alvarez is the author of five books of fiction, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, as well as a book of essays; five collections of poetry; and five books for children. She lives in Vermont, where she is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College.
媒体推荐 "This engrossing, expertly paced novel links two women, centuries apart, touched by battles against smallpox and AIDS. It's clear by story's end that the past informs the present and that altruism has its costs."—People (People Magazine )

"This engrossing, expertly paced novel lnks two women, centuries apart, touched by battles against smallpox and AIDS. It's clear by story's end that the past informs the present and that altruism has its costs." 'People.' (People Magazine )

“Saving the World is wise and spellbinding as it ponders the difficulty of the human condition in any era, and the ways the actions and decisions of a few individuals can make things better or worse.”— Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minneapolis Star-Tribune )

"A gripping story of love, politics, greed and good intentions."—MSNBC.com (MSNBC.com )

"Artfully braids together the stories of two women separated by 200 years. . . .Beautifully written."—Chicago Sun-Times (Chicago Sun-Times )

"Remarkable...Saving the World depicts the need to belong to something deeper and more enduring than ourselves."
—The Washington Post Book World (The Washington Post )

A gripping story of love, politics, greed and good intentions.MSNBC.com

Artfully braids together the stories of two women separated by 200 years. . . .Beautifully written.Chicago Sun-Times (Chicago Sun-Times )

Remarkable...Saving the World depicts the need to belong to something deeper and more enduring than ourselves. The Washington Post Book World (The Washington Post )

Saving the World is wise and spellbinding as it ponders the difficulty of the human condition in any era, and the ways the actions and decisions of a few individuals can make things better or worse. Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minneapolis Star-Tribune )
专业书评 From the Back Cover

While Alma Huebert is researching a new novel, she finds her real story—and her salvation—in a little-known but staggering historical footnote: the Royal Expedition of the Vaccine. In 1803, Don Francisco Balmis embarked on a two-year sea voyage to rescue the New World from smallpox. Accompanying him were twenty-two orphan boys, acting as live carriers, and their guardian, Isabel Sendales y Gómez. As Alma digs deeper into Isabel's life, she finds her own power to commit an act as life-changing as Isabel's.

In Saving the World, Julia Alvarez, author of perennial bestsellers, including How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, takes us into the worlds of "two women living two centuries apart [who] each face 'a crisis of the soul' when their fates are tied to idealistic men" (Publishers Weekly).

查看更多 下一篇