Isla de leones (Lion Island)
El guerrero cubano de las palabras
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2019
Summary
La traducción al español de esta novela en verso “bellamente escrita y estimulante” de la galardonada autora Margarita Engle, que cuenta la historia de Antonio Chuffat, un joven de ascendencia africana, china y cubana que se convierte en un campeón de los derechos civiles.
Asia, África, Europa: los ancestros de Antonio chocaron y se mezclaron en la hermosa isla de Cuba. El país lucha por independizarse de España. Los esclavos africanos y los chinos bajo servidumbre por endeudamiento s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781534429284 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 153442928X |
| Author: | Margarita Engle, Alexis Romay |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 132g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 130mm x 194mm |
| Audience Age: | 10-99 |
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Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima’s Rebellion; Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; The Lightning Dreamer; and Wild Dreamers, a Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor book. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl.
Alexis Romay is the author of two novels and two books of poetry. His essays and opinion pieces have been published by NBC News, World Literature Today, Museum of Modern Art, El Nuevo Herald, Latino Rebels, Hypermedia Magazine, Replicante, Letras Libres, and other outlets. He has written lyrics for Paquito D’Rivera and translated over forty picture books, as well as novels by Ana Veciana-Suarez, Margarita Engle, Miguel Correa Mujica, Meg Medina, Stuart Gibbs, and Adrianna Cuevas. He lives in New Jersey with his family.
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