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Promise (Promesa) Spanish Edition - by Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Paperback)

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  • La primera novela de Rachel Eliza Griffiths: un canto a la memoria, el amor y la supervivencia en el seno de una familia afroamericana, escrita con la sensibilidad y la dureza con que se rompe y se recompone un corazón.
  • About the Author: Rachel Eliza Griffiths (1978, Washington D.C) es poeta, artista visual y novelista.
  • 368 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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La primera novela de Rachel Eliza Griffiths: un canto a la memoria, el amor y la supervivencia en el seno de una familia afroamericana, escrita con la sensibilidad y la dureza con que se rompe y se recompone un corazón.

La infancia de las hermanas Cinthy y Ezra Kindred ha transcurrido rodeada de amor. Han visto crecer su universo al amparo de sus padres y de los Junkett, con quienes integran la escasa comunidad negra de Salt Point, una pequeña población pesquera de Maine. Pero al finalizar el verano y tras regresar a clase, las hermanas son recibidas con hostilidad. Incluso Ruby, la mejor amiga de Ezra, parece participar en la oleada de racismo que revelará las verdaderas dimensiones del abismo sobre el que el mundo de las hermanas se sustenta.

Descubrir los prejuicios raciales de su apacible comunidad será para las hermanas Kindred como presenciar el final de un sueño y el inicio de una pesadilla, pero les proporcionará también el material con el que levantar un refugio capaz de proteger a su familia y de resistir las amenazas del mundo exterior. Estamos en 1957, y allá fuera, como un rumor latente que sobrevuela las ciudades, los ecos del Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles auguran un cambio.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the Civil Rights Movement sweeps the nation in Promise a "magical, magnificent novel" (Marlon James) from "a startlingly fresh voice" (Jacqueline Woodson).

A KIRKUS REVIEWS AND CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

The people of Salt Point could indeed be fearful about the world beyond themselves; most of them would be born and die without ever having gone more than twenty or thirty miles from houses that were crammed with generations of their families. . . . But something was shifting at the end of summer 1957.

The Kindred sisters--Ezra and Cinthy--have grown up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful Maine village perched high up on coastal bluffs.

But as the girls hit adolescence, their white neighbors, including Ezra's best friend, Ruby, start to see their maturing bodies and minds in a different way. And as the news from distant parts of the country fills with calls for freedom, equality, and justice for Black Americans, the white villagers of Salt Point begin to view the Kindreds and the Junketts as threats to their way of life. Amid escalating violence, prejudice, and fear, bold Ezra and watchful Cinthy must reach deep inside the wells of love they've built to commit great acts of heroism and grace on the path to survival.

In luminous, richly descriptive writing, Promise celebrates one family's story of resistance. It's a book that will break your heart--and then rebuild it with courage, hope, and love.



Review Quotes




La crítica ha dicho:
«La conmovedora novela debut de la poeta Griffiths describe el insidioso alcance del racismo en la era de Jim Crow [...]. Apuntala el rabioso orgullo de una familia, su alegría ganada con mucho esfuerzo».
Publishers Weekly

«Una luminosa historia de llegada a la madurez ambientada en el Maine de los años cincuenta [...]. Griffiths es alguien a quien he deseado leer una y otra vez».
Harper's Bazaar

«Un magnífico y estremecedor relato del racismo que una familia negra en el Maine de los años cincuenta se ve obligada a soportar, así como del amor y la fuerza que los sostienen [...]. Un impresionante y evocador retrato del amor, el orgullo y la supervivencia».
Kirkus Reviews

«La primera novela de Griffiths, un desgarrador relato sobre cómo el racismo alcanza con su largo brazo todos los rincones de la vida estadounidense, también rinde homenaje al amor acunado en el seno de las familias negras y a cómo este les otorga fuerza interior y capacidad de rebelarse».
Historical Novel Society




About the Author



Rachel Eliza Griffiths (1978, Washington D.C) es poeta, artista visual y novelista. Ha recibido el Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award y el Paterson Poetry Prize, y fue finalista del NAACP Image Award. Griffiths ha sido becada por la Fundación Cave Canem, Kimbilio, el Centro de Bellas Artes de Provincetown, la Fundación Robert Rauschenberg y Yaddo. Su obra ha aparecido en The New York Times, The New Yorker y Tin House, entre otras publicaciones. Promesa es su primera novela.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.7 Inches (H) x 5.3 Inches (W) x 1.1 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.05 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 368
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Format: Paperback
Author: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Language: Spanish
Street Date: May 20, 2025
TCIN: 1004579851
UPC: 9788439744788
Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-0056
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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