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Refugee is a young adult literature novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2019. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: early Nazi Germany , 1980s Cuba , and modern-day Syria .
Isabel Angelica Allende Llona (Latin American Spanish: [isaˈβel aˈʝende] ⓘ; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American [6] [7] writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially ...
Bestselling author Isabel Allende spoke about the current "anti-immigrant" sentiment, book bans, women's rights, Latin America and what is left for her to write, in a wide-ranging interview with ...
Isabel Fernandez, fictional character in the book Refugee; Isabelle Lightwood, fictional character in The Mortal Instruments series and Shadowhunters TV series based on the novel. Isabelle Palmer, American Girl character; Isabelle Tyler, a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400
Told through fictional characters in the context of real historical events, [2] [3] the story takes place partly during the Spanish Civil War and partly in Chile where the protagonists again witness the fight between freedom and repression. [4] A Long Petal of the Sea became the most popular book in Spain between April 2019 and April 2020. [5]
Esteban Trueba is the central male character of the novel and is one of the story's main narrators along with his granddaughter Alba. In his youth, he seeks the mermaid-like and green-haired Rosa the Beautiful, daughter of Severo and Nívea del Valle, toiling in the mines to earn a suitable fortune so that he can support her.
Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an African-American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. [1]
Isabel Allende says "of her female protagonist in Daughter of Fortune, Eliza, that she might well represent who the author might have been in another life." [ 2 ] "Allende spent seven years of research on this, her fifth novel, which she says is a story of a young woman's search for self-knowledge."