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1 Απρ 2024 · In Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” a graveyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded narratives.
19 Απρ 2024 · The Cemetery of Untold Stories, by Julia Alvarez, falls within one of my favorite genres: magical realism. I loved the concept of a cemetery that doesn’t hold bodies, but rather contains all of the stories that people carry inside them that they’ve never told anyone before.
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Cemetery of Untold Stories is a novel about storytelling, and the way our own narratives and how we choose to pass them on define our legacy. We follow Alma, an acclaimed author nearing the end of her life, as she inherits an unwanted plot of land near her hometown in the Dominican Republic.
2 Απρ 2024 · Alma buys a plot of land in a working-class neighborhood in the Dominican Republic. Before she builds a casita to live in, she builds a cemetery for the stories. She burns the boxes—except for two that won’t catch fire—and inters them all.
27 Σεπ 2024 · Inheriting a plot of land in her home country of the Dominican Republic, Alma decides to build a cemetery — but not a traditional one. Instead of people being buried here, the land instead holds the graves of the stories she's been unable to finish over the years for one reason or another.
2 Απρ 2024 · The Cemetery of Untold Stories asks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories.
