Esta novela romántica y sensual narra la historia de cuatro generaciones de los Salvatierra que vivieron en Cuba entre 1868 y 1936. Los nacimientos y las muertes, los amores y los desamores, se funden con los hechos históricos de una tierra exuberante de gran diversidad racial. Con un estilo sencillo que evoca con la misma maestría el sabor del Caribe y los sentimientos de los protagonistas la autora funde la realidad política (la lucha del pueblo cubano por su independencia, la influencia de Estados Unidos) con la vida social y cotidiana de unos personajes imposibles de olvidar.
Dr. Ada was the founder and First Editor in Chief of : NABE, Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education
She has been active for many years in various professional associations including : IRA, International Reading Association CRA, California Reading Association CABE, California Association for Bilingual Education USIBBY, US Branch of the International Board of Books for Young People
She is a member of : Advisory Board of Loose Leaf Public Radio Programs National Television Workshop Between the Lines Reading Up!, Natural Head Start Association
A frequent speaker at national and international conferences, Dr. Ada also works in school districts with children, teachers and parents.
The award-winning author of numerous children’s books and a prolific translator, Alma Flor Ada is a leading mentor and philosopher of bilingual education in the United States.
She has authored several reading programs, among them two Spanish reading programs : Cielo abierto (K-6) Vamos de fiesta! (K-3)
and of two English reading programs : Signatures (K-6) Collections (K- 6)
and is a series consultant for Relatos de la historia (1-5), a Spanish social studies program developed by Harcourt School Publishers.
Among her most substantive contributions to the transmission of Hispanic culture to children are : Música amiga, a program for learning through songs, published by Del Sol Books Puertas al Sol - Pathways to the Sun, published by Santillana Latino poetry, Art, and Biographies for children, published by Santillana
Dr. Ada received her Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Lima, Perú and did post-doctoral research at Harvard University as a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute and a Fulbright Research Scholar.