Maya's Notebook
- Type Paperback
- Publisher HARPER COLLINS
- Author/s Allende, Isabel
- ISBN13 9780007546350
- ISBN10 0007546351
- Pages 400
- Published 2013
- Language English
Sections
English LiteratureMaya's Notebook
The narrator and protagonist of ‘Maya’s Notebook’ is a 19 year-old-girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls into a life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save her from the criminal types pursuing her, Maya’s Chilean grandmother sends her to a remote island off the southern coast of Chile. Here she lives among a traditional rural people, the Chilote, who speak an older form of Spanish and have remained largely isolated from the materialism, crime, and fast-paced contemporary life which is our own. The book alternates between the narrative in the US and that on Chiloe, the island, with the two strands of the story unfolding at the same time. This new book is very different from Isabel’s previous historical novels: a contemporary setting; an American (of Latino descent) teenage drug addict as the protagonist and narrating voice; a realistic style of writing rather than a magical realistic one (Chiloe exists, and one can visit it). Maya’s voice is modeled on that of Isabel’s teenage granddaughter, a native of the Bay area (San Francisco, Berkeley). - See more at: http://www.4thestate.co.uk/publication/mayas-notebook/#sthash.0oYilF37.dpuf
- Type Paperback
- Publisher HARPER COLLINS
- Author/s Allende, Isabel
- ISBN13 9780007546350
- ISBN10 0007546351
- Pages 400
- Published 2013
- Language English