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Para Salvar al Mundo / Saving the World
By
Jesus Vega (trans) and
Julia Alvarez
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfaguara
Publication date
November 30, 2006
Pages
550
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781598205022
ISBN-10
1598205021
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.75 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.75 lbs.
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Out of Print
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$19.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
While writing her novel, Alma is sidetracked by the story of a much earlier idealist, Francisco Xavier Balmis, who in 1803 undertook the vaccination of the populations of Spain's American colonies against smallpox and who needed living 'carriers' of the vaccine so that it could survive the travel time across the ocean.
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from Alfaguara (November 30, 2006)
9781598205022 | details & prices | 550 pages | 5.75 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Suffering from writer's block, Alma finds herself enamored of a story she stumbles upon which involves Isabel, director of La Casa De Expâositos, who selected twenty-two orphan boys to be live carriers of the smallpox vaccine in 1803.
About: Suffering from writer's block, Alma finds herself enamored of a story she stumbles upon which involves Isabel, director of La Casa De Expâositos, who selected twenty-two orphan boys to be live carriers of the smallpox vaccine in 1803.
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