Karla Cornejo Villavicencio


Catalina

Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla | CATALINA


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780593449110

En komplex berättelse om en ung kvinnas kamp för identitet och tillhörighet på Harvard, präglad av hennes bakgrund och drömmar.

  • En unik coming-of-age-berättelse med djup och komplexitet.

  • Följ Catalina i hennes kamp mellan drömmar och verklighet.

  • Utgiven som pocket, 2025.

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Random House US
ISBN: 9780593449110

Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2025-05-13

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When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school’s elite subcultures—internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies—which she observes with the eye of an anthropologist and an interloper’s skepticism: she is both fascinated and repulsed. Craving a great romance, Catalina finds herself drawn to a fellow student, an actual budding anthropologist eager to teach her about the Latin American world she was born into but never knew, even as her life back in Queens begins to unravel. And every day, the clock ticks closer to the abyss of life after graduation. Can she save her family? Can she save herself? What does it mean to be saved? Brash and daring, part campus novel, part hagiography, part pop song, Catalina is unlike any coming-of-age novel you’ve ever read—and Catalina, bright and tragic, circled by a nimbus of chaotic energy, driven by a wild heart, is a character you will never forget.

When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school’s elite subcultures—internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies—which she observes with the eye of an anthropologist and an interloper’s skepticism: she is both fascinated and repulsed. Craving a great romance, Catalina finds herself drawn to a fellow student, an actual budding anthropologist eager to teach her about the Latin American world she was born into but never knew, even as her life back in Queens begins to unravel. And every day, the clock ticks closer to the abyss of life after graduation. Can she save her family? Can she save herself? What does it mean to be saved? Brash and daring, part campus novel, part hagiography, part pop song, Catalina is unlike any coming-of-age novel you’ve ever read—and Catalina, bright and tragic, circled by a nimbus of chaotic energy, driven by a wild heart, is a character you will never forget.


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Boken 'Catalina' av Karla Cornejo Villavicencio handlar om en ung kvinna som kämpar med sin identitet och tillhörighet efter att ha blivit antagen till Harvard, där hon navigerar livet med sina papperslösa morföräldrar i Queens.

'Catalina' riktar sig främst till unga vuxna och läsare som är intresserade av teman som identitet, tillhörighet och utmaningarna för papperslösa individer i dagens samhälle.

Det specifika exemplaret av 'Catalina' är en ny pocketutgåva publicerad av Random House US den 13 maj 2025.

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