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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Alma Huebner, a Latin American novelist, is working on another of her best-selling family sagas when she's sidetracked by the story of an earlier idealist, Francisco Xavier Balmis, who undertook to vaccinate the population of Spain's American colonies, which were devastated by smallpox. To do this, live 'carriers' are required. Selection of these boys falls to Isabel Gomez y Cendala. Isabel's bravery inspires a very different novel from Alma. 'Saving...
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