• Binding Paperback
  • 573 pages
  • Type Chapter Book

El gran sueño

El gran sueño

  • Ages 14+
  • Grades 9–12
  • Fiction or nonfiction Fiction
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Español

El gran sueño

Primavera de 1881. Cientos de inmigrantes que aspiran a una nueva vida y a un futuro mejor se embarcan en el Odisea, un barco que parte de Barcelona a Nueva York. En esta travesía, las vidas de cinco jóvenes se vincularán entre sí y esto determinará sus caminos en aquella gran ciudad. Jordi recrea el Nueva York de 1881, con escenarios reales, personajes y datos verídicos y construcciones de la época que enmarcan este apasionante viaje.

English

The Great Dream

Spring of 1881. On the Odisea, a ship leaving Barcelona for New York, Alberto, a boy without family or money, sneaks in as a stowaway. Among the third class passengers, who travel in deplorable conditions, is a couple of ruined small merchants, who aspire to a new life, Joaquina and Ventura, with their two teenage daughters: Leonor and Mercedes. With the same intention, and fleeing from justice, Ricardo travels with his wife, Concepción, and his son Gerardo. Another passenger, Narciso Redolat, wants to meet Enriqueta, the only daughter of a prosperous Catalan textile merchant whom he has married by proxy. They all emigrate to North America with the prospect of finding a better future. During the journey, friendships, rivalries, loves... will arise. But in New York it is very difficult to survive without money and dreams seem more and more distant.

Details and credits

Author & illustrator Spanish book type, author and illustrator
Spanish book type
Authentic
Author
Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Author origin
Spain
Illustrator
N/A
Illustrator origin
N/A
Book details Type, binding, genre, fiction or nonfiction and more
Type
Chapter Book
Binding
Paperback
Genre
Historical Fiction
Fiction or nonfiction
Fiction
Subject
Family
Pages
573
Dimensions
5.31 x .91 x 8.27 (Inches)
Reader fit Ages and grades
Ages
14+
Grades
Grade 9-12
Publication details ISBN, publisher and copyright
ISBN
9786070140778
Publisher
Santillana
Copyright
2014