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La Familia Lavette

Esta saga familiar narra el tumultuoso viaje de una familia de inmigrantes que lucha por forjar su identidad en la América de principios del siglo XX. A lo largo de varias generaciones, la historia explora temas de ambición, resiliencia y la búsqueda incesante del Sueño Americano. Ofrece un retrato crudo y profundamente humano de individuos que lidian con la adversidad y aspiran al éxito en una nueva tierra. La serie profundiza en las complejidades de los lazos familiares y la esperanza inquebrantable de un futuro mejor.

An Independent Woman
Die Tochter des Einwanderers
The legacy
The Establishment
Second Generation
Los inmigrantes

Orden recomendado de lectura

  1. Los inmigrantes

    • 348 páginas
    • 13 horas de lectura

    La novela cuenta la historia de Dan Lavette desde su niñez hasta su edad adulta. Es parte de una saga familiar. El relato comienza con el terremoto de San Francisco, donde Dan perdió a sus padres y se volvió rico de la noche a la mañana debido a que hizo una fortuna transportando gente en su lancha. Este hecho hace que en el futuro funde el Banco de Sonoma, uniendo sus fondos con su amigo italiano, que es banquero. Dan Lavette se convierte en un empresario exitoso en el área de los barcos.

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  2. Second Generation

    • 448 páginas
    • 16 horas de lectura

    Howard Fast, author of The Immigrants, has proven himself to be one of this country's most popular authors. This second volume about the fortunes of Dan Lavette, the young Italian who lost his parents but launched a stormy and brilliant career as a result of the great San Francisco earthquake, encompasses an even more dramatic sweep of history from the depression years to the close of World War II. It is the rare novelist who can create a world with such empathy and passion that the listener actually comes to share the loves and emotions of its characters.

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  3. In The Establishment, Howard Fast pulls the listener into the turbulent and passionate lives of the Dan Lavette family story begun in The Immigrants and continued in Second Generation. Howard Fast again brings to life a cast of characters whose lives become a portrait of their time. Listeners will witness the events in the lives of the children of Dan Lavette: Follow daughter Barbara Lavette, a strong and magnetic personality, from tragedy to final fulfillment; observe the elder son, Tom, as he quests for and finally succumbs to his own unscrupulous drive for power; and feel the conflict as the younger son, Joe, struggles between dedication to his medical work to the poor and having no emotional strength left for his beautiful wife left alone.

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  4. The Legacy continues the saga of the Lavette family begun in these bestsellers: The Immigrants, Second Generation, and The Establishment. This fourth-in-series story takes place during the turbulent 1960's as Barbara Lavette and her family are embroiled in the issues of that decade: Civil Rights, Israel's Six-Day War, the Nixon years, Vietnam and riots in the street. Barbara Lavette develops into a powerful, strong willed, capable person while the children of the third generation of Lavettes take their place in society and stand by their own ideals and values. The Legacy will capture listeners with its involving story and leave them wanting more

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  5. An Independent Woman

    • 372 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura

    In this sixth novel of the Immigrants series, matriarch Barbara Lavette continues to surprise family and friends as she fights for justice and finds love again.

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