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Latina novelist Alma Huebner begs off joining her husband on a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic to work on her next book, and finds herself becoming obsessed with the life of her subject--a woman who hand-picked a group of orphan boys to serve as live carriers of the small pox virus in order to provide Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis a ready supply of vaccine with which to inoculate the populations of Spain's American colonies in 1803....
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Alfaguara
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2006
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Español
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Alma, una novelista, está sufriendo del síndrome de la página en blanco y sigue retrasada con su nueva novela. Sin embargo, su novela se desvía aún más cuando descubre la historia de un idealista, Francisco Xavier Balmis, quien en 1803 emprendió una campaña para vacunar a las poblaciones de las colonias españolas en América contra la viruela. Para hacer esto, Balmis necesitaba "portadores" vivos de la vacuna. De mayor interés para Alma...
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