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  1. Jan 3, 1984 · Stones for Ibarra. Harriet Doerr. 4.00. 4,228 ratings389 reviews. Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under forty, have come to the small Mexican village of Ibarra to reopen a copper mine abandoned by Richard's grandfather fifty years before.

  2. About Stones for Ibarra. Winner of the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction “A very good novel indeed, with echoes of Gabriel García Márquez, Katherine Anne Porter, and even Graham Greene.”–The New York Times

  3. Jan 8, 1985 · 4.3 223 ratings. Part of: Contemporary American Fiction (14 books) See all formats and editions. Winner of the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction. "A very good novel indeed, with echoes of Gabriel García Márquez, Katherine Anne Porter, and even Graham Greene."--The New York Times.

  4. Stones for Ibarra. by. Doerr, Harriet. Publication date. 1986. Topics. Married people, Americans, Villages. Publisher. New York : Penguin Books.

  5. The two Americans, the only foreigners in Ibarra, live among people who both respect and misunderstand them. And gradually the villagers--at first enigmas to the Evertons--come to teach them much...

  6. The two Americans, Ibarra's only foreigners, live out the promised span among people who respect and misunderstand them, in a place where myth is at war...

  7. Doerr’s first novel, Stones for Ibarra, won the 1984 National Book Award for First Work of Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the Godal Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Harold D. Vursell Award.