The Lacuna
The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in World War II. In the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina he remakes himself in America's hopeful image. But politica…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-571-25266-4
- EAN: 9780571252664
- Produktnummer: 5355941
- Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 670 S.
- Masse: H18.0 cm x B11.3 cm x D5.0 cm 380 g
- Gewicht: 380
Über den Autor
Barbara Kingsolver's fourteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the novels the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible, which is now considered a modern classic and was chosen as the best reading group novel ever at the Penguin/Orange Awards, and The Lacuna, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010. Her latest novel is Flight Behaviour.
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