by Jayne Anne Phillips · DUOMO EDICIONES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492723348
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«Alondra y termita» is the novel by Jayne Anne Phillips, published by Duomo ediciones in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
Set in West Virginia in 1959 and the Korean War in 1950, it tells the story of Alondra, a teenager who cares for her brother Termita, a boy with severe disabilities, while her aunt Nonie hides a secret. In parallel, soldier Leavitt fights at the front, and the poetic prose unites memory and family.
Originally published as 'Lark and Termite', translated by Gabriela Bustelo and Miguel Martínez-Lage. Finalist for the National Book Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger.
For readers of literary fiction who appreciate postwar and family stories with poetic, intense prose.
Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. She was a professor of English at Rutgers-Newark from 2005 to 2020 and helped establish the MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark.
