by Alice Sebold · Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439721024
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«Casi la luna» is the contemporary novel by Alice Sebold, published by Mondadori in hardcover in 2008 (280 pages, in Spanish).
Helen Knightly has devoted her life to caring for her sick mother and her family. When a fatal event precipitates everything, in twenty-four hours her tyrannical mother, her loving but absent father, her solicitous ex-husband and her daughters pass before her. The novel explores filial piety and the vertigo of unexpected freedom.
Novel originally published in English as «The Almost Moon» in 2007. This Spanish edition includes the translation by Silvia Pons Pradilla.
For readers of contemporary fiction and book clubs interested in intense portraits of family relationships.
Alice Sebold is an American author. She is known for her novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and a memoir, Lucky. The Lovely Bones was on The New York Times Best Seller list and was adapted into a film by the same name in 2009.
