by Anne Tyler · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099507420
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«Digging to America» is Anne Tyler's contemporary fiction novel, published by Vintage in paperback (291 pages, in English).
Two families —the Donaldsons, American, and the Yazdans, of Iranian origin— adopt two Korean baby girls on the same day. Their lives become intertwined, and every year they celebrate the anniversary of that arrival. The novel explores identity, assimilation, and the desire to belong, with Maryam, the Iranian grandmother who never quite feels she belongs anywhere.
Originally published in 2006, it was nominated for the Orange Prize in 2007 and the Dublin Literary Award in 2008.
Aimed at book clubs and readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in family and identity.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
