by Siri Hustvedt · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433974983
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«Elegía para un americano» is the contemporary fiction novel by Siri Hustvedt, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (392 pages, in Spanish).
After her father's funeral, psychoanalyst Erik Davidsen and his sister Inga, a writer, find a note dated 1937 hinting at a family tragedy perhaps kept silent. Their investigation leads them to reconstruct the memory of a Norwegian emigrant family, while each faces their own conflicts: Erik's loneliness after divorce and the harassment Inga suffers. A novel about memory, identity, and the stories we construct.
«Elegía para un americano» is volume 716 of the Panorama de narrativas collection, translated by Cecilia Ceriani. The novel's original title is The Sorrows of an American.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and novels of family mystery and psychological introspection.
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), Memories of the Future (2019), and Ghost Stories (2026). What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
