by Siri Hustvedt · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467236064
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«Elegía para un americano» is the contemporary fiction novel by Siri Hustvedt, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (356 pages, in Spanish).
After their father's funeral, Erik Davidsen and his sister Inga find a note from 1937 alluding to a family tragedy. Erik is a psychoanalyst and Inga a writer; as they reconstruct the story of their Norwegian emigrant ancestors, they face their own conflicts: the loneliness of a divorce and the harassment of a vengeful journalist.
The novel's original English title is The Sorrows of an American; the translation is by Cecilia Ceriani. The work was originally published in 2008.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking intimate novels about family, memory and identity.
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.
