by Susan Sontag · B Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466312400
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«En América» is the novel by Susan Sontag, published by B Ediciones in hardcover (493 pages, in Spanish).
Maryna Zalezowska, a Polish actress, emigrates to the United States in 1876 with her husband, her son, a young writer who admires her and several friends, with the idea of founding a utopian community in California. When the commune dissolves, Maryna decides to stay in the country and, transformed into Marina Zalenska, builds a new theatrical career that leads her to be compared with the French diva Sara Bernhardt.
Translation by Jordi Fibla. The cover of this edition notes the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters 2003; the work won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2000. The original title is In America.
May appeal to reading clubs and fans of historical and literary fiction, especially those seeking stories of emigration and personal reinvention.
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999).
