by Sinclair Lewis · ORBIS: PREMIO NOBEL · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475304236
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«Este inmenso mundo» is the novel by Sinclair Lewis, published by Orbis in hardcover (238 pages, in Spanish).
In a rural Minnesota setting, Clara, a cultured woman, marries the farmer Olaf and discovers that her new life is marked by monotony and isolation. The novel portrays her effort to preserve her individuality and aspirations against social expectations that suffocate her, and reflects on marriage and the search for happiness.
Novel number 64 in the «Los Premios Nobel» collection from Ediciones Orbis, with a translation by Rafael Vázquez Zamora. Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930.
For readers interested in classic American fiction and in the works of Nobel Prize winners in literature.
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
