by Jane Smiley · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422644590
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«Heredarás la tierra» is the literary fiction novel by Jane Smiley, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (443 pages, in Spanish).
In 1979, farmer Larry Cook decides to divide his thousand acres of Iowa among his three daughters. Caroline, the youngest, questions the decision and is left out of the division; family grudges and secrets surface. The novel follows the fracture of the Cook family and the decline of the patriarch, in a rural drama that reinterprets «El rey Lear».
The work won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 and the National Book Critics Circle Award; it was originally published as «A Thousand Acres» in 1991. Translation by Iris Menéndez.
For readers of literary fiction and family dramas, and for book clubs seeking reinterpretations of «El rey Lear».
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
