by Katherine Paterson · Espasa-Calpe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423928163
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«La búsqueda de Park» is the young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (201 pages, in Spanish).
Park travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn more about his father, who died in the Vietnam War. What he discovers there transforms his idea of his family and of himself, in a story about identity, grief, and the need to know the truth.
Original title: Park's Quest, originally published in English in 1988. Austral Juvenil collection, with illustrations by Shula Goldman.
Novel intended for readers aged 11 to 15 interested in realistic stories about family and memory.
Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
