by William Saroyan · Ediciones Palabra, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788413685007
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The Human Comedy is a moving autobiographical novel by William Saroyan that tells the story of Homer Macauley, a young man in charge of delivering telegrams in Ithaca, California, during World War II. Through the messages that travel kilometers, Homer faces reality and illusion, experiencing the purest human emotions in a community marked by war. This captivating work shows us the growth of a child in a world that, despite the conflict, feels sweeter and more habitable than ours.
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy.
