by Joyce Carol Oates · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420474236
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In 1936, the Schwart family, immigrants fleeing Nazi Germany, settles in a small town in the United States. The father, a teacher, is relegated to the only job available: gravedigger and cemetery watchman. Local prejudices and the Schwarts' vulnerability trigger a family tragedy. Rebecca, the gravedigger's daughter, embarks on a surprising journey through deep America, an odyssey of erotic risk and bold imagination that forces her to reinvent herself. Joyce Carol Oates creates a masterpiece of mythical and domestic realism, exceptionally emotional and provocative, an intimate testimony of individual resistance. In this novel, violence illuminates a culture and an era.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
