by Gore Vidal · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439703068
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«La Institución Smithsoniana» is the historical fiction novel by Gore Vidal, published by Random House in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
On Good Friday 1939, a young mathematical prodigy is summoned to the Smithsonian Institution, where the atomic bomb is being secretly prepared. Gore Vidal interweaves historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Charles Lindbergh and Albert Einstein in a plot that unites American history, quantum physics, political responsibility and sacrifice.
Published in 1999, it is a translation by Jaime Zulaika of the English original «The Smithsonian Institution».
For readers of historical fiction and suspense who appreciate Gore Vidal's wit and irony.
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives, and later in 1982 to the United States Senate.
