by Paula Fox · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070347827
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«La légende d'une servante» is the novel by Paula Fox, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback format (499 pages, in French).
Luisa de la Cueva is born in Malagita, a Caribbean village, daughter of a landowner and an indigenous servant. Her father, fearing a revolution, moves the family to New York, where they eke out a living in basements. Marked by loss, Luisa clings to the dream of returning to Malagita; the novel explores fear, family, and nostalgia.
This French edition, translated by Marie-Hélène Dumas and with a foreword by Melanie Rehak, corresponds to the original novel «A Servant's Tale» (1984).
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories about emigration, loss of status, and memory.
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
