by Carol Shields · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422663997
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«La memoria de las piedras» is the novel by Carol Shields, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (360 pages, in Spanish).
The novel traces the life of Daisy Goodwill from before birth to after death. Orphaned of her mother at birth, she grows up with her father, a stonecutter, and marries twice; from that existence, Carol Shields builds a reflection on identity, memory, and the passage of time.
Translation by Jordi Fibla. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1995) and the National Book Critics Circle Award (1994).
For readers of literary fiction interested in Canadian narrative and portraits of women's lives, as well as for book clubs.
Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
