by Edith Wharton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497932561
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«La Renuncia» is the novel by Edith Wharton published by DeBolsillo in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Kate, a woman from New York's high bourgeoisie, lives in retirement on the French Riviera after having fled with her lover and abandoned her family. When her daughter Anne, now an adult, demands her presence, the reunion forces her to confront social conventions and the decisions that shaped her life.
It belongs to Debolsillo's Contemporánea collection. Spanish translation by Ana Eiroa Guillén. The original novel, The Mother's Recompense, was published in 1925.
A work for those interested in classic early 20th-century narrative and in portraits of high society and the dilemmas of female characters.
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Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
