by Eudora Welty · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415130000
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«Las batallas perdidas» is the novel by Eudora Welty, published by Impedimenta in paperback (584 pages, in Spanish).
The novel brings together three generations of the Vaughn family at their old house in Mississippi, during the Depression, to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of Granny Vaughn. The favorite grandson, Jack Renfro, escapes from jail so as not to miss the celebration. Family secrets, memories of the past and a sharp comic vein weave a fresco of a rural Southern lineage determined to disappear.
The book belongs to the Impedimenta collection (number 39), in a translation by Miguel Martínez-Lage, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The cover features the work's original title: Losing Battles.
Recommended for readers of Southern fiction and classic literary fiction who appreciate choral stories, family memory and bittersweet humor in a Spanish edition of an American classic.
Eudora Alice Welty was an American short-story writer, novelist, and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi, has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.
