by Annie Proulx · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253117377
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At the end of the 19th century, a Sicilian arrives in New Orleans accompanied by his son and a magnificent accordion of his own making. Passing from hand to hand, the instrument becomes the hero of the book, accompanying the adventures and tribulations of immigrants from the melting pot: Germans from the Midwest, Poles from Chicago, Norwegians from Minnesota. All these humble people, these European wretches won over by the dream of the New World, whose descendants, gradually forgetting their roots, form the America of today, are the characters of a grand, epic novel. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx tells us the real America with a vigor and power worthy of Steinbeck or Dos Passos.
