by Joyce Carol Oates · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007305766
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«My Sister, My Love» is the psychological suspense novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (592 pages, in English).
Novel inspired by the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey. A six-year-old girl, an ice-skating prodigy, is found murdered in the boiler room of her home; her brother, the narrator, reconstructs how the family and their surroundings fall apart amid suspicion, secrets and media harassment, in a ferocious satire of the obsession with fame.
Work originally published in 2008; winner of the Grand prix de l'héroïne Madame Figaro (foreign novel) in 2011.
For readers of true crime and crime fiction looking for a novel inspired by a real case, with a biting portrait of family life.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
