by Anne Tyler · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420470429
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«Propios y extraños» is the contemporary novel by Anne Tyler, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
The Yazdans, of Iranian origin, and the Donaldsons, Americans, meet at the airport when they go to pick up their adopted daughters from Korea. A friendship grows between the two families around the girls, and the novel addresses adoption, cultural identity, and the sense of belonging in a diverse society.
The original title is «Digging to America» (2006); this Spanish edition features a translation by Gemma Rovira.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories of family, adoption, and cultural encounter.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
