by Jane Smiley · tapa dura · ISBN 9783100744142
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«Tausend Morgen» is the novel by Jane Smiley, published by S. Fischer in hardcover (461 pages, in German).
Set on a farm in Iowa, the novel follows Ginny and Rose when Laurence Cook, their father, decides to give them his land during his lifetime to avoid inheritance taxes. What seems like a gesture of generosity uncovers tensions, abuses, and buried secrets, and forces the sisters to confront their past.
Translation by Hannah Harders of the English original A Thousand Acres; German edition published in 1992 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Suitable for book clubs and for those who enjoy contemporary fiction with a rural setting and family conflicts.
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
