by Michael Chabon · Picador USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312282998
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«The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay» is the historical novel by Michael Chabon, published by Picador USA in paperback (639 pages, in English).
Set in New York and Prague, it follows Joe Kavalier, a young artist and escape artist who flees Nazi-occupied Prague, and his cousin Sammy Clay, who seeks a partner to create comics. Together they invent superheroes like The Escapist and Luna Moth during the golden age of American comics, while their lives intertwine with Rosa Saks.
The work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 and the California Book Award in 2000, and was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
For readers of historical and literary fiction, especially those interested in the golden age of comics and American Jewish identity.
Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.
