by Barbara Kingsolver · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571252664
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«The Lacuna» is the historical novel by Barbara Kingsolver, published by Faber and Faber in 2010 in paperback (688 pages, in English).
Harrison Shepherd, born in the United States and raised in Mexico, becomes an assistant in the house of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and later works for Lev Trotsky in exile. His life becomes tied to art, politics and the convulsive changes of the twentieth century, as he tries to find his identity between two countries and two worlds.
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010. The novel is set between Mexico in the 1930s and the United States during the Second World War.
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative interested in the Mexico of Rivera and Kahlo, Trotsky's exile and the political tensions of the twentieth century.
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo; and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.
