by David Vann · Random House · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439726562
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«Tierra» is the novel by David Vann, published by Random House in hardcover (256 pages, in Spanish).
Set in California, the novel follows Galen, a twenty-two-year-old young man who lives with his mother in the family home while his grandmother loses her memory. A dispute over an inheritance brings his aunt and cousin back into their lives, and accumulated grudges and secrets turn cohabitation into a climate of violence and fatality.
Translation by Luis Murillo Fort. Original title: Dirt. Hardcover edition without dust jacket, published in 2013.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction interested in dark-toned family stories.
David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for The New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!.
