by Joyce Carol Oates · Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788804606420
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«Uccellino del paradiso» is the mystery novel by Joyce Carol Oates published by Mondadori in hardcover (494 pages, in Italian).
In 1983, the murder of Zoe Kruller in Sparta (New York) changes the lives of two families. Eddy Diehl, the victim's lover, becomes the main suspect. Krista, Eddy Diehl's daughter, believes in his innocence; Aaron, Zoe Kruller's son, grows up marked by the loss. The novel follows the bond that forms between Krista and Aaron.
The Italian translation is by Giuseppe Costigliola; the English original, Little Bird of Heaven, was published in 2007, and the work was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 2011.
For those seeking psychological crime fiction and literary fiction centered on grief, memory and family wounds.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
