by Janet Frame · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432228391
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An Angel at My Table is an autobiography by New Zealand writer Janet Frame, which narrates her childhood in New Zealand, marked by poverty and tragedy, and her subsequent experience in psychiatric hospitals, where she was wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia. About to undergo a lobotomy, Frame won a literary prize that allowed her to avoid the operation. This work is a celebration of the power of imagination and a testimony to a woman's struggle to survive her inner world.
Janet Paterson Frame was a New Zealand author. She is internationally renowned for her work, which includes novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour.
