by Betty Smith · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467232981
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«Un árbol crece en Brooklyn» is Betty Smith's coming-of-age novel, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (496 pages, in Spanish).
Francie Nolan grows up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in the early decades of the twentieth century. The daughter of a poor family of Irish and Austrian origin, she finds refuge in reading, often on the fire escape under a tree, while her mother keeps the household going and her father struggles with alcohol.
Work originally published in 1943 as «A Tree Grows in Brooklyn»; this 2008 Spanish edition includes a translation by Rojas Clavell.
For readers of classics and coming-of-age novels, with an interest in immigrant life in 1920s Brooklyn.
Betty Smith was an American playwright and novelist, who wrote the 1943 bestseller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
