by Kate Atkinson · Plaza Y Janes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401328572
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«Una historia singular» is the contemporary fiction novel by Kate Atkinson, published by Plaza y Janés in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Effie, a student in Dundee in the early seventies, and her mother, Nora, during a winter stay on an island in the Hebrides. Amid stories they tell each other, Effie tries to uncover the truth about her family and origins, in a plot with humor, wordplay and metafictional nods.
The original work, Emotionally Weird, was published in 2000; this Spanish edition appeared in 2001.
For readers of contemporary and literary fiction who appreciate British humor and stories with narrative games.
Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots. Her debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award, the precursor to the Costa Book Award, in 1995. The novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Book Award for novel in 2013 and 2015. She is also known for the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series, Case Histories.
