by Carol Shields · HARPERCOLLINS UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007666249
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«Unless» is the contemporary novel by Carol Shields, published by HarperCollins UK in paperback (213 pages, in English).
Reta Winters, writer and translator, sees her life disrupted when her eldest daughter, Norah, drops out of university and becomes a mute beggar on a Toronto street corner. Through this crisis, Carol Shields reflects on motherhood, feminism and the power of language, and champions the beauty of ordinary life.
Originally published in 2002, it was nominated for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Orange Prize and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
With its focus on family and the female inner world, it is suitable for book clubs and readers of contemporary literary fiction.
Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
