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La Hija del Sepulturero / The Gravedigger's Daughter
Contributor(s): Oates, Joyce Carol (Author)
ISBN: 6073173962     ISBN-13: 9786073173964
Publisher: Debolsillo
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback
Language: Spanish
Published: May 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction
Dewey: 813.54
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 4.9" W x 7.4" (0.95 lbs) 688 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
«No hay tema literario que sea ajeno a la voracidad de Joyce Carol Oates, a su habilidad narrativa, al ritmo que sabe imprimir a cada relato .- La Vanguardia

En 1936, los Schwart, una familia de inmigrantes desesperada por escapar de la Alemanianazi, se instala en una peque a ciudad en el interior del Estado de Nueva York.

El padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al nico trabajo al que tiene acceso: sepulturero y vigilante de cementerio. Los prejuicios locales y la debilidad emocional de los Schwart suscitan una terrible tragedia familiar. Rebecca, la hija del sepulturero, comienza entonces su sorprendente peregrinaci n por la «Am rica profunda , una odisea deriesgo er tico e intr pida imaginaci n que la obligar a reinventarse.


ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into the heart of America, an odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweet--but very American--triumph.