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The Lacuna : a novel [ang.]

Autor: Kingsolver, Barbara

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Born in the US, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to his social-climbing mother, Salome. From a coastal island jungle to the unpaved neighbourhoods of 1930s Mexico City, his fortunes never steady as Salome finds her rich men-friends always on the losing side of the Mexican Revolution. He aims for invisibility, observing his world and recording everything with a peculiar selfless irony in his notebooks. Life is whatever he learns from

servants putting him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Making himself useful in the household of the muralist, his wife Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot in with art and revolution. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. In Carolina, he remakes himself in America`s hopeful image. Under the watch of his peerless stenographer, Violet Brown, he finds an extraordinary use for his talents of observation. But political winds continue to push him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption.

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Kingsolver, Barbara

Urodzona: 8 kwietnia 1955 Amerykańska pisarka, poetka i eseistka, z wykształcenia biolog studiowała na uniwersytetach DePauw i Arizona. Zdobywczyni wielu nagród literackich m.in. The Orange Prize 2010, National Book Prize of South Africa, nominowana do Nagrody Pulitzera i PEN/Faulkner Award. Członkini zespołu Rock Bottom Remainders, który zakładała wspólnie z Amy Tan i Stephenem Kingiem. Autorka licznych esejów, opowiadań, wierszy oraz ośmiu powieści, m.in. Biblii jadowitego drzewa, Lata namiętności, Odysei i Lotu motyla. Amerykański magazyn „Writer’s Digest” uznał ją [>>] za jedną z najważniejszych pisarek XX wieku. W 2010 roku prezydent Bill Clinton wyróżnił Kingsolver prestiżowym medalem National Humanites, najwyższym amerykańskim odznaczeniem za osiągnięcia na polu sztuki i literatury.

Źródło: https://lubimyczytac.pl/autor/16253/barbara-kingsolver

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