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Informationen zum Autor Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible and Demon Copperhead , as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Her work of narrative non-fiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and is the first author to win the Women's Prize twice. Barbara lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia. Klappentext Paperback edition of the latest novel from the bestselling and Orange Prize winning author. With a story that touches on class, poverty and climate change, it's set in the Appalachian Mountains. A big summer read for 2013, and Kingsolver will be coming to the UK to promote it. There will be a huge publicity campaign, with interviews, features and reviews across the media. 'Urgent issues demand important art. "Flight Behaviour" rises - with conscience and majesty - to the occasion of its time.' "Guardian" Vorwort Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change by the Pulitzer and Women's Prize winning author of The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible . Zusammenfassung On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year. Is this a miraculous message from God, or a spectacular sign of climate change. Entomology expert, Ovid Byron, certainly believes it is the latter.
