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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 Kingsolver's first novel in ten years, which follows the life of a fictional Mexican American novelist from the early 20th century to the 1950s. Takes in true events, such as the lives of Frida Kahlo, Diega Rivera and Lev Tolstoy, plus the WWII and the McCarthy era. Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible" has been voted the UK's number one reading group book, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. '"The Lacuna" is a fascinating, compelling book' Kate Atkinson Vorwort The Women's Prize-winning novel, The Lacuna, from Barbara Kingsolver, the global bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible . Zusammenfassung Tells the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy.
