La Hija del Sepulturero

Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Late of Brown University)

La Hija del Sepulturero
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Country
United States
Published
1 February 2009
Pages
682
ISBN
9788466323239

La Hija del Sepulturero

Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Late of Brown University)

En 1936, los Schwart, una familia de inmigrantes desesperada por escapar de la Alemania nazi, se instala en una pequena ciudad de Estados Unidos. El padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al unico 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 peregrinacion por la America profunda, una odisea de riesgo erotico e intrepida imaginacion que la obligara a reinventarse a si misma. 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.

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