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New York Times Bestseller National Bestseller: Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle (#1), Chicago Tribune (#1), Denver Post (#1), Minneapolis Star-Tribune (#1), Publishers Weekly Indie Next Bestseller (#1) Best Book of the Year: New York Times Notable, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Kansas City Star Prize-winning Author: National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Orange Prize for Fiction, Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award) In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds--an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity will take readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events.

About the Author :
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote's Wild Home, a children's book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and its Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.

Review :
"The novel achieves a rare dramatic power...Kingsolver masterfully resurrects a dark period in American history with the assured hand of a true literary artist." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[Kingsolver] hasn't lost her touch...she delivers her signature blend of exotic locale, political backdrop and immediately engaging story line...teems with dark beauty." - People "A crackerjack storyteller. . . . Kingsolver has a way with miracles. One is the way she opens her plot to them. The other is the way she makes us believe." - Newsweek "...True and riveting...Barbara Kingsolver has invented a wondrous filling here, sweeter and thicker than pan dulce, spicy as the hottest Mexican chiles, paranoid as the American government hunting Communists " - Philadelphia Inquirer "Shepherd's story in Kingsolver's accomplished literary hands is so seductive, the prose so elegant, the architecture of the novel so imaginative, it becomes hard to peel away from the book" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent." - Chicago Tribune "There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature. . . . Her descriptions have a magical lyricism rooted in daily life but also on familiar terms with the eternal." - Washington Post Book World "Compelling...Kingsolver's descriptions of life in Mexico City burst with sensory detail--thick sweet breads, vividly painted walls, the lovely white feet of an unattainable love." - The New Yorker "Kingsolver deftly combines real history and the life of the fictional protagonist...A sweeping tale." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Rich...impassioned...engrossing...Politics and art dominate the novel, and their overt, unapologetic connection is refreshing." - Chicago Tribune "Masterful...a reader receives the great gift of entering not one but several worlds...The final pages haunt me still." - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "A sweeping narrative of utopian dreams and political reality...A stirring novel...intimate and pitch-perfect." - San Diego Union-Tribune "A sweeping mural of sensory delights and stimulating ideas about art, government, identity and history...Readers will feel the sting of connection between then and now." - Seattle Times "The most mature and ambitious [novel] she's written...An absorbing portrayal of American life...A rich novel [with] a large, colorful canvas...A tender story about a thoughtful man." - Washington Post "Her best novel yet...both epic and deeply personal...I can't think of another book published this fall that is more worth your time. This is thought-provoking, and potentially thought-changing, historical fiction at its best." - Dallas Morning News "A work that is often close to magic.... Much research underlies this complex weaving...but the work is lofted by lyric prose." - Denver Post "Sprawling, ambitious...[Kingsolver] gives a bristling, colorful glimpse of American life as the country dealt with the Great Depression, World War II and communist witch hunts...a book blazing with color." - USA Today "A lavishly gifted writer... Kingsolver [has a] wonderful ear for the quirks of human repartee. The Lacuna is richly spiked with period language... This book grabs at the heartstrings..." - Los Angeles Times "[Kingsolver's] playful pastiche brings to vivid life the culture wars of an earlier era..." - Vogue


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780060852573
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 528
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0060852577
  • Publisher Date: 03 Nov 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 844 gr


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