by Paula Fox · W. W. Norton & Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780393322859
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«A Servant's Tale» is the novel by Paula Fox, published by W. W. Norton & Company in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Luisa de la Cueva is born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, daughter of a planter's son and a servant. When the family emigrates to New York fearing revolution, Luisa works as a domestic and gains independence. The novel follows her life from Caribbean childhood to maturity in the big city, with prose that portrays the everyday with depth and compassion.
With an introduction by Melanie Rehak. Part of the Norton Paperback Fiction collection. The novel was originally published in 1984.
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
