by Anne Tyler · Lumen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426412249
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«Buscando a Caleb» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by Lumen in paperback (329 pages, in Spanish).
The novel portrays the Peck family: Duncan, fascinated by chance, moves his family aimlessly; Justine, his wife, is a fortune-teller but doesn't remember her past; and Daniel, the grandfather, longs to find the brother who disappeared in 1912 carrying a violin. Their journeys delve into family roots, where rebellion and acceptance merge.
The English original, Searching for Caleb, was published in 1975; this Spanish edition dates from 1994.
For readers of literary fiction and family dramas; the novel offers eccentric characters and an ironic look at life.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
