by Joyce Carol Oates · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420439501
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In 'Delatora' (My Life as a Rat), Joyce Carol Oates introduces us to Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who recalls her life after testifying, at the age of twelve, about the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. This testimony distances her from her family, leading her to a personal exile where she must rebuild her identity and break with the past. The novel explores themes of loyalty, truth, racism, and the consequences of decisions within the family, all narrated with Oates' characteristic intensity.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
