by Anne Tyler · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099499398
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«Digging to America» is the contemporary novel by Anne Tyler, published by Vintage in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Two Korean girls arrive adopted in Baltimore: one to the Donaldson, enthusiastic Americans, and the other to the Yazdan, an Iranian family settled in the country. Each year they celebrate together 'Arrival Day' and their relationship grows amid misunderstandings and affection, while Maryam, the Iranian grandmother, watches the girls become American.
Originally published in 2006, this English edition appeared in 2007; the novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and nominated for the Dublin Literary Award.
For reading groups and readers of literary fiction about adoption, family, and identity.
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.
