by Diane Johnson · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420466552
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«Divorcio a la francesa» is the humorous novel by Diane Johnson, published by Alfaguara in paperback (388 pages, in Spanish).
When Isabel Walker travels to Paris to help her sister Roxy, pregnant and married to a French aristocrat, everything gets complicated: the husband has fled and his family tries to prevent the divorce. A valuable family painting and the differences between American and French culture fuel the entanglements.
The novel was originally published as «Le Divorce» in 1996; this Spanish edition appeared in 2003. It was a finalist for the National Book Award.
For those seeking humorous novels with a Parisian setting and family conflicts between cultures.
Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often feature American heroines living in contemporary France. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Persian Nights in 1988.
