by Diane Setterfield · Editorial Empúries · tapa dura · ISBN 9788497872379
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«El conte número tretze» is the mystery novel by Diane Setterfield, published by Editorial Empúries in hardback (400 pages, in Catalan).
Margaret Lea, a young biographer and bookseller, is commissioned to write the life of Vida Winter, an elderly writer who finally wants to tell her true story. In the decrepit Yorkshire mansion, Margaret hears a tale of twins, incest and decay that also confronts her with the secrets of her own birth.
Empúries Narrativa collection; translation by Rosa Maria Borràs Montané. Winner of the ALA Alex Award and the Quill Award in 2007.
For those who enjoy gothic fiction and stories about books, with echoes of Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters and Daphne du Maurier.
Diane Setterfield is an English author whose 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a New York Times No. 1 best-seller. Setterfield won the 2007 Quill Award, debut author of the year, for the novel. It is written in the Gothic tradition, with echoes of Brontë sisters' Jane Eyre (1847) and Wuthering Heights (1847).
