by Siri Hustvedt · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432235580
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«Elegía para un americano» is the contemporary fiction novel by Siri Hustvedt published by Planeta in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
After the death of their father, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a note from 1937 alluding to a silenced tragedy. They try to reconstruct the story of their Norwegian emigrant family and confront their own secrets: Erik, a divorced psychiatrist, is drawn to his neighbour Miranda; Inga, a widowed writer, tries to protect her daughter from a journalist.
Original title: The Sorrows of an American (2008). Translation by Cecilia Ceriani. Biblioteca Formentor collection.
For fans of contemporary fiction and novels about families with secrets, loss and memory; suitable for reading groups.
Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), Memories of the Future (2019), and Ghost Stories (2026). What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
