by Susan Sontag · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499081755
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«En América» is the historical novel by Susan Sontag, published by Debolsillo in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
In 1876, a group of Poles led by the actress Maryna Zalezowska emigrates to California to found a utopian commune. When the project dissolves, Maryna stays in the United States, learns English, and triumphs as Marina Zalenska, a diva compared to Sarah Bernhardt. The novel explores the American dream and the search for a new identity.
The original, In America, was published in 2000 and won the National Book Award; the translation is by Jordi Fibla Feito.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and literary narrative, as well as for those who want to discover Susan Sontag's narrative work.
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999).
