by Joyce Carol Oates · Albert Bonniers förlag · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9789100111779
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«Fallen» is the contemporary fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Albert Bonniers förlag in paperback (486 pages, in Swedish).
A newlywed throws himself into Niagara and his wife, Ariah, waits seven days by the falls. From that wait a romance with a lawyer is born, and the narrative expands to family secrets, scandals, trials and death. The novel portrays the crisis of the American family and the country's environmental and historical corruption.
Work translated from English into Swedish, originally published as «The Falls» in 2004. The original was nominated for the Orange Prize and won the Prix Femina in 2005.
For readers of contemporary fiction and American narrative, interested in family dramas with a social and historical backdrop.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
