by Jesmyn Ward · SEXTO PISO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416677917
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«La canción de los vivos y los muertos» is the novel by Jesmyn Ward, published by Sexto Piso in paperback (260 pages, in Spanish).
Jojo, thirteen, and his sister Kayla live with their Black grandparents on a farm in Mississippi. Leonie, their mother, takes them to pick up their father when he is released from prison, a journey that confronts the family with its past. Jojo will meet Richie, who brings him closer to the legacy of slavery and reconciliation with history.
Winner of the National Book Award 2017; originally published in English as «Sing, Unburied, Sing». Translation by Francisco González López. Sexto Piso Narrative Collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and foreign narrative interested in family stories with a racial and historical backdrop.
Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.
