by Joyce Carol Oates · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466330152
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The Gravedigger's Daughter is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates that tells the story of Rebecca Schwart, a young woman who must reinvent herself after a family tragedy. In 1936, the Schwarts, a family of German immigrants fleeing Nazism, settle in a small town in the United States, where the father finds work as a gravedigger. The novel follows Rebecca's journey through "Deep America", exploring themes of identity, resistance, and the search for a place in the world. Critics have praised Oates' work as a masterful piece of mythical and domestic realism, highlighting her emotionality and ability to illuminate a culture and an era.
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).
