by Francisco Goldman · Il Saggiatore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788842805984
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«La lunga notte delle piume bianche» is the novel by Francisco Goldman, published by Il Saggiatore in paperback (508 pages, in Italian).
Roger Graetz, raised between Boston and his Guatemalan heritage, returns to Guatemala in the 1980s to reconstruct the life of Flor de Mayo, the young woman who worked in his family home and later ran an orphanage. With his friend Luis Moya, he investigates her story in a search that blends love, mystery, and social critique.
Debut novel by Francisco Goldman, originally published in English in 1992 as The Long Night of White Chickens; winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
For readers of literary fiction seeking a narrative with social and political background, with elements of mystery and a love story.
Francisco Goldman is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College. His most recent novel, Monkey Boy (2021), was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
