by Glenway Wescott · Lumen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426415707
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«Las abuelas» is the novel by Glenway Wescott, published by Lumen in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
Alwyn Tower reconstructs his family history from old photographs and uncovers secrets and tragedies spanning several generations of a rural Wisconsin family. Organized like an album of images, the novel portrays memory, identity, and the weight of the past in the origins of American society.
The novel was originally published in 1927 as The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait and won the Harper Prize. The Spanish translation is by Toni Hill Gumbao.
For readers of literary and family fiction, with an interest in twentieth-century American narrative and generational portraits.
Glenway Wescott was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. A figure of the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s, Wescott was openly gay. His relationship with longtime companion Monroe Wheeler lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death.
