by Tracy Chevalier · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426417824
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«Las huellas de la vida» is the historical novel by Tracy Chevalier, published by LUMEN in hardback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Set on the English coast at the beginning of the 19th century, the novel follows Mary Anning, a young woman of humble origins, and Elizabeth Philpot, a cultured lady, united by their passion for fossils. Mary's discovery of a large skeleton attracts the attention of the scientific community and reopens the debate on the origin of species, while the two women struggle to make their way in a male-dominated world and to have their work recognised.
The novel was originally published as «Remarkable Creatures»; the fiction is based on the historical figures of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot and on the palaeontological environment of the time.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and biographical fiction, as well as for those who enjoyed other works by Chevalier such as «La joven de la perla».
Tracy Rose Chevalier is an American-British novelist. She is best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
