by Paula Fox · DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783423131407
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«Lauras Schweigen» is Paula Fox's novel, published by DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch in paperback (233 pages, in German).
On the eve of a trip to Africa, Laura Maldonada Clapper and her husband, Desmond, wait in a New York hotel for three guests: Clara, the daughter from a previous marriage; Carlos, Laura's extravagant brother; and Peter, an editor they haven't seen in a long time. What begins as a farewell party turns into a bitter and oppressive family reunion, while Laura presides over reproaches and insinuations, hiding the death of her mother.
The original novel, «The Widow's Children», was published in 1976; this German version is translated by Susanne Röckel and carries number 13140 in the dtv catalogue.
For readers of literary fiction and narrative about family conflicts, with an atmosphere of psychological tension.
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
