by Jane Smiley · Rivages · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782743601249
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«L'Exploitation» is Jane Smiley's family drama novel, published by Rivages in paperback (608 pages, in French).
In 1979, in Iowa, farmer Larry Cook, a proud and demanding man, decides to divide his vast farm among his daughters Ginny, Rose and Caroline. When the youngest, a lawyer who lives far from the farm, opposes the plan, her father disinherits her. The decision unleashes conflicts, secrets and disappointments that end up destroying family ties.
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. Original title: A Thousand Acres. Translation by Françoise Cartano. Volume 199 of the Rivages Poche / Bibliothèque étrangère collection.
For readers of literary fiction and family drama, and ideal for reading clubs.
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
