by Joyce Carol Oates · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466324960
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«Mamá» is the contemporary fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (480 pages, in Spanish).
After the unexpected death of her mother, Nikki Eaton, a thirty-one-year-old woman who has never seen herself as a daughter, lives a year of mourning that transforms her: amid grief she discovers wisdom, family bonds and an unexpected love. The novel portrays middle-class life and the relationship between mothers and daughters.
The novel was originally published as «Missing Mom» in 2005, with Spanish translation by Carme Camps, in the Formato Grande collection from Punto de Lectura.
For readers of contemporary fiction and reading groups interested in stories about grief and family relationships.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
