by Joyce Carol Oates · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422629160
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«Marya» is the novel by Joyce Carol Oates published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (349 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows Marya Knauer from childhood to adulthood, in a setting marked by violence and family losses. Written in eleven chapters, the novel combines an autobiographical character with a structure that allows each chapter to be read as an independent story, and dwells on the protagonist's psychological evolution and the settings of a changing America.
Spanish edition of 1989, in the Narradores del Mundo collection, with translation by Carmen Francí Ventosa and introduction by Aránzazu Usandizaga. The English original was published as «Marya: A Life».
For readers of North American literary fiction and of Joyce Carol Oates's work who seek character-driven novels with realistic atmosphere and psychological depth.
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).
