by Anne Tyler · LUMEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426419521
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«Reunión en el restaurante Nostalgia» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by Lumen in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
Pearl wants to remember the key moments of her life before she dies, starting with the night in 1944 when her husband left without explanation. The novel follows her children Cody, Jenny and Ezra, and the gatherings at the Nostalgia restaurant, where the absence of the one who never arrives and family tensions surface around the table.
The original English title is Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. The novel won the PEN/Faulkner Award 1983. The Spanish translation is by Aurora Echevarría Pérez.
For a general audience interested in modern fiction and family stories.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
