by Anne Tyler · Guanda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788877464774
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a poignant family saga by Anne Tyler. It follows the lives of Pearl Tull and her three children—Cody, Ezra, and Jenny—as they navigate the emotional scars left by their father's abandonment. The novel masterfully examines the dynamics of sibling rivalry, maternal influence, and the persistent hope for family reconciliation, centered around Ezra's attempts to bring the family together for a meal at his restaurant.
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.
