by David Vann · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497878241
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«Terra» is the contemporary novel by David Vann, published in 2013 by Editorial Empúries in paperback (267 pages, in Catalan).
In 1980s America, Galen and his mother, both tormented by obsessions and memories, live with his aunt, his cousin, and his grandmother. They seem to form an ordinary family, but grudges accumulated over years finally erupt in a spiral of violence and devastating consequences.
Work originally published as «Dirt»; this 2013 Catalan edition belonged to the Empúries Narrativa collection and won the St. Francis College Literary Prize.
For readers of literary fiction and stories that delve into the dark side of family life.
David Vann is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for The New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!.
