FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Lush.'Sunday Times'Superb.'Daily Mail'Elegantly written.'Sunday TelegraphFrom award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and Flight Behaviour,The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy.Born in America and raised in Mexico,Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother,Salome. When he starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - where the Bolshevik leader,Lev Trotsky,is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art,communism and revolution. A compulsive diarist,he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with Diego Rivera,Frida Kahlo and Trotsky in the midst of the Mexican revolution. A violent upheaval sends him back to America; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south,in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571252671Number of pages: 688Weight: 547 gDimensions: 198 x 126 x 41 mmEdition: Main
Barbara Kingsolver
An ecologist and biologist by training,Barbara Kingsolver shifted into fiction in 1988 and within a decade produced the masterfulThe Poisonwood Bible, a novel echoing her own year-long experience of living in the Congo. Winner of many awards,her subsequent books have often charted our own relationships with our environment,particularly the stunning Flight Behaviour of 2012,a story describing the subtle but real impact of climate change in rural Tennessee.
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