Lacuna

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna is an ambitious and gripping historical novel about Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Communism, and one man’s epic search for identity in Mexico and the United States.

The author of The Poisonwood Bible; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and more; Kingsolver tells the complex, gripping tale of Harrison William Shepherd, a writer whose journey from the 1920s to the ’50s allows him to witness the tumultuous lives of artists Rivera and Kahlo in Mexico, the politics of Leon Trotsky, and the bullying tactics of J. Edgar Hoover and McCarthyism in Washington, D.C.

The Lacuna, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, is written with Kingsolver’s masterful lyricism as she blends real and fictional characters and events in a poignant story of a man torn between two nations and the impact of history on art and artists.

This Harper Perennial Deluxe Modern Classic features beautiful cover artwork on uncoated stock, French flaps, and deckle-edge pages.

The Lacuna este un roman istoric ambitios si captivant despre Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, comunismul si cautarea epica a unui om in Mexic si Statele Unite. Autorul The Poisonwood Bible; Animale, legume, minuni si multe altele; Kingsolver spune povestea complexa si captivanta a lui Harrison William Shepherd, un scriitor a carui calatorie din anii 1920 pana in anii '50 ii permite sa asiste la viata tumultuoasa a artistilor Rivera si Kahlo din Mexic, la politica lui Leon Trotsky si la tacticile de intimidare ale lui J .