Delatora / My Life as a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates
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Delatora / My Life as a Rat


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La última novela de la gran escritora americana de nuestros días.
Una historia vigorosa sobre la familia, sus expectativas y la ineludible necesidad de romper con ella.

«La violencia del mundo de Oates es excesiva porque se parece mucho a la nuestra.» -The New York Times

«Una adelantada a su tiempo y una suerte de baluarte moral contra la intolerancia y el miedo.» -Nuria Azancot, El Cultural

¿Qué debería prevalecer: la lealtad familiar o la lealtad a la verdad? ¿Alguna vez es un error decir la verdad, hay algún momento en que mentir a la familia esté justificado? ¿Se puede hacer lo correcto y que toda la vida nos lamentemos por ello?

Delatora está protagonizada por Violet Rue Kerrigan, una joven que recuerda su vida después de que, con doce años, ofreciera su testimonio sobre el asesinato racista de un niño afroamericano por parte de sus hermanos mayores y la apartasen de su familia. En una sucesión de episodios recordados de un modo casi palpable, Violet analiza las circunstancias de su vida como la menor de siete hermanos, una niña en su momento querida, que inadvertidamente «delata» a sus hermanos, dando pie a su arresto, su condena y a su propio distanciamiento.

Esta conmovedora novela dibuja una vida de destierro -destierro respecto a los padres, a los hermanos, a la Iglesia- que obliga a Violet a reconstruir su propia identidad, romper el poderoso embrujo de la familia. Un largo exilio como «delatora» para llegar a una vida transformada.

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"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?" --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat

Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it?

My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently "informs" on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement.

Arresting and poignant, My Life as a Rat traces a life of banishment from a family--banishment from parents, siblings, and the Church--that forces Violet to discover her own identity, to break the powerful spell of family, and to emerge from her long exile as a "rat" into a transformed life.
About the Author: Joyce Carol Oates nació en Lockport, Nueva York, en 1938. Autora de más de 50 novelas, más de 400 relatos breves, más de una docena de libros de no ficción, ocho de poesía y otras tantas obras de teatro en cuatro décadas, es una de las grandes figuras de la literatura contemporánea estadounidense.

Ha sido galardonada con numerosos premios, como el National Book Award, el PEN/Malamud Award, el Prix Fémina Étranger y, en España, con el Premio BBK Ja! Bilbao por el «modernísimo humor negro de su obra». En 2011 recibió la National Humanities Medal, el más alto galardón civil del Gobierno estadounidense en el campo de las humanidades, y en 2012, el Premio Stone de la Oregon State University por su carrera literaria.

Alfaguara inició en 2008 la publicación de su obra con la magistral novela La hija del sepulturero, a la que siguieron Mamá; Infiel (recopilación de relatos elegida como uno de los libros más destacados de 2001 según The New York Times); Ave del paraíso; Memorias de una viuda; Una hermosa doncella; Blonde -su gran novela sobre la vida de Marilyn Monroe que fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer-; Hermana mía, mi amor (Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro); Mujer de barro; Carthage; Mágico, sombrío, impenetrable; Rey de picas. Una novela de suspense (uno de los Mejores Libros del año según El Cultural de El Mundo), y Un libro de mártires americanos.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788420439501
  • Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
  • Publisher Imprint: Alfaguara
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8420439509
  • Publisher Date: 20 Apr 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 299 gr

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