Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024. From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in a mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. In 1874, in the wake of the war, trauma haunts civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital''s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their lives. The.
Autor |
Jayne Anne Phillips |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
304 |
Rok vydania |
2024 |