The Women's Prize-winning novel from the international bestselling author of Demon Copperhead.

'Lush.' Sunday Times
'Superb.' Daily Mail
'Elegantly written.' Telegraph

This 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 Mc-Carthy.
Born in America and raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - where the Bol-shevik leader, Lev Trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolution. A compul-sive 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 toss him be-tween north and south.

The Lacuna is the unforgettable story of a man caught between two worlds. It is both a portrait of the artist-and of art itself.

Details

ISBN13: 9780571252671
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 688
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.6(L)x4.1(W)547
Weight (gm): 547

Author Biography

Barbara Kingsolver is one of the most important voices of our time. Barbara Kingsolver's previous fourteen works of fiction and non-fiction have been translated into dozens of languages and earned a devoted readership. She won the Orange Prize in 2010 for The Lacuna and her novel Flight Behaviour was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2000 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, her country's highest honour for service through the arts. Before she made her living as a writer, Kingsolver earned degrees in biology and worked as a scientist. She now lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

Reviews

'Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favourite writers. The Lacuna is a fasci-nating, compelling book which opens up an extraordinary world for the reader.' Kate Atkinson

'[Kingsolver] delivers her signature blend of exotic locale, political back-drop and immediately engaging story line . . . it teems with dark beauty.' People