Un rbol Crece En Brooklyn / A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Cover Art for 9788426406866, Un rbol Crece En Brooklyn / A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
ISBN: 9788426406866
Publisher: Lumen Press
Published: 22 October, 2019
Format: Paperback
Language: Spanish
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TIMES 2020, los 100 mejores libros juveniles de todos los tiemposNominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read.«Un libro bellísimo de una novelista maravillosa y olvidada.».- Paul Auster«Un libro conmovedor y honesto, que llega al corazón de la vida […]. Un árbol crece en Brooklyn es una lectura que nadie debería perderse.». –The New York TimesCorren los años veinte del siglo pasado y descubrimos a la pequeña Francie Nolan leyendo sentada en la escalera antiincendios de su casa, a la sombra de un árbol que solo crece en los barrios más pobres de las grandes ciudades. Poco a poco, la mirada se aleja de la chiquilla para abarcar a la estrafalaria familia Nolan, que malvive en un barrio de Brooklyn. Conoceremos así a sus padres, a su hermano y a la entrañable tía Sissy, que usa a los hombres para aplacar sus instintos maternales. Francie crece rodeada de los libros que tanto le gustan y pronto empieza a preguntar y a pedirle a la vida algo más que un triste acomodo en la mediocridad.De esas hermosas y tercas ganas de saber nace Un árbol crece en Brooklyn, una novela donde cualquier detalle de la vida doméstica revela un mundo hecho de apuestas y deseos, donde los personajes son tan próximos que nos duelen sus dolores y donde el sueño americano cobra por fin peso y color.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONTIMES 2020 100 Best YA of All Times A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the century.From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric behavior—such as her father Johnny’s taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy’s habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce—no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans’ life lacked drama. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the Nolans’ daily experiences are tenderly threaded with family connectedness and raw with honesty. Betty Smith has, in the pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, captured the joys of humble Williamsburg life-from “junk day” on Saturdays, when the children of Francie’s neighborhood traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry. Betty Smith has artfully caught this sense of exciting life in a novel of childhood, replete with incredibly rich moments of universal experiences—a truly remarkable achievement for any writer.

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