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Pigs in Heaven

vonBarbara Kingsolver

FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Unforgettable' Cosmopolitan'Kingsolver blends a fierce and abiding moral vision with benevolent concise humour.' New York Times Book ReviewWhen six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead to a man's dramatic rescue.But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions. The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past.Pigs in Heaven travels the roads from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind. It is a spellbinding novel of heartbreak and love.

Language

en

Published on

04/11/2013

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780571298839

Themen FamilyLoveIdentity
StimmungHopeful, Reflective
Weibliche Protagonistin
HumorOccasional Humor
RomantikMajor Subplot

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