Homeland

Homeland

by Barbara Kingsolver
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 06/10/2011

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FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION


TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION


THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR


From the international bestselling and prize-winning author of Demon Copperhead, The Lacuna and Poisonwood Bible, the short stories in this collection are spread over landscapes ranging from northern California and the urban Southwest to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia.


In every setting the characters are bound by a strong sense of place and the ties of love and family history: a child accepts the impossible responsibility of remembering her Cherokee great-grandmother's dying culture; a quietly dissolving couple must fight ghosts of past expectations to reach one another; a tough Mexican American woman finds herself in jail because of her commitment to a family legacy of 'doing the right thing'.


Homeland and Other Stories follows in the tradition of some of the great short story writers of our time, including Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor and Annie Proulx. With disarming honesty - at times comic but often heartrending - Barbara Kingsolver emerges as a true master of the form.


What readers are saying:


***** 'Wonderful short stories, warm and engaging, I couldn't put it down!'


***** 'Thoroughly enjoyable. . .Barbara Kingsolver is one of the great storytellers of our time!'


***** 'Great stories at times heartbreaking but combined with humour.'


***** 'Phenomenal. I'm adding this to my list of reasons to love Barbara Kingsolver.'

ISBN:
9780571283293
9780571283293
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-10-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Barbara Kingsolver

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.

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