Brillo / Luster by Raven Leilani

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Brillo / Luster by Raven Leilani

«La novela que por fin explica qu es ser joven hoy. Una escritora absolutamente brutal.  --Zadie Smith

Edie, una joven afroamericana de 23 a os, tiene una aventura con Eric, un hombre blanco casado de 41. El hogar no se rompe. Este matrimonio privilegiado, pero progresista, la invita a trabajar en su casa. El hogar, lleno de tensiones y descubrimientos, se convierte en otra cosa.

Libro favorito de Barack Obama y de The New Yorker. Bestseller en la lista de The New York Times. Uno de los libros del a o de The New York Times Review of Books, NPR, O Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Shondaland, The Times (UK), Buzzfeed, Kirkus, Time, Good Housekeeping, InStyle, The Guardian, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The New York Public Library y Wired, entre muchas otras cabeceras de lo m s dispares.

Ganador de los premios NBCC John Leonard Prize, Kirkus, Premio Primera Novela de The Center for Fiction, Premio Dylan Thomas, y el VCU Cabell al mejor debut.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Razor-sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut about what it means to be young now.

Edie is just trying to survive. She's messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that she doesn't really know what she's doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. And then she meets Eric, a white middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn't have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscape of sexual and racial politics as a young black woman wasn't already hard enough, with nowhere else left to go, Edie finds herself falling head-first into Eric's home and family.
Leilani, Raven: - Raven Leilani's work has been published in Granta, The Yale Review, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, The Cut, and New England Review, among other publications. Leilani received her MFA from NYU and was an Axinn Foundation Writer-in-Residence. Luster is her first novel.
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ISBN 13 9788419172280
ISBN 10 8419172286
Title Brillo / Luster
Author Raven Leilani
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Blackie Books
Year published 2022-11-08
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.