The Secret - Brossura

Hoffman, Eva

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099428458 ISBN 13: 9780099428459

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2003

Riassunto

'Of course, I've always had a secret. Have I always known it? I suppose I did, in a way - in the way that children know such things. That is, I knew and didn't know-'In this novel, Eva Hoffman explores various kinds and strata of secrets: intimate secrets, and secrets of family past; the kinds of secrets that can be decoded from clues, and the kind that themselves seem to offer tantalizing clues to the fundamental mysteries of the human selfhood. This is a story about a peculiarly powerful mother-daughter bond and about a haunting, about a young woman's quest for individuation and the challenges posed by contemporary science to our deepest notions of individuality. Using the near future to reflect on the conditions of the present, Hoffman has written a tale that grapples with the oldest riddles of identity, consciousness and self-knowledge - a novel of ideas for our time, and an imaginative fable whose resonance is timeless.

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Descrizione del libro:

A magnificent debut novel from the acclaimed author of Shtetl, Lost in Translation and Exit into History.

L'autore:

Eva Hoffman was born in Krakow, Poland, and immigrated to America at the age of thirteen. The recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and letters, she currently lives in London

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099428458
• ISBN 13: 9780099428459
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272