As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives. But while he is tormented by his past and trying to appreciate his own wife and son, Daniel is also haunted, like millions of others, by the need to come to terms with a country destroying itself in the Vietnam War. A stunning fictionalization of a political drama that tore the United States apart, The Book of Daniel is an intensely moving tale of martyrdom and the search for meaning.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141188188
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 336
Tiempo de lectura:
6h 55m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 29/12/2005
Año de edición: 2005
Plaza de edición: London
Alto: 20.0 cm
Ancho: 13.0 cm
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
E.L Doctorow (Nueva York, 1931) es una de las voces fundamentales de la literatura norteamericana contemporánea. Su obra, traducida a 30 lenguas, ha sido merecedora de los premios más importantes de su país, como el Pen/Faulkner y es, año tras año, candidato al Nobel. Autor de novelas tan importantes como Ragtime y Billy Bathgate, Doctorow es, asimismo, autor de relatos, ensayos y teatro.