Ebook {Epub PDF} A Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

 · The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. Frida Kahlo, centre, welcomes Leon Trotsky and his wife to Mexico in January Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis. Frida Kahlo, centre, welcomes Leon Trotsky and his Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from a coastal .  · New York Times bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna is an ambitious and gripping historical novel about Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Communism, and one man’s epic search for identity in Mexico and the United States. The author of The Poisonwood Bible; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and more; Kingsolver tells the complex, gripping tale of Harrison William Shepherd, a writer Brand: HarperCollins e-books.

Barbara Kingsolver was born on Ap in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. She spent most of the days of her youth on one of the alfalfa farms of her family located in eastern Kentucky. When she was seven years old, she was taken to the Democratic Republic of Congo along with her family by her father, who was a physician by profession. The Lacuna: A Novel. By Barbara Kingsolver. Hardcover, pages. Harper Collins. List price: $ Read An Excerpt. Enlarge this image. Barbara Kingsolver is an author, a poet and the creator. By Barbara KingsolverHarper Perennia, pages, $ In Barbara Kingsolver's rich new novel "The Lacuna," the artist Frida Kahlo remarks that she would like to think she is being "pulled.

In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The (ISBN). The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. This long-awaited novel recalls a dangerous era for artists. By Maya Jaggi. Frida Kahlo with her husband, Diego Rivera. Photograph: Wallace Marly/Hulton Archive. In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds—an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity will take readers to the heart of the twentieth century’s most tumultuous events.