HUSTVEDT, SIRI
After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up (briefly), rages (deeply), then decamps to her prairie childhood home.There, gradually, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother's circle of feisty widows; the young woman next door; and the diabolical teenage girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, Mia knows what's worth fighting for - and on whose terms. Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, this is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes.
Siri Hustvedt, nacida en Minnesota, de padres noruegos, vive en Brooklyn, Nueva York. Se ha dedicado a la poesía, el ensayo y la novela.. Ha publicado el libro de relatos "Los ojos vendados" y la novela "El hechizo de Lily Dahl", editados por Circe, así como "En lontananza", una colección de seis ensayos "deslumbrantes", en palabras de Robert Saladrigas.