Delatora / My Life as a Rat
Delatora / My Life as a Rat
Oates, Joyce Carol
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Condition: New, UPC: 9788420439501, Publication Date: Thu, April 1, 2021, Type: Paperback ,
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5La última novela de la gran escritora americana de nuestros días.
Una historia vigorosa sobre la familia, sus expectativas y la ineludible necesidad de romper con ella.

«La violencia del mundo de Oates es excesiva porque se parece mucho a la nuestra. -The New York Times

«Una adelantada a su tiempo y una suerte de baluarte moral contra la intolerancia y el miedo. -Nuria Azancot, El Cultural

Qué debería prevalecer: la lealtad familiar o la lealtad a la verdad? Alguna vez es un error decir la verdad, hay algún momento en que mentir a la familia esté justificado? Se puede hacer lo correcto y que toda la vida nos lamentemos por ello?

Delatora está protagonizada por Violet Rue Kerrigan, una joven que recuerda su vida después de que, con doce años, ofreciera su testimonio sobre el asesinato racista de un niño afroamericano por parte de sus hermanos mayores y la apartasen de su familia. En una sucesión de episodios recordados de un modo casi palpable, Violet analiza las circunstancias de su vida como la menor de siete hermanos, una niña en su momento querida, que inadvertidamente «delata a sus hermanos, dando pie a su arresto, su condena y a su propio distanciamiento.

Esta conmovedora novela dibuja una vida de destierro -destierro respecto a los padres, a los hermanos, a la Iglesia- que obliga a Violet a reconstruir su propia identidad, romper el poderoso embrujo de la familia. Un largo exilio como «delatora para llegar a una vida transformada.

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"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?" --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat

Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it?

My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently "informs" on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement.

Arresting and poignant, My Life as a Rat traces a life of banishment from a family--banishment from parents, siblings, and the Church--that forces Violet to discover her own identity, to break the powerful spell of family, and to emerge from her long exile as a "rat" into a transformed life.

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