Mothers and Sons

Resumen del libro

A mother and son, estranged for many years, reckon at last with the secret that has kept them apart in this highly anticipated novel by one of the most talented American writers of his generationPeter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated, spending his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional detached hook-ups. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness, the catastrophic event that he has avoided facing for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann, his mother, who runs a women's retreat she founded after leaving his father, is hurt by her estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built.

She long ago put behind her the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter's case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart.

Biografía del autor

Adam Haslett (1970) es el autor de la novela Imagina que no estoy, finalista del premio Pulitzer y del National Book Critics Circle Award, y ganadora del Los Angeles Times Book Award. Con su colección de relatos Aquí no eres un extraño fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award. Y su novela Union Atlantic fue ganadora del Lambda Literary Award y finalista del Commonwealth Prize. Sus libros han sido traducidos a treinta idiomas, y sus artículos sobre cultura y política han aparecido en medios como The Financial Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation y The Atlantic, entre otros.<br> Ha sido galardonado con el Berlin Prize de la American Academy in Berlin, ha recibido una beca Guggenheim, los premios PEN/Malamud Award y PEN/Winship y el Strauss Living Award, otorgado por la American Academy of Arts x{0026}amp; Letters