Shuggie Bain

Resumen del libro

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life.

She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves.

It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother's sense of snobbish propriety.

The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no' right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride.

Biografía del autor

DOUGLAS STUART (Glasgow, Escocia, 1976) se graduó en el Royal College of Art de Londres y poco después se mudó a Nueva York, donde comenzó su carrera como diseñador de moda. En 2020 publicó su primera novela, x{0026}lt;i Historia de Shuggie Bain,x{0026}lt;/i galardonada con el Premio Booker y finalista de otra decena de premios, entre ellos el National Book Award, el National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize o el PEN/Hemingway Award. Ha sido traducida a más de treinta lenguas.