In the early 1900s, Bessie Bawtry, a small child with big notions, lives in a South Yorkshire mining town in England. Precocious and refined in a land of little ambition and much mining grime, Bessie waits for the day she can escape the bleak, coarse existence her ancestors had seldom questioned.
Nearly a century later Bessie's granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, is listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has returned to the depressed little town in which Bessie grew up and wonders at the families who never left. Confronted with what would have been her life had her grandmother stayed, she finds herself faced with difficult questions. Is she really so different from the South Yorkshire locals? As she soon learns, the past has a way of reasserting itself-not unlike the peppered moth that was once thought to be nearing extinction but is now enjoying a sudden unexplained resurgence.
The Peppered Moth is a brilliant novel, full of irony, sadness, and humor.
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Zustand: Como nuevo. : En la Inglaterra de principios del siglo XX, Bessie Bawtry, una niña con grandes aspiraciones, vive en un pueblo minero de South Yorkshire. Precoz y refinada en una tierra de poca ambición y mucha mugre minera, Bessie espera el día en que pueda escapar de la existencia sombría y tosca que sus antepasados rara vez cuestionaron. Casi un siglo después, la nieta de Bessie, Faro Gaulden, está escuchando una conferencia sobre la herencia genética. Ha regresado al pequeño pueblo deprimido en el que creció Bessie y se pregunta por las familias que nunca se fueron. Confrontada con lo que habría sido su vida si su abuela se hubiera quedado, se enfrenta a preguntas difíciles. ¿Es realmente tan diferente de los lugareños de South Yorkshire? Pronto descubrirá que el pasado tiene una forma de reafirmarse, como la polilla moteada, que alguna vez se pensó que estaba a punto de extinguirse, pero que ahora disfruta de un repentino resurgimiento. 'The Peppered Moth' es una novela brillante, llena de ironía, tristeza y humor. EAN: 9780156007191 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Peppered Moth Autor: Margaret Drabble Editorial: Harper Perennial Idioma: en Páginas: 384 Formato: tapa blanda. Artikel-Nr. Happ-2023-07-11-cd32782a
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