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It is a cause for celebration every time a new book flows from the pen of Barbara Kingsolver, an American author whose diversity of prose and affinity with the lives and feelings of the man in the street attest to her literary talents. Author of many works of prose, poetry and non-fiction, Kingsolver’s best known books remain The Bean Trees (1988), its sequel Pigs in Heaven (1993), her masterpiece The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a record of her family’s year spent cultivating their own food (2007).
The Lacuna
is her first novel in nearly ten
years, written as a series of diary
entries, letters and newspaper
clippings over several decades.
It spans the lifetime of the
fictional main character, Harrison
Shepherd, from his sojourn in the
household of
Diego Rivera and
Frida Kahlo in
revolutionary Mexico during the time
of
Trotsky’s murder through
to his appearance before the |
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Diego Rivera Documentary
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