Fun Home (Espanol)

Una familia tragic mica, el exitoso relato de maduraci n de Alison Bechdel, que ha sido calificado de "proeza de retrato familiar" y de "raro y original ejemplo de por qu las novelas gr ficas han dado que hablar en la literatura americana". Fun Home fue nombrado Mejor libro del a o por Time, The New York Times y People. El padre de Alison es un profesor de ingl s obsesionado por restaurar con antig edades su casa victoriana y es due o de una vieja funeraria. En consonancia con la frialdad de su entorno, es un padre distante y tir nico que mantiene en secreto su verdadera inclinaci n sexual. A trav s de esta narrativa gr fica, c mica y desoladora, nos acercamos a los complejos de Alison, que lucha en soledad por encontrar su lugar en el mundo y redimir su precaria relaci n familiar. La cr tica ha opinado: Fun Home debe ser el trabajo m s ingeniosamente elaborado y un ejemplo de prolija elocuencia biogr fica [...] una obra pionera del g nero" -The New York Times

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award • Nominated for the GLAAD Media Award Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.