The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver wins the Orange Prize for Fiction
10:30am 10/06/2010
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver has won the Orange Prize for Fiction. The award recognises the work of fiction written by women from around the world.
The Lacuna, which took Barbara Kingsolver nearly a decade to write, focuses on Harrison Shepherd - Born in the US and reared in Mexico - who is a liability to his social-climbing mother, Salome. When a violent incident sends him to North Carolina, he remakes himself in America's hopeful image. But political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption.
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