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Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel.

When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades.

Unfolding in a chorus of multiracial voices - from the police to the media to the victim and her family - which gather to reach a tense crescendo at the novel´s climax, THE SACRIFICE offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution - and the primal decisions we make to protect those we love.

A chilling exploration of complex social, political, and moral themes, THE SACRIFICE is a major work of fiction from one of our most revered literary masters.

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Joyce Carol Oates, geb. 1938 in Lockport (NY), zählt zu den bedeutendsten amerikanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart. Für ihre zahlreichen Romane und Erzählungen wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem National Book Award. Joyce C. Oates lebt in Princeton, New Jersey, wo sie Literatur unterrichtet. Im Jahr 2012 erhielt sie den Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix.

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