Reflexos en un ull daurat

Reflections in a Golden Eye, published just a year after The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, the celebrated debut of Carson McCullers, confirmed at the time the literary talent of that young writer and shocked American public opinion because it touched on issues such as homosexuality and infidelity. Set on a military base in the southern United States during the 1930s, the novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, an officer tormented by his sexuality, his frivolous and flirtatious wife Leonora, and Private Williams, a young man. lonely and introverted. With the arrival at the base of Major Langdon, married to the fragile and vulnerable Alison, tensions erupt in a suffocating, claustrophobic hell. Reflections in a Golden Eye is a powerful and exciting story that explores loneliness within marriage, alienation and unrequited love, and shows, once again, Carson McCullers' instinct to detect emotions hidden in the heart and the soul of people.