ANDREW MILLER

Ganador del Premio IMPAC por El insensible, el británico Andrew Miller aborda en esta última novela la realidad de un mundo donde la brutalidad convive con la compasión, señalando la línea sumamente fina que separa el optimismo del autoengaño.Con una prosa incisiva y sin concesiones, un ritmo vivo y una estructura cuidada, el autor otea las turbulentas aguas de un desmoronamiento psicologico y traza alguna de las lineas clave de la topografia emocional de nuestra epoca. Los optimistas confirma a Miller como uno de los cronistas mas lucidos de los inagotables vericuetos del alma humana.

She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world''s curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known. Who else has entered Tim''s life the way Maud did? This girl who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all began. He wants her - wants to rescue her, to reach her. Yet there is nothing to suggest Maud has any need of him, that she is not already complete. A woman with a talent for survival, who works long hours and loves to sail - preferably on her own. A woman who, when a crisis comes, will turn to the sea for refuge, embarking on a voyage that will test her to the utmost, that will change everything ...From the Costa Award-winning author of Pure comes a viscerally honest, hypnotic portrait of modern love and motherhood, the lure of the sea and the ultimate unknowability of others. This pitch-perfect novel confirms Andrew Miller''s position as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Disruptive and graceful beyond anything I ve read SARAH HALL author of Burntcoat Absolutely essential gently and startlingly beautiful JENN ASHWORTH author of Ghosted A wondrous novel TIM PEARS author of The West Country Trilogy December 1962 the West Country In the darkness of an old asylum a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills In the nearby village two couples begin their day Local doctor Eric Parry mulling secrets sets out on his rounds while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage Across the field in a farmhouse impossible to heat funny troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore He s been up for hours tending to the needs of the small dairy farm he bought a place where he hoped to create a new version of himself a project that s already faltering There is affection if not always love in both homes these are marriages that still hold some promise But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards a true winter the harshest in living memory the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel Where do you hide when you can t leave home And where in a frozen world could you run

En los albores de la era de la Razón, cuando las oscuras sombras de la superstición comenzaban a ceder ante la luz del saber empírico, se sitúa la misteriosa historia de James Dyer, un hombre que merced al dudoso privilegio de ser inmune al dolor fisico logra alcanzar las cotas mas altas de la incipiente ciencia medica. En torno a esta curiosa paradoja ha construido Andrew Miller una novela extraordinaria, aclamada unanimemente por la critica y que traera a los lectores inequivocas reminiscencias de otra obra de similar rareza, El perfume de Patrick Suskind. Desde su fugaz concepcion sobre la superficie helada de un rio hasta el momento crucial en que conocemos su oscuro secreto, la vida de James Dyer es el eje de un relato sin concesiones, rebosante de imagenes, sonidos y aromas de una epoca en la que tanto villanos como victimas eran titeres de una sociedad implacable, donde la vida parecia supeditada al azar, la traicion y la malicia. ¿Que necesita mas el mundo, un hombre bueno y normal, o alguien excepcional, aunque con un corazon de hielo? La pregunta, en boca de uno de los personajes, sintetiza tal vez el inquietante escepticismo de Andrew Miller, cuya profundidad y honestidad, unidas a una prosa potente y refinada, hacen de El insensible una obra singular y reveladora.

Set in Japan in the run-up to Pearl Harbour, the mesmerising tale of a young man forced to make life-changing decisions, by one of the most highly acclaimed British writers

The timely, exceptionally powerful new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of OXYGEN

By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose. One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain.

She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known. Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This girl who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all began. He wants her - wants to rescue her, to reach her. Yet there is nothing to suggest Maud has any need of him, that she is not already complete. A woman with a talent for survival, who works long hours and loves to sail - preferably on her own. A woman who, when a crisis comes, will turn to the sea for refuge, embarking on a voyage that will test her to the utmost, that will change everything ...From the Costa Award-winning author of Pure comes a viscerally honest, hypnotic portrait of modern love and motherhood, the lure of the sea and the ultimate unknowability of others. This pitch-perfect novel confirms Andrew Miller's position as one of the finest writers of his generation.

The Optimists. When Clem Glass, an experienced photo-journalist, witnesses the grotesque aftermath of a genocidal massacre in central Africa, it is more than he can bear. He returns to London with his faith in humanity, his life derailed. Yet gradually his outlook is undermined by what he observes around him: the kindness of an elderly aunt, the perplexed sincerity of his father, the joyful love between his cousin and her fiance. Even the irrepressible trickle of goodness in his own heart. Then news arrives that offers Clem the chance to confront the author of his nightmares. In a profoundly affecting, searching novel, Andrew Miller explores how we act in a world where monstrous cruelty co-exists with infinite compassion, and the line between optimism and self-delusion remains perilously thin.

En el siglo XVIII, se sitúa la historia de James Dyer, un hombre enigmático que, impulsado por su incapacidad de sentir el dolor, se convierte en un cirujano brillante y siniestro. Sólo el amor es ca

Ganador del premio IMPAC 1999, el inglés Andrew Miller destaca por la claridad y exactitud de su prosa, una de las más refinadas de la literatura británica actual. En esta ambiciosa obra, Miller entra de lleno en los innumerables contornos que definen la condición humana.

In the summer of 1997, four people reach a turning point: Alice Valentine, her two sons, and Laszlo Lazar. For each, the time has come to assess what matters in life, and all will be forced to take part in an act of liberation - not necessarily the one foreseen. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this is an exploration of courage and liberation.

Poco podía imaginarse el célebre Giacomo Casanova que a sus treinta y ocho años, en el cenit de su carrera libertina, padecería precisamente los estragos del amor no correspondido. Llegado a Londres en 1763, cuando la vida cortesana alcanzaba su maximo esplendor y refinamiento, Casanova se queda deslumbrado por la encantadora Marie Charpillon, joven londinense a quien no duda ni un instante en intentar seducir. Sin embargo, para su desconcierto, la hermosa Marie hace caso omiso de los refinados lances amatorios puestos en liza por el mas famoso Don Juan de todos los tiempos. Obsesionado con la joven desdeñosa y esquiva, Casanova comprueba con horror que la pasion se ha apoderado de el, y ha de recurrir a su dilatada experiencia para no sucumbir en la empresa. Centrandose en uno de los episodios menos conocidos de la azarosa biografia de Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, Andrew Miller despliega la misma prosa exquisita y exacta con que nos deleito en El insensible para abordar desde una perspectiva literaria el eterno dilema del amor y la seduccion. Mediante la voz de un Casanova llegado a la senectud, que rememora los momentos decisivos de su vida, Miller explora los mecanismos mas profundos y sutiles que mueven a las personas a someterse sin condiciones a la voluntad del ser deseado.

Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He''s been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that''s already faltering.

Celebrado por la sutilidad y exactitud de su prosa, así como por su maestría para recrear ambientes donde enmarcar sugerentes conflictos morales, Andrew Miller ha vuelto a cautivar a los críticos y lectores ingleses con Una mañana, como un pajaro, su quinta novela. La intensificacion de la guerra sino-japonesa y la sombra del inminente conflicto con los aliados tienen una presencia dominante en el Tokio de los años cuarenta. Pese a su mala salud, el joven Yuji Takano lleva una vida despreocupada gracias al dinero que recibe de su padre. Puede permitirse frecuentar un circulo de amistades bohemias, escribir poemas y acudir a los encuentros mensuales del Club Frances en casa de monsieur Feneon y su hija, Alissa, la unica chica occidental que conoce. Pero cuando su padre cae en desgracia, las posibilidades de ser reclutado aumentan considerablemente. Por primera vez, Yuji se vera en la necesidad de elegir entre mantenerse como espectador de su propia existencia o ceder ante un mundo nuevo y desconocido, aceptando los sinsabores que depare el futuro. Solo le queda una certeza: nada volvera a ser igual, y no podra pedir ayuda, pues quien puede darsela lucha tambien por su supervivencia en un tiempo especialmente convulso. Sin caer en un ejercicio de nostalgia, Miller demuestra su gran afinidad y su conocimiento de la historia y la cultura japonesas, que recrea con exquisitez y abundancia de detalles en un relato de alcance universal, en el que un hombre lucha por hallar su lugar en el mundo.