Anne Tyler

La mejor cronista de la vida familiar (Daily Mail), ganadora de los premios Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle y Pen/Faulkner, regresa con una de sus mejores novelas: una historia llena de humor y esperanza sobre el amor, la familia y la afirmacion de la independencia. Gail Baines ha tenido un mal dia. No esta segura de si ha dejado su trabajo de forma voluntaria o si la han echado. Es la vispera de la boda de Debbie, su hija, y esta no ha tenido la delicadeza de invitarla al dia de spa organizado por su futura consuegra. Para terminar de rematar todo, su exmarido Max se ha instalado en su casa sin avisar, cargado con un gato y sin tan siquiera un traje para asistir a la boda. Pero la verdadera crisis llega cuando Debbie les confia un secreto, del que acaba de enterarse, sobre su futuro marido, que podria dar al traste con el enlace, ademas de remover el pasado de Gail y Max. Una novela construida sobre las alegrias y los sinsabores del amor, el matrimonio y la vida familiar, narrada con la sensibilidad, el mordaz sentido del humor y la maestria de la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer.La critica ha dicho: Un ironico juego de espejos sobre el paso del tiempo, [...] una hilarante y honda historia de simetrias y equivocos que demuestra como la calidad literaria reside en la manera en que se cuenta algo que puede resumirse en una linea.Aloma Rodriguez, El Mundo - La Lectura La autora tiene una habilidad extraordinaria para construir personajes llenos de vida, que se revelan a traves de los gestos, los silencios, las miradas, las conversaciones de apariencia trivial, sin necesidad de largas descripciones. [...] Es una novelista con la mirada afilada, que logra una inmersion en ese reducido circulo familiar con cercania, naturalidad y ternura.Cristina Ros, The Objective ¿Puede ser maravillosa una novela que no habla de nada en particular? Si, porque la cotidianeidad tambien tiene su encanto. Asi lo relata Anne Tyler [en] una historia de amor, familia e independencia. Begoña Alonso, Elle Una novela tan oscura como cotidiana [en la que] la ganadora del Pulitzer esgrime una serie de tramas que le permiten abordar sus temas predilectos:la familia, la fragilidad, la resiliencia y, finalmente, el perdon.Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review ¿Necesitas un abrazo? Lee lo ultimo de la gran Anne Tyler.Minnesota Star Tribune Las frases de Tyler son inequivocamente suyas, reconocibles al instante e imposibles de copiar.Hanya Yanagihara Unade nuestras escritoras de ficcion mas importantes; si por mi fuera, ya tendria el Premio Nobel.Julie Myerson, The Guardian Si Anne Tyler no es la mejor escritora del mundo, ¿quien lo es?.BBC Heredera de Atwood.Elena Mandacen, Glamour Cada nueva novela de Anne Tyler es una maravillosa rareza en el panorama literario de nuestro pais. [...] Si la mejor ficcion consiste en hacer de la cotidianidad virtud, sin recurrir al artificio, la estadounidense es una maestra del genero.Ines Martin Rodrigo, 24 EspañaLeerla es una gozada, un abrazo a la vida, un recorrido por una hermosa forma de escribir, transparente.Publico La mejor cronista de la vida familiar....

La mejor cronista de la vida familiar (Daily Mail), ganadora de los premios Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle y Pen/Faulkner, regresa con una de sus mejores novelas: una historia llena de humor y esperanza sobre el amor, la familia y la afirmacion de la independencia. Gail Baines ha tenido un mal dia. No esta segura de si ha dejado su trabajo de forma voluntaria o si la han echado. Es la vispera de la boda de Debbie, su hija, y esta no ha tenido la delicadeza de invitarla al dia de spa organizado por su futura consuegra. Para terminar de rematar todo, su exmarido Max se ha instalado en su casa sin avisar, cargado con un gato y sin tan siquiera un traje para asistir a la boda. Pero la verdadera crisis llega cuando Debbie les confia un secreto, del que acaba de enterarse, sobre su futuro marido, que podria dar al traste con el enlace, ademas de remover el pasado de Gail y Max.Una novela construida sobre las alegrias y los sinsabores del amor, el matrimonio y la vida familiar, narrada con la sensibilidad, el mordaz sentido del humor y la maestria de la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer.La critica ha dicho: Un ironico juego de espejos sobre el paso del tiempo, [...] una hilarante y honda historia de simetrias y equivocos que demuestra como la calidad literaria reside en la manera en que se cuenta algo que puede resumirse en una linea. Aloma Rodriguez, El Mundo - La LecturaLa autora tiene una habilidad extraordinaria para construir personajes llenos de vida, que se revelan a traves de los gestos, los silencios, las miradas, las conversaciones de apariencia trivial, sin necesidad de largas descripciones. [...] Es una novelista con la mirada afilada, que logra una inmersion en ese reducido circulo familiar con cercania, naturalidad y ternura. Cristina Ros, The Objective¿Puede ser maravillosa una novela que no habla de nada en particular? Si, porque la cotidianeidad tambien tiene su encanto. Asi lo relata Anne Tyler [en] una historia de amor, familia e independencia.Begoña Alonso, ElleUna novela tan oscura como cotidiana [en la que] la ganadora del Pulitzer esgrime una serie de tramas que le permiten abordar sus temas predilectos: la familia, la fragilidad, la resiliencia y, finalmente, el perdon. Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review¿Necesitas un abrazo? Lee lo ultimo de la gran Anne Tyler.Minnesota Star TribuneLas frases de Tyler son inequivocamente suyas, reconocibles al instante e imposibles de copiar. Hanya YanagiharaUna de nuestras escritoras de ficcion mas importantes; si por mi fuera, ya tendria el Premio Nobel. Julie Myerson, The GuardianSi Anne Tyler no es la mejor escritora del mundo, ¿quien lo es?.BBCHeredera de Atwood. Elena Mandacen, Glamour Cada nueva novela de Anne Tyler es una maravillosa rareza en el panorama literario de nuestro pais. [...] Si la mejor ficcion consiste en hacer de la cotidianidad virtud, sin recurrir al artificio, la estadounidense es una maestra del genero. Ines Martin Rodrigo, 24 EspañaLeerla es una gozada, un abrazo a la vida, un recorrido por una hermosa forma de escribir, transparente.PublicoLa mej...

Unahistoria deamorcontemporánea,por laganadora delospremios Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle y PEN/FaulknerUNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE 2021 SEGÚN EL CULTURAL, EL CONFIDENCIAL Y GQ«Tan felices

Liam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certainty and leaves him with a fri

Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was 11 and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at 21, the accident that would make her a widow at 41. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.

With the humour and poignancy of her classic The Accidental Tourist (though with a protagonist who doesn''t venture far from home) Anne Tyler''s new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he''s just been ''let go'' from his school teaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night. Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is a man who is proud of his recall but has learned to dodge issues and skirt adventure. An unpleasant event occurs, though, to jolt him out of his certainty. Obsessed with a frightening gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happened, and finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own, and a late-flowering love that brings its own thorny problems. His ex-wife (sensible Barbara) and daughters worry about him but Liam blunders on, His teenage daughter Kitty is sent to stay - though it''s not clear who is minding whom. His middle daughter, Louise, is a born-again Christian with a son called Jonah, but her certainties leave Liam still more perplexed. Noah''s Compass is about memory and its loss, about incidents and relationships which open up sight lines into a painful past long dead for a man who becomes aware that merely trying to stay afloat may not be enough.

The new bestseller from Anne Tyler: a story about two ordinary people so intertwined they cannot be separated - even by death ... Anne Tyler is a bestselling and prizewinning author The Amateur Marriage was a top 10 bestseller in hardback and paperback; Digging to America and The Amateur Marriage were both shortlisted for the Orange Prize; Tyler was shortlisted for the International Man Booker in 2011 The Beginner''s Goodbye is Tyler at her best - quirky, charming, poignant, beautifully precise - all the ingredients her fans love Whole backlist now available as ebook ''My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world'' Nick Hornby, Independent on Sunday.

Tyler (Breathing Lessons) encompasses the collision of cultures without losing her sharp focus on the daily dramas of modern family life in her 17th novel. When Bitsy and Brad Donaldson and Sami and Ziba Yazdan both adopt Korean infant girls, their chance encounter at the Baltimore airport the day their daughters arrive marks the start of a long, intense if sometimes awkward friendship. Sami''s mother, Maryam Yazdan, who carefully preserves her exotic outsiderness despite having emigrated from Iran almost 40 years earlier, is frequently perplexed by her son and daughter-in-law''s ongoing relationship with the loud, opinionated, unapologetically American Donaldsons. When Bitsy''s recently widowed father, Dave, endearingly falls in love with Maryam, she must come to terms with what it means to be part of a culture and a country. Stretching from the babies'' arrival in 1997 until 2004, the novel is punctuated by each year''s Arrival Party, a tradition manufactured and comically upheld by Bitsy; the annual festivities gradually reveal the families'' evolving connections. Though the novel''s perspective shifts among characters, Maryam is at the narrative and emotional heart of the touching, humorous story, as she reluctantly realizes that there may be a place in her heart for new friends, new loves and her new country after all. -- Publishers Weekly

Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her ''more organic than thou'' airs, who believes fervently that life can always be improved), two full sets of grandparents and a host of big-boned, confident relatives, taking delivery with characteristic American razzmatazz. Then there are the Yazdans, pretty, nervous Ziba (her family ''only one generation removed from the bazaar'') and carefully assimilated Sami, with his elegant, elusive Iranian-born widowed mother Maryam, the grandmother-to-be, receiving their little bundle with wondering discretion. Every year, on the anniversary of ''Arrival Day'' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as tiny, delicate Susan, wholesome, stocky Jin-ho and, later, her new little sister Xiu-Mei, take roots, become American. While Maryam, the optimistic pessimist, confident that if things go wrong - as well they may - she will manage as she has before, contrarily preserves her ''outsider'' status, as if to prove that, despite her passport, she is only a guest in this bewildering country. Full of achingly hilarious moments and toe-curling misunderstandings, Digging to America is a novel with a deceptively small domestic canvas, and subtly large themes - it''s about belonging and otherness, about insiders and outsiders, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right, about striving for connection and goodness against all the odds. And the end catches you by the throat, ambushes your emotions when you least expect it, as only Tyler can.

Aunque las patas de gallo ya crezcan junto a sus hermosos ojos, aunque decenas de familiares -hijas, hijastras, nietos y tíos- aseguren que ya no queda tiempo para emprender un nuevo camino, Rebecca se resiste a convertirse para siempre en una persona que no es ella. Ya no le basta con reinventar la cocina tradicional en su salon de banquetes o cuidar de niños que nunca la llamaran abuela. Rebecca necesita adueñarse de su futuro. Y retoma los estudios que abandono el dia de su matrimonio, se apunta a un gimnasio, compra ropa interior de seda, se atreve a descolgar el telefono y a marcar un numero que creia olvidado. Anne Tyler, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y legitima heredera de la gran tradicion de narradores sureños norteamericanos, nos habla en esta novela sobre el valor de los recuerdos y el inmenso coraje que se precisa para volver a escribir toda una vida.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN''S FICTION PRIZEA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKIt was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summers day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Reds father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Reds grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home