Colum McCann

Un conflicto perpetuo. Dos familias de bandos enfrentados. Un mismo dolor.Rami Elhanan y Bassam Aramin viven cerca el uno del otro, pero existen en mundos separados. Rami es israelí. Bassam es palestino. La matricula de Rami es amarilla. La de Bassam es verde. Rami tarda quince minutos en llegar a Cisjordania. El mismo viaje para Bassam dura una hora y media.Ambos hombres han perdido a sus hijas. La de Rami murio a manos de un terrorista suicida, la de Bassam fue asesinada a tiros por un miembro de la policia fronteriza frente a su escuela. Protagonistas de un desafio tan desgarrador como esperanzador, los dos hombres se convertiran en grandes amigos y el dolor compartido conseguira que abran una poderosa via al entendimiento de los otros.Esta conmovedora novela lleva el nombre de un poligono que tiene un numero infinito de caras: este es el enfoque que adopta McCann para abordar una realidad tragica que necesariamente debe reflejarse desde distintos angulos, que nunca podra reducirse a un unico relato.

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Un libro imprescindible para todos los que aspiran a convertirse en escritor. Una clase magistral para aplicar en el arte y en la vida.De la mano de Colum McCann, ganador del National Book Award y profesor de escritura creativa en Nueva York, llega el perfecto regalo para los amantes de los libros. De una forma fascinante y motivacional, este libro es una llamada a mirar el mundo con ojos de escritor. Una oda al poder del lenguaje, un testimonio tan feroz como honesto de las marcas que deja la escritura como profesion, una invitacion a los aspirantes a escritores a aprender las reglas pero tambien a romperlas. Estos 50 ensayos son, en ultima instancia, un desafio y un estimulo para que una nueva generacion de escritores encuentre algo de verdad y de luz en el oscuro mundo del arte.

Un pequeño paso para un hombre... Celebrando el mayor triunfo de la exploración espacial Para conmemorar el 40 aniversario del histórico alunizaje del Apolo 11, TASCHEN ha emparejado este texto capital de Norman Mailer con espectaculares fotografias, documentacion y apuntes de los archivos de la NASA, para crear un homenaje unico a la mision cientifica que ha definido nuestra era. Ha sido llamado el acontecimiento historico puntual mas importante del siglo XX: el 20 de julio de 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin y Michael Collins cumplieron con el llamamiento de John F. Kennedy de un alunizaje tripulado para fines de los años 1960. Una decada de pruebas y entrenamiento, un equipo de 400.000 ingenieros y cientificos, un presupuesto de 24.000 millones de dolares y el cohete mas potente jamas lanzado, todo combinado en un evento sin precedentes contemplado por millones de personas alrededor del mundo. Y nadie capto los hombres, los animos y la maquinaria como Norman Mailer. Uno de los mayores escritores del siglo XX, Norman Mailer fue contratado por la revista LIFE en 1969 para cubrir el lanzamiento lunar. Su articulo en tres partes era la pieza mas larga de no ficcion que nunca hubiera publicado la revista. Luego el autor amplio y optimizo su reportaje al profundizar sus reflexiones en el libro Un fuego en la luna, brillantemente redactado y extractado aqui por primera vez. Inclinado por igual a examinar la ciencia del viaje espacial y la psicologia de los hombres involucrados en ella -desde el ingeniero del cohete Saturno V Wernher von Braun al vital equipo de apoyo de la NASA y los tres astronautas-, Mailer brinda interioridades provocadoras y mordaces de este hito que ha hecho epoca. Edicion limitada y numerada de 1957 ejemplares. Cada ejemplar incluye una fotografia enmarcada en polimetilmetacrilato, numerada, lista para colgar y con calidad de archivo, reproducida utilizando la revolucionaria tecnica de impresion Skia y firmada por Buzz Aldrin.

Al amanecer de una mañana de finales de verano, los habitantes de la parte baja de Manhattan miraban absortos hacia lo alto de las Torres Gemelas. Estamos en agosto de 1974 y una minúscula y enigmática figura camina en inverosimil equilibrio sobre un cable entre ambos edificios.Y abajo, en la bulliciosa y violenta Nueva York de la decada de los setenta, los destinos de varios personajes se cruzaran y sus vidas aparentemente ordinarias cambiaran para siempre: un sacerdote irlandes que lucha contra sus demonios y vive entre prostitutas en pleno Bronx , un grupo de madres que se reunen para llorar a sus hijos muertos en Vietnam, una artista que sera testigo de un accidente que la marcara para siempre, una joven abuela que ayuda a su hija adolescente mientras trata de demostrarse a si misma que su vida tiene sentidoObra ganadora del National Book Award Una de las mas electrizantes y profundas novelas en años. Un tour de force emocional. Un libro sobrecogedor. The New York Times Ningun novelista que ha escrito sobre Nueva York ha llegado a tal altura, a tal profundidad. Frank McCourt

The acclaimed author of "Dancer" and "This Side of Brightness" delivers a sensuous novel about exile, belonging, and survival, based loosely on the true story of the Romani poet Papsuza. It spans the 20th century and travels the breadth of Europe.

En 1944, dans un hôpital soviétique, Rudik, six ans, danse pour son premier public : aucun des soldats mutilés n'oubliera cet instant éblouissant.Dès lors, ce fils de paysan sait. Il sait qu'

Nova York, agost de 1974. Hi ha un home que camina al cel i la ciutat ha quedat paralitzada. L'equilibrista fa grans gambades sobre la corda fluixa, fa giragonses i el pavero mentre passa d'una de les Torres Bessones acabades d'estrenar a l'altra. Sota seu, les vides de vuit estranys s'entrecreuen les unes amb les altres... En Corrigan, un monjo irlandès d'esquerres que treballa al Bronx amb un grup de prostitutes; la Claire, una vídua de l'Upper East Side commocionada per la mort del seu fill a Vietnam; en Solomon, el marit de la Claire, un jutge cínic que es dedica a fotre delinqüents de pa sucat amb oli en un tribunal dels downtown; Lara, una artista jove que lluita contra l'addicció a les drogues i un matrimoni liquidat; en Fernando, un fotògraf underground de 13 anys que retrata graffiti; la Gloria, sòlida i orgullosa malgrat anys de dificultats; la Tillie, una puta valenta que havia somiat dur una vida millor... Obra guanyadora del National Book Award 2009.

New York, 1974. The magnificent twin towers are unveiled to the world, and the consensus is that they are ugly compared to the splendid sky-scrapers that grace the New York skyline (the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Centre etc). But, a marvelous feat from an athlete, Philippe Petit, almost changes the perception. Petit walked across a tightrope between the towers - he danced, he entertained, he wowed, and he enjoyed himself thoroughly, as the New Yorkers below looked up in awe, wondering if the man dancing with the clouds was suicidal, crazy, or if he had some perfectly legitimate reason to be doing what he was. After all, it's not often, you see someone dancing with the clouds.

In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. In 1845 Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. And in 1998 Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. Stitching these stories intricately together, Colum McCann sets out to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.

Eighty pieces of short fiction and nonfiction on manhood by some of the world's best writers. To help launch the literary nonprofit Narrative 4, Esquire asked eighty of the world's greatest writers to chip in with a story, all with the title, "How to Be a Man." The result is The Book of Men, an unflinching investigation into the essence of manhood.

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached? 1845. Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. On his travels he inspires a young maid to go to New York to embrace a free world, but the land does not always fulfill its promises for her. From the violent battlefields of the Civil War to the ice lakes of northern Missouri, it is her youngest daughter Emily who eventually finds her way back to Ireland. Nominated for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.

As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Upper East Side apartment. Old and frail, he is entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer, and as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirs memories of the past; of his childhood in Lithuania and Dublin, of his distinguished career as a judge, and of his late wife, Eileen. Later he leaves the house to meet his son Elliot for lunch, and when Eliot departs mid-meal, Mendelssohn continues eating alone as the snow falls heavily outside.Moments after he leaves the restaurant he is brutally attacked. The detectives working on the case search through the footage of Mendelssohn's movements, captured by cameras in his home and on the street. Their work is like that of a poet: the search for a random word that, included at the right instance, will suddenly make sense of everything.Told from a multitude of perspectives, in lyrical, hypnotic prose, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a ground-breaking novella of true resonance. Accompanied by three equally powerful stories set in Afghanistan, Galway and London, this is a tribute to humanity's search for meaning and grace, from a writer at the height of his form, capable of imagining immensities even in the smallest corners of our lives.

A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing. It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Upper East Side apartment. Old and frail, he is entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer, and as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirs memories of the past; of his childhood in Lithuania and Dublin, of his distinguished career as a judge, and of his late wife, Eileen. Later he leaves the house to meet his son Elliot for lunch, and when Eliot departs mid-meal, Mendelssohn continues eating alone as the snow falls heavily outside. Moments after he leaves the restaurant he is brutally attacked. The detectives working on the case search through the footage of Mendelssohn's movements, captured by cameras in his home and on the street. Their work is like that of a poet: the search for a random word that, included at the right instance, will suddenly make sense of everything. Told from a multitude of perspectives, in lyrical, hypnotic prose, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a ground-breaking novella of true resonance. Accompanied by three equally powerful stories set in Afghanistan, Galway and London, this is a tribute to humanity's search for meaning and grace, from a writer at the height of his form, capable of imagining immensities even in the smallest corners of our lives.

Rentrée littéraire 2020 Apeirogon, n.m. : figure géométrique au nombre infini de côtés. Rami Elhanan est israélien, fils d'un rescapé de la Shoah, ancien soldat de la guerre du Kippour ; Bassam Ar

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Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Rami's license plate is yellow. Bassam's license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half.Both men have lost their daughters. Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member of the border police outside her school. There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn't had time to eat yet.The men become the best of friends.In this epic novel - named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides - Colum McCann crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature and politics into a tapestry of friendship, love, loss and belonging. Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is the novel for our times.'A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart' KAMILA SHAMSIE

A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing. It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Upper East Side apartment. Old and frail, he is entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer, and as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirs memories of the past; of his childhood in Lithuania and Dublin, of his distinguished career as a judge, and of his late wife, Eileen. Later he leaves the house to meet his son Elliot for lunch, and when Eliot departs mid-meal, Mendelssohn continues eating alone as the snow falls heavily outside. Moments after he leaves the restaurant he is brutally attacked. The detectives working on the case search through the footage of Mendelssohn's movements, captured by cameras in his home and on the street. Their work is like that of a poet: the search for a random word that, included at the right instance, will suddenly make sense of everything. Told from a multitude of perspectives, in lyrical, hypnotic prose, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a ground-breaking novella of true resonance. Accompanied by three equally powerful stories set in Afghanistan, Galway and London, this is a tribute to humanity's search for meaning and grace, from a writer at the height of his form, capable of imagining immensities even in the smallest corners of our lives