Eleanor Catton

Las luminarias es una obra de ficción extraordinaria deliciosamente compleja a nivel narrativo, lingüístico y psicológico, además de poseer una estructura inteligente y original. Escrita en un regis

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction. It is full of narrative, linguistic and psychological pleasures, and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement and will confirm for critics and readers that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.

A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. The sudden and total publicity seems to turn every act into a performance and every platform into a stage. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet, and soon the boundaries between private and public begin to dissolve. "The Rehearsal" is an exhilarating and provocative novel about the unsimple mess of human desire, at once a tender evocation of its young protagonists and a shrewd expose of emotional compromise.

«Es imposible comprar entradas para una función como esta y esperar no perder la… inocencia. Es imposible. Tienen que saber a lo que se exponen, ya no son unos niños.»El ensayo general comienza de ve

«Es imposible comprar entradas para una función como esta y esperar no perder la; inocencia. Es imposible. Tienen que saber a lo que se exponen, ya no son unos niños.» El ensayo general comienza de

The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky.

La autora de Las luminarias, galardonadaácon el Premio Booker, nos trae El Bosque Birnam,áun thriller fascinante cargado de fuerza dramáticaáy una visión caleidoscópica de lo que nos motiva a sobrevivir.Un desprendimiento de tierra ha cerrado el paso de Korowai en South Island,aNueva Zelanda, lo que ha aislado a la ciudad de Thorndike y provocado el abandonoade una granja de considerable tamaño. El desastre trae consigo una oportunidadapara el Bosque Birnam, un colectivo clandestino de jardineria, carente deapermisos y ajeno a regulaciones, que a veces tiende a la actividad criminal y otras aala filantropia, dedicado a plantar cultivos en lugares donde pasan desapercibidos.aEl grupo ha atravesado dificultades para subsistir durante años. Ocupar la granjaade Thorndike podria darles la oportunidad de lograr la tan ansiada solvencia.Pero el enigmatico millonario estadounidense Robert Lemoine tambien estaainteresado en la granja: se ha hecho con ella para construirse un bunker conavistas a sobrevivir a un futuro apocaliptico o, al menos, eso es lo que le cuenta aala fundadora de Birnam, Mira, cuando la descubre fisgoneando en la propiedad.aA Lemoine le intrigan Mira y el Bosque Birnam; aunque son polos opuestosadesde el punto de vista

Birnam Wood is on the move...Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned.

Birnam Wood is on the moveA landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealands South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. But they hadnt figured on the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine, who also has an interest in the place. Can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?A propulsive literary thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. It is a brilliantly constructed tale of intentions, actions and consequences, and an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

GANADORA DEL MAN BOOKER PRIZE Un tempestuoso día de enero de 1866, la prostituta Anna Wetherell es arrestada. Un hecho que bien podría pasar desapercibido en mitad de la fiebre del oro que recorre l

NOVELA GANADORA DEL MAN BOOKER PRIZEUn tempestuoso día de enero una prostituta es arrestada. Ese hecho podría pasar desapercibido en mitad de la fiebre del oro que recorre la costa de Nueva Zelanda en el año 1866, si no fuera por los otros tres acontecimientos misteriosos que se producen el mismo dia: se descubre una enorme fortuna en la casa de un borracho indigente, un hombre rico desaparece y un capitan de navio de mala reputacion suspende todos sus tratos y leva anclas, como si pretendiera darse a la fuga. Los tres hombres estan conectados con Anna Wetherell, la prostituta en cuestion. Los doce hombres mas poderosos de la ciudad se reunen en la taberna local para debatir sobre esta secuencia de hechos aparentemente fortuitos, pero su asamblea es interrumpida por la llegada de un extraño: el joven Walter Moody, que tambien esconde su propio secreto Moody pronto se vera involucrado en el misterio: una red de destinos y fortunas que resulta tan compleja y tan bien intrincada como el firmamento nocturno.Las luminarias es una verdadera proeza. Las paginas pasan volando entre los dedos mientras un universo se abre y se cierra ante nosotros y el alma humana se nos revela en toda su desesperacion y su conflicto. The New York Times Book ReviewIrresistible, magistral, fascinante Catton es una maestra del argumento y del ritmo.The Telegraph