Jennifer Egan

Un retrato tragicómico y nostálgico de la industria musical estadounidense desde los años sesenta hasta hoy.Premio Pulitzer Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer (2011) y elegida como uno de los mejores libros de la decada por la revista Time, esta novela esta compuesta por trece historias interconectadas que giran alrededor de la vida de Bennie Salazar, antiguo rockero punk envejecido y ejecutivo discografico, y Sasha, su apasionada y problematica asistente. Una historia generacional con multiples caidas que abordan desde la contracultura de San Francisco en los años setenta hasta el hastio de los noventa y la incertidumbre posterior al 11S. Con la musica palpitando en cada pagina, Egan muestra los efectos del tiempo y la tecnologia en las personas, asi como las transformaciones que provocan en nuestras vidas.La critica ha dicho:"Una magistral novela en la que Egan cuenta, jugando con el tiempo pasado, el presente y el futuro, una adictiva historia sobre las derivas e implicaciones del mundo digital, la tecnologia y las redes".Informacion "Una novela rica e inolvidable sobre la decadencia y la resistencia, sobre individuos en un mundo quecambia a su alrededor... [Egan] es una de las escritoras con mas talen

Uno de los 10 mejores libros del año según The New York Times. La culminación de un gran proyecto narrativo iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer) La casa de caramelo, que culmina el ambicioso proyecto narrativo de Jennifer Egan iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer en 2011), cuenta la historia de Bix Bouton, un brillante empresario informatico en horas bajas que acaba patentando una exitosa herramienta tecnologica que permite acceder a nuestros recuerdos y compartirlos, y que ha seducido a miles de personas. Con una asombrosa variedad de recursos narrativos, Egan pone el foco en el mundo digital y de las redes sociales y nos cuenta la historia de diversos personajes que buscan una conexion real en un mundo cada vez mas digitalizado e hiperconectado.La critica ha dicho:"Un trepidante paseo polifonico por Estados Unidos en las garras de una tecnologia que permite a los demas introducirse en tu mente".Margaret Atwood "Una novela compleja para un mundo complejo e hiperconectado. [...] Una novela que se ajusta a la epoca como un guante, sin renunciar a lo importante: la literatura".El Mundo "Una autentica golosina".El Periodico"Un festin li

Manhattan Beach: by Jennifer Egan | Conversation StartersManhattan Beach is the most recent work of art from author Jennifer Egan. Leaving behind her normal style of writing, Jennifer effectively depicts the World War II era from the points of view of a very strong young lady, her father, and his boss. Primarily following the journey of Anna Kerrigan, from childhood through adulthood, Manhattan Beach brings to life a vivid read of the mob, corruption, luck, love, hope and more.One of Amazons Best Books of October 2017, this historical novel brings darkness and light together in an epic story readers wont soon forget. Long listed for the National Book Award for Fiction before it was even released to the public, this is one novel that has future award winner written all over it.A Brief Look Inside:EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPERthan the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,and the characters and its world still live on.Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed tobring us beneath the surface of the pageand invite us into the world that lives on.These questions can be used to..Create Hours of Conversation: Foster a deeper understanding of the book Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before

A vingt ans, Anna est fermement décidée à retrouver son père. Disparu cinq ans plus tôt dans d'étranges circonstances, la jeune femme sent qu'il est en vie quelque part. Anna n'a aucun do

'This is a novel that will pull you in and under and carry you away on its rip tides . . . Its resonances continue to wash over the reader long after the novel ends' the Guardian'2017's Most Anticipated Book . . . it will suck you into its orbit and remind you just why it is you love reading' Stylist magazine'This is a novel that deserves to join the canon of New York stories' New York Times Book ReviewThe long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression.'We're going to see the sea,' Anna whispered. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan's first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.'Beautifully rendered . . . genuinely affecting and handsomely constructed. It moves for all the right reasons' Independent 'A gripping, modern version of a 19th century novel . . . such an absorbing read' Evening Standard

Enfants, Danny et Howie ont partagé les mêmes jeux, jusqu’à ce que Danny trahisse Howie. Vingt ans plus tard, les rôles ont changé : Howie a fait fortune alors que Danny accumule les échecs. Ce derni

The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression.Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles.Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered.Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan's first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.

Punkrock, Sex, Kokain, Therapiesitzungen, Ehebruch, Smartpad-Wahn, die Auswuchse digitaler Kommunikation (NeuR job in sicht, $$$ Rlich?), Euphorie, Verzweiflung, Tattoos, die spater wie zerfressene Polster uber eingefallene Bizeps und Hangearsche sacken das ist nur eine kleine Auswahl der Themenvielfalt dieses bemerkenswerten Romans. Jedes der Kapitel funktioniert auch als eine eigenstandige Kurzgeschichte, die jeweils aus der Perspektive einer Figur erzahlt wird, die hauptsachlich oder am Rande mit den zentralen Charakteren in Verbindung steht. Sie erzahlen und verschwinden, tauchen jedoch haufig in anderen Kapiteln wieder auf. Bennie spielte in seiner Jugend in einer Rockband, wurde spater Musikproduzent, Sash ist seine Assistentin, Lou sein Mentor, Mindy dessen neue Freundin, Rolph Lous Sohn die Liste ist lang. Doch in schlafwandlerischer Sicherheit wechselt die Erzahlstimme virtuos Perspektive, Zeit und Raum, ohne den Leser zu verwirren. Die Geschichten sind so stark, dass man sich ergriffen, besturzt und gebannt dem Zwang des Weiterlesens nicht entziehen kann. Kein Wunder, dass dieser Roman den Pulitzer-Preis erhalten hat!

At the start of this edgy and multilayered novel, a model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident with her face shattered. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable. With the surreal authority of David Lynch, Egan threads Charlotte's narrative with those of other casualties of infatuation with the image.

After twenty years apart, two cousins reunite in Eastern Europe to renovate a medieval castle. The cousins are irrevocably bound to one another through the shared experience of their youth, when a childhood prank with devastating consequences changed both their lives forever. In an environment of desolation, isolation and paranoia, the cousins are falling under the gothic spell of the castle and its violent history. The crimes of the past and present are about to collide, and with unthinkable results ...

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student...CONTINÚA

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house-and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, revelling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardour for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang-who thrived and who faltered-and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall.

Una trama hipnótica y una heroína inolvidable. Una novela rotunda, destinada por derecho propio a ingresar en el selecto club de las mejores obras literarias de nuestro tiempo.La escasez de mano de obra causada por la segunda guerra mundial genero un vacio que propicio que las mujeres norteamericanas dieran un paso adelante y ocuparan los puestos reservados a los hombres. Aquella transformacion social sin precedentes es el nucleo de estainconmensurable novela de Jennifer Egan, su primera obra de ficcion desde que gano el Premio Pulitzer con El tiempo es un canalla en 2011.Alejandose de la emblematica Nueva York de los rascacielos, la autora traslada el foco a la primigenia ciudad portuaria, la de los muelles del West Side y los astilleros de Brooklyn, un mundo saturado de salitre y yodo en el que pululan gentes de toda laya que viven del mar. Alli, en ese abigarrado universo de luchadores solitarios, se desarrollan las vidas de Eddie Kerrigan, un empresario del espectaculo castigado por la gran depresion; su hija Anna, una joven audaz y combativa; y Dexter Styles, un tipo seductor que se codea con las elites neoyorquinas gracias a su matrimonio con una mujer de rancio abolengo.Los recuerdos de Anna arrancan un dia de invierno, a sus casi doce años, cuando acompaña a su padre a una lujosa mansion de Manhattan Beach para una cita con Dexter. Tras el encuentro, Anna intuye que la misteriosa corriente que fluye entre los dos hombres determinara su futuro. Al cabo del tiempo, despues de que Eddie desapareciese sin dar explicaciones y ella lograse hacer realidad su sueño de ser una de las pioneras en enfundarse una escafandra y participar en peligrosas misiones submarinas, un fortuito encuentro con Styles supone un punto de inflexion en la vida de Anna. A partir de entonces, esta empieza a entrever la compleja y dramatica historia de su padre y las posibles razones de su ausencia.La critica ha dicho... Ver las cosas con los ojos de Jennifer Egan es alcanzar una nueva vision del mundo. No conozco a ningun escritor en activo mejor que ella. George SaundersUn libro apasionante, de una intensidad inesperada, que transportara y transformara al lector, convirtiendolo en un buzo en las profundidades, en buscador de respuestas, esperanza y ascension.BooklistJennifer Egan es la mejor novelista norteamericana actual.TimeAbsolutamente solida y rica, combina escenas de violencia y crimen con otras de una profunda ternura. El emotivo poder de este libro demuestra una vez mas las extraordinarias dotes de Egan.Publishers WeeklyUna escritora deslumbrantemente ingeniosa.The GuardianDespues de llevar al extremo los limites de la ficcion [...] Egan hace quiza lo unico que aun no habia hecho hasta ahora: escribir una novela tradicional con detallesrealistas, intensidad poetica y totalmente creible: no hay nada que Egan no sea capaz de hacer.Kirkus ReviewsUn apasionante libro de los de antes que rebosa maestria. [...] Una obra magica. Dwight Garner, The New York TimesManhattan Beach nos sumerge en sus oscuros e inescrutables abismos, en ese territorio donde se esconden las verdades mas profundas.VoxUna epopeya que capta de manera impresionante la esencia de un pais, Estados Unidos, al borde del triunfo y del triunfalismo.Bookforum

Uno de los 10 mejores libros del año según The New York Times. La culminación de un gran proyecto narrativo iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer)La casa de caramelo, que culmina el ambicioso proyecto narrativo de Jennifer Egan iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer en 2011), cuenta la historia de Bix Bouton, un brillante empresario informatico en horas bajas que acaba patentando una exitosa herramienta tecnologica que permite acceder a nuestros recuerdos y compartirlos, y que ha seducido a miles de personas. Con una asombrosa variedad de recursos narrativos, Egan pone el foco en el mundo digital y de las redes sociales y nos cuenta la historia de diversos personajes que buscan una conexion real en un mundo cada vez mas digitalizado e hiperconectado.La critica ha dicho: Un trepidante paseo polifonico por Estados Unidos en las garras de una tecnologia que permite a los demas introducirse en tu mente. Margaret AtwoodUna novela compleja para un mundo complejo e hiperconectado. [...] Una novela que se ajusta a la epoca como un guante, sin renunciar a lo importante: la literatura.El MundoUna autentica golosina.El PeriodicoUn festin literario.El Periodico de Extremadura¿Ha escrito Jennifer Egan la Gran Novela Americana de la era de las redes sociales? [...] La casa de caramelo permanece fiel a ese peculiar estilo poliedrico con el que Egan consigue adaptar la forma al contenido de una era de la dispersion.The ObjectiveLa casa de caramelo y El tiempo es un canalla son las novelas neoyorquinas y tecnologicas mas importantes de nuestro tiempo.The New York TimesUna hazaña increible. [...] Que empiece el culto.New York Times Book ReviewTrasciende mundos y dimensiones mientras examina lo que ocurre cuando nuestros recuerdos se ponen a disposicion del consumo de otros. [...] Una lectura compleja y convincente que muestra el talento narrativo de Egan.TIMECompuesta por piezas cortas interconectadas, [...] esta unida por la omnipresencia de una tecnologia de ciencia ficcion que no parece tan alejada de nuestra realidad actual.VOGUEUna brillante demostracion de los placeres incuantificables de la gran ficcion.The Washington PostEl mejor libro de Jennifer Egan hasta la fecha.Publishers WeeklyUna novela contundente y fragmentada sobre un futuro aterradoramente posible.Library JournalUna hermosa indagacion sobre la perdida, la memoria y la historia, una critica sobre lo que se pierde cuando vivimos nuestras vidas en linea.The San Francisco ChronicleProfundo. Egan explora con brillantez las vidas interconectadas de quienes abrazan la tecnologia y de quienes la rechazan por completo. Hipnotico.PeopleUna obra de ficcion especulativa maravillosa y de gran inventiva.BooklistTan apasionante y estimulante que exige ser leida y releida.Kirkus Reviews

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUADA Time Magazine Must-Read'A complex, compelling read that showcases Egan's masterful storytelling' TIME'A dazzling feat of literary construction' VOGUEFrom one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own--featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad.It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalising" memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious--that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others--has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.In spellbinding linked narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling and extraordinarily moving, The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. With a focus on social media, gaming, and alternate worlds, you can almost experience moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. Egan takes her "deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture" (Vogue) to stunning new heights and delivers a fierce and exhilarating testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption.

The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is one of those tech demi-gods with whom were all on a first name basis. Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or externalizing memory. Within a decade, Bixs new technology, Own Your Unconsciouswhich allows you access to every memory youve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of othershas seduced multitudes.In the world of Egans spectacular imagination, there are counters who track and exploit desires and there are eluders, those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative stylesfrom omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love.

En plena crisis de madurez, Bennie Salazar, que en los setenta formó parte de una banda de punk y ahora es un alto ejecutivo de la decadente industria discográfica, se echa copos de oro en el café para recuperar el apetito sexual. Sasha, su asistente después de haber viajado mucho y no siempre en circunstancias felices, se trata de su cleptomanía con un psicoanalista que viste jerséis estrambóticos. En torno a ellos se despliega una variopinta red de personajes, desde una relaciones públicas que intenta lavarle la cara a un general genocida hasta un eriodista que ha estado en prisión por abusar de una estrella de cine adolescente. Con el rock palpitando en cada una de sus páginas, El tiempo es un canalla es un entramado fascinador que pasa por lugares como Nueva York, San Francisco, Kenia, Nápoles o el desierto de California, y cubre un período que va de los años setenta hasta el 2020. La mirada punzante de Jennifer Egan aúna lo cómico y lo trágico, y consigue que los fragmentos de tiempos y espacios dispersos converjan en una novela polifónica e innovadora que recurre a técnicas narrativas insólitas para acabar trazando un lúcido retrato de la era digital. JENNIFER EGAN es autora de The Keep, Look