Jennifer Egan

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

Dos cosins, marcats a foc per una experiència traumàtica d’infantesa, es reuneixen vint anys després per restaurar un castell medieval mig abandonat perdut en algun punt de l’Europa oriental. Les cos

Danny, que por lo general evita ir a lugares que no disponen de conexión wi-fi, se ve obligado a alejarse por un tiempo de Nueva York. Busca refugio en el castillo que, en algún lugar recóndito de Europa Central, su enigmatico y exitoso primo Howie quiere convertir en un hotel de lujo. La construccion no esconde solo un sofisticado sistema de cuevas y tuneles, sino que guarda tambien muchas otras sorpresas: unos extraños gemelos, un estanque oscuro, una baronesa siniestra, una torre temible. Danny y Howie, marcados por una cruel broma infantil de consecuencias devastadoras, reviven enese singular paraje aquel episodio mientras un preso, encarcelado por haber cometido algo que no se nombra, cuenta una historia en la que pasado y presente establecen una inquietante relacion. En"La torre del homenaje", novela de fascinante arquitectura, Jennifer Egan hila un relato perturbador, de gran tension psicologica, sobre los vinculos entre la imaginacion y los distintos cautiverios de la vida moderna.

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

'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

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

Benni Salazar, un antic rocker punk, s’ha convertit en un magnat de la indústria discogràfica, però la seva noblesa entra en contradicció amb el mercantilisme i el tracte comercial del seu art. Fins

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!

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.

L’Anna Kerrigan, una nena de gairebé dotze anys, acompanya el seu pare a la casa de Manhattan Beach d’en Dexter Styles, un home que ella intueix que és clau per a la supervivència del seu pare i de l

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 doute, seul De

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 ...

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.

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.

Por la autora de"El tiempo es un canalla"(Premio Pulitzer de ficción de 2011)En estos once cuentos –situados en China, Bora Bora, Manhattan, Illinois, México...–, una sugestiva galería de personajes

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

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.