John Banville

EL GRAN MAESTRO IRLANDÉS GANADOR DEL PREMIO PRÍNCIPE DE ASTURIAS DE LAS LETRAS, DESLUMBRA CON ESTE MEMOIR Y GUÍA ÍNTIMA DE DUBLÍN Y SUS ARTISTAS. Uno de los 50 mejores libros de 2024 según Babelia. El paseo literario por el que nos guia Banville, siempre entretenidisimo, a traves de las calles y los oscuros pasadizos de Dublin, es para no perderselo. Ya solo las frases valen la entrada.RICHARD FORD El gran maestro irlandes deslumbra con esta joya entre la memoria y la guia intima de Dublin y sus artistas. La alquimia del tiempo posee tantas capas y es tan rica emocionalmente, tan ingeniosa y sorprendente como cualquiera de sus mejores novelas. Para Banville, nacido y criado en un pequeño pueblo cerca de Dublin, la ciudad fue al principio un espacio apasionante, un regalo y, tambien, el lugar donde vivia su querida y excentrica tia. Sin embargo, cuando llego a la mayoria de edad y se instalo alli, se convirtio en el habitual telon de fondo de sus insatisfacciones, y de hecho no tuvo un papel propio en su trabajo hasta la serie de Quirke, escrita como Benjamin Black. Aquella fascinacion infantil permanecio oculta en algun lugar de su memoria. Pero aqui, mientras nos guia por la ciudad, deleitandose con su historia cultural, arquitectonica, politica y social, Banville saca a la luz los recuerdos unidos a lugares y momentos formativos mas importantes. El resultado es un tour maravilloso por Dublin, un elogio tierno y poderoso a una epoca y un lugar que dieron forma a un artista adolescente.La critica ha dicho: En este texto exquisito por la cartografia de la capital irlandesa (parques, edificios, pubs, etcetera) los olores tienen un color preciso, los colores huelen, las voces ademas de oirse se pueden palpar, el tacto de algo libera en los lectores una sensacion olfativa o acustica: es decir, los sentidos mezclan sus propiedades, los aromas se oyen, las voces tienen sabor, estamos ante el milagro de la sinestesia. [] La lectura de este genial texto deja poso, nos hace contemplar esa infancia que no se acaba nunca.Miguel Angel Oeste, El Cultural Con La alquimia del tiempo el efecto es el de despertarse para caer en el mejor de los sueños: acompañar a John Banville (Wexford, 1945) con modales de 'flaneur' mental por calles y rincones favoritos de la Dublin. [] Un libro soñador y despertador. Bienvenidos.Rodrigo Fresan, ABC El gran maestro irlandes deslumbra con esta joya entre la memoria y la guia intima de Dublin y sus artistas. La alquimia del tiempo poseetantas capas y es tan rica emocionalmente, tan ingeniosa y sorprendente como cualquiera de sus mejores novelas.Zenda Unas particulares memorias sobre sus filias literarias y en donde da fe de sus recuerdos y sus arrepentimientos. [...] Unas pausadas reflexiones.Javier Ors, La Razon La belleza reside en cada una de las novelas de John Banville. En sus manos de orfebre tallador de palabras, este mundo extraño, a veces ajeno y siempre misterioso, se vuelve un lugar mas habitable, hermoso, y el lector tiene la sensacion de que al menos en ese transcurrir de paginas la vida merece la pena ser vivida. [...] No hay truco que valga. Banville es puro arte.Ines Martin Rodrigo, ABC Un libro breve pero g...

Un thriller juvenil donde un grupo de estudiantes investiga una serie de mensajes anónimos que revelan secretos peligrosos.

«NUNCA PODRÉ VOLVER A ESCRIBIR UN LIBRO ASÍ. ES COMO TODOS MIS LIBROS UNIDOS EN UNO SOLO» La nueva novela del gran maestro irlandés, ganador de los premios Príncipe de Asturias, Man Booker y Franz K

From John Banville, one of the world''s greatest writers, comes The Blue Guitar, a story of theft and the betrayal of friendship.Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. But we were happy together, simply happy.Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a petty thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of it. HIs worst theft is Polly, the wife of his friend Marcus, with whom he has had an affair. When the affair is discovered, Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home. From here he tells the story of a year, from one autumn to the next. Many surprises and shocks await him, and by the end of his story, he will be forced to face himself and seek a road towards redemption.

En un único volumen dosnovelas inéditas del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letrasjunto a El libro de las pruebas.«Una gran obra en la que cada suave momento detona en voz bajapara mostrar un mort

Una de las grandes novelas de John Banville, Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, basada en la vida de Anthony Blunt, el controvertido espía de la Reina de Inglaterra y del Kremlin«La belleza r

A story of obsessive young love and the power of grief, "Ancient Light" is the best novel yet from the Booker Prize winner of "The Sea". ''Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.'' Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back of his lover''s car on sunny mornings and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor''s own daughter''s suicide ten years before. ''I should like to be in love again, I should like to fall in love again, just once more.'' "Ancient Light'' is the story of a life rendered brilliantly vivid: the obsession and selfishness of young love and the terrifying shock of grief. It is a dazzling novel, funny, utterly pleasurable and devastatingly moving in the same moment. ''He is a master, and his prose gives continuous, sensual delight'' Martin Amis on John Banville John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fourteen previous novels including "The Sea", which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He was recently awarded the Franz Kafka Prize.

One long, languid midsummer?s day, the Godleys gather at the family home of Arden to attend their father?s bedside. Adam, the elder child, and Petra, only nineteen, find that relations with their stepmother, Ursula, and their dying father, old Adam, are as strained as ever. Adam?s relationship with his wife, Helen, seems too on the brink of collapse and Petra, fragile and deeply troubled, finds deepest relief in her own pain.

On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actress; his nineteen-year-old daughter, Petra, filled with voices and visions as she waits for the inevitable; their stepmother, Ursula, whose relations with the Godley children are strained at best; and Petra's "young man"--very likely more interested in the father than the daughter--who has arrived for a superbly ill-timed visit. But the Godley family is not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a family of mischievous immortals--among them, Zeus, who has his eye on young Adam's wife; Pan, who has taken the doughy, perspiring form of an old unwelcome acquaintance; and Hermes, who is the genial and omniscient narrator: "We too are petty and vindictive," he tells us, "just like you, when we are put to it." As old Adam's days on earth run down, these unearthly beings start to stir up trouble, to sometimes wildly unintended effect. . . . Blissfully inventive and playful, rich in psychological insight and sensual detail, "The Infinities" is at once a gloriously earthy romp and a wise look at the terrible, wonderful plight of being human--a dazzling novel from one of the most widely admired and acclaimed writers at work today.

Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband''s shocking, years-long betrayal of her. What should she do now, and which way should she turn, in the emotional labyrinth where she has been trapped for so long? Reawakened by grief and the knowledge of having been grievously wronged, she determines to resume her youthful quest for freedom and independence.Soon Isabel must return to Italy and confront her husband, and seek to break his powerful hold on her. But will she succeed in outwitting him, and securing her revenge?Mrs Osmond is a masterly novel of betrayal, corruption and moral ambiguity, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.

Després de descobrir la traïció del marit, perpetrada durant anys de mentides i farses, Isabel Osmond viatja a Londres per visitar el seu estimat cosí Ralph, que és al llit de mort. Després d''una ex

They leave so little trace, out lost ones.Oliver Orme used to be a painter, well known and well rewarded, but the muse has deserted him. He is also, as he confesses, a thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of possession, the need to capture and fix the world around him. His worst theft is Polly, the wife of his friend Marcus, with whom he has had an affair. When the affair is discovered, Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home and from here he tells the story of a year, from one autumn to the next. In his dazzling delineation of Oliver, John Banville has created one of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: compelling yet weak, desperate for love and yet inclined towards acts of terrible mischief. Set in a reimagined Ireland that is both familiar and deeply unsettling, The Blue Guitar reveals a life haunted by the desire to possess and always aware of the frailty of the human heart.

**THE DROWNED - THE CHILLING NEW STRAFFORD & QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**Addictive.DAILY TELEGRAPHHypnotic.SUNDAY BUSINESS POSTCrime writing of the highest quality.DAILY MAILThe Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirkes most troubling case yet. 1950s Dublin. The body of a young woman is discovered in a lock-up garage, an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play.The victims sister returns from London to help the two men, but, with relations between them increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to events from the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of a hidden puzzle before its too late?Atmospheric and sinister with simmering tension . . . Once you start reading, its impossible to stop.DAILY EXPRESSReaders are loving The Lock-Up: ***** A real page-turner. . . Highly recommend! ***** Crime writing at its finest ***** Quite spectacular! John Banville is a wonderful writer ***** I had an absolute blast reading this novel. I genuinely didnt want it to end.

Dont disturb the dead. On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax - despite the beaches, the cafes and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife.

A captivating, melancholy ghost story will captivate every discerning reader.

A chillingly beautiful novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea.