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John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diegoa fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexicohas a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what''s comingspecifically, her own future and her brother''s. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn''t know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you.Lupe doesn''t know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the futureespecially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future?As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow oldermost of all, in what we remember and what we dreamwe live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the pastin Mexicocollides with his future.

Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweighta fact not lost on Utch, a lovely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin''s underweight wife. A bizarre menage a quatre is the result of these convoluted desires as Irving blends farce and tragedy in another bubbling, brilliant novel.

Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend''s mother. Owen doesn''t believe in accidents; he believes that he is God''s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.

Seuls depuis la fuite de William, un organiste qui collectionne les conquêtes féminines et les tatouages, Alice et son fils partent pour l''Amérique. L''enfant grandit entre filles à matelots, chaste

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller.

"AN OLD-FASHIONED, BIG-HEARTED NOVEL . . . with its epic yearning caught in the 19th century, somewhere between Trollope and Twain . . . The rich detail makes for vintage Irving." The Boston Sunday Globe "The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for. . . . The characters in John Irving''s novel break all the rules, and yet they remain noble and free-spirited. Victims of tragedy, violence, and injustice, their lives seem more interesting and full of thought-provoking dilemmas than the lives of many real people." The Houston Post "John Irving''s sixth and best novel . . . He is among the very best storytellers at work today. At the base of Irving''s own moral concerns is a rare and lasting regard for human kindness." The Philadelphia Inquirer "Entertaining and affecting . . . John Irving is the most relentlessly inventive writer around. He proliferates colorful incidents and crotchets of character. . . . A truly astounding amount of artistry and ingenuity." The San Diego Union

Un escritor de novelas históricas relata el ménage à quatre que se organiza entre él, su esposa, la fornida Utch, un profesor de alemán y lucha libre y la mujer de éste, aspirante a escritora. Y en medio de este intercambio de parejas van apareciendo los temas favoritos de Irving, tratados con un humor corrosivo: el deporte como metáfora de la vida erótica, Viena y la vieja Europa como contraste con los Estados Unidos, la prostitución, la violación, el adulterio, la escritura y el aprendizaje de la vida.

Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder, a man or rare compassion and with an addiction to ether.

Nacida para sustituir, en cierto modo, a sus dos hermanos muertos en un accidente, Ruth Cole vive una infancia especial cuando su madre, Marion, abandona el hogar tras una tórrida aventura con un jovencito. A sus treinta y seis años, Ruth se ha convertido en una escritora de exito, y, pese a su personalidad compleja, cuatro años despues no solo se ha casado, sino que tiene un hijo, enviudada y, por si fuera poco, se enamora por primera vez. Lo que no podia prever era la reaparicion de la inquietante Marion.