Kevin Brockmeier

Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life,KevinBrockmeier has been consistently praised for the originality of his vision, the boundlessness of his imagination and the command of his craft. Once again, in this new collection of fiction, Brockmeier shows us a fantastical world that is intimately familiar but somehow distant and beautiful. From the touching title story, where a young, antisocial woman imagines her escape into the sky with an apparition only she can see, to the haunting story of a pastor tempted by something less than divine, Brockmeier moves effortlessly from the extraordinary to the everyday, while challenging us to see the world anew. Stunning, elegant, profound, and playful,The View from the Seventh Layercements Kevin Brockmeier's place as one of the most creative and compassionate writers of his generation.

What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? From best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we bear and the light that radiates from us all. At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination commences. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of a hospital patient and from there through the hands of five other suffering people, touching each of them uniquely. I love the soft blue veins on your wrist. I love your lopsided smile. I love watching TV and shelling sunflower seeds with you. The six recipients—a data analyst, a photojournalist, a schoolchild, a missionary, a writer, and a street vendor—inhabit an acutely observed, beautifully familiar yet particularly strange universe, as only Kevin Brockmeier could imagine it: a world in which human pain is expressed as illumination, so that one's wounds glitter, fluoresce, and blaze with light. As we follow the journey of the book from stranger to stranger, we come to understand how intricately and brilliantly they are connected, in all their human injury and experience.

From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City's only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.

The critically acclaimed, spellbinding novel about life, death and everything that follows.

A Laura Bird el temps se li esta acabant. Fa tres setmanes que ella i dos dels seus col·legues es troben sols en un dels llocs mes freds i remots de la Terra. Els dos homes surten a buscar ajuda i de sobte Laura s?adona que mai mes no tornaran. De manera

A Laura Bird se le está acabando el tiempo. Hace tres semanas que ella y dos de sus colegas se encuentran solos en uno de los lugares más fríos y remotos de la tierra. Los dos hombres parten en busca de ayuda, y de repente Laura se da cuenta de que no van a volver. Así que recoge los pocos víveres que le quedan e inicia un viaje extraordinario. Entretanto, en otro lugar, más y más gente va llegando a una ciudad sin nombre. Cada persona tiene una historia distinta que contar, pero hay algo que todos tienen en común: era su último viaje. Están en la ciudad de los muertos, un lugar en el que permanecerán mientras en la Tierra quede alguien que los recuerde.

Tras la desaparición de su hija Celia, de siete años, Christopher Brooks, escritor de libros de fantasía y ciencia ficción se aísla de todos los

Tres científicos, dos hombres y una mujer, quedan aislados en la Antártida. Los hombres parten en busca de ayuda y Laura se queda esperando, pero pasa el tiempo y se da cuenta de que ellos no van a volver. Asi que decide emprender su propio viaje, un periplo que la llevara a la ciudad de los muertos, un lugar en el que solo sobreviven los que tienen a alguien en la Tierra que los recuerde.