Michael Chabon

En su largo retiro en la campiña inglesa, un anciano de ochenta y nueve años, que según rumorean los lugareños fue años atrás un famoso detective, vive apartado del mundanal ruido. Un día irrumpe en su ordenada vida Linus Steinman, un muchacho mudo que ha escapado de la Alemania nazi con un loro gris como único compañero. ¿Qué significa la misteriosa cadena de números en alemán que el loro repite incesantemente? ¿Acaso esconde un código secreto de las SS, o es un mero sinsentido? La solución de este último caso llevará al viejo sabueso más lejos de lo que jamás imaginó. La solución final, nueva novela del célebre escritor Michael Chabon, reinventa el clásico relato detectivesco decimonónico y lo convierte en una historia de suspense moderna.

En la línea de Scott Fitzgerald, en estas historias aparecen personajes vagamente grotescos, jóvenes matrimonios que bailan y coquetean con extraños en fiestas glamurosas en las que siempre está a punto de suceder algun desastre. Los jovenes hombres lobo que dan nombre a este libro son dos adolescentes cuyos mundos fantasiosos y marginales conectan cuando uno de ellos es expulsado del colegio y el otro se enfrenta al divorcio de sus padres. Entre los jovenes valores de la actual literatura norteamericana, Michael Chabon es probablemente el menos abiertamente experimental y el que mejor conecta con las mejores virtudes del clasicismo de la llamada generacion del The New Yorker, es decir, escritores como Truman Capote, J. D. Salinger o John Cheever .

Gentlemen of the Road is set in the Kingdom of Arran, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, A.D. 950. It tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soul mates, variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves, and flimflam artistsuntil fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles following a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars. Hired as escorts for a fugitive prince, they quickly find themselves half-willing generals in a mad rebellion, struggling to restore the princes family to the throne. As their increasingly outrageous exploits unfold, they encounter a wondrous elephant, wily Rhandanite tradesman, whores, thieves, soldiers, an emperor, and the truth about their young royal charge, whose slender frame conceals a startling secret and a warriors heart.

For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.

En esta magnífica historia, ambientada en el Nueva York de los años 40, dos chicos judíos de Brooklyn crean a un superhéroe del cómic -también judío- capaz de viajar a Europa para acabar con Hitler. La novela narra la historia de Sam y Joe, dos chicos judios de Brooklyn que en los primeros dias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se meten en el negocio de los comics y crean un heroe llamado Escapista, un superheroe judio que viaja a Europa a luchar contra Hitler. En la aluncinante recreacion del Nueva York de los años cuarenta que sigue a continuacion caben el amor, los celos, la bohemia, las reflexiones sobre la creacion y toda una serie de elementos que recrean nuevamente el mundo glamuroso de Chabon, un mundo que nunca deja de ser tierno, optimista ni divertido y que, sorprendentemente, nunca resulta cursi.

By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended

Le district de Sitka, en Alaska, est le nouvel Israël. Y vivent deux millions de Juifs parlant le yiddish. L’inspecteur Meyer Landsman, de la brigade des homicides, est chargé de faire régner la paix

The first novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY

Grady Tripp es un escritor que arrrastra un bloqueo con su monumental novela "Chicos Prodigiosos" en la que lleva trabajando ocho años, sin visos de poner fin. Ejerce como profesor en una pequeña universidad. Se enfrentara al abandono de su tercera esposa, la noticia de que su amante esta embarazada, la fascinacion que provoca en una de sus alumnas, la llegada de su imprevisible editor en busca del termino de su obra y un erratico y talentoso alumno le haran caer en una espiral de acontecimientos durante un alocado fin de semana que le cambiara para siempre.

The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of ''The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'' and ''The Final Solution''. What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska -- and not Israel -- had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In Michael Chabon''s Yiddish-speaking ''Alyeska'', Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the streets of Sitka, where Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin-addled chess prodigy in the flophouse Meyer calls home. Marionette strings stretch back to the hands of charismatic Rebbe Gold, leader of a sect that seems to have drawn its mission statement from the Cosa Nostra -- but behind Rebbe looms an even larger shadow. Despite sensible protests from Berko, his half-Tlingit, half-Jewish partner, Meyer is determined to unsnarl the meaning behind the murder. Even if that means surrendering his badge and his dignity to the chief of Sitka''s homicide unit -- also known as his fearsome ex-wife, Bina. ''The Yiddish Policemen''s Union'' interweaves a homage to the stylish menace of 1940s film noir with a bittersweet fable of identity, home and faith. It is a novel of colossal ambition and heart from one of the most important and beloved writers working today.

The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning ''The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay''What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska - and not Israel - had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In Michael Chabon''s Yiddish-speaking ''Alyeska'', Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the streets of Sitka, where Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin-addled chess prodigy in the flophouse Meyer calls home. Marionette strings stretch back to the hands of charismatic Rebbe Gold, leader of a sect that seems to have drawn its mission statement from the Cosa Nostra - but behind Rebbe looms an even larger shadow... Despite sensible protests from Berko, his half-Tlingit, half-Jewish partner, Meyer is determined to unsnarl the meaning behind the murder. Even if that means surrendering his badge and his dignity to the chief of Sitka''s homicide unit - also known as his fearsome ex-wife, Bina.The Yiddish Policemen''s Union interweaves an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir with a bittersweet fable of identity, home and faith. It is a novel of colossal ambition and heart from one of the most important and beloved writers working today.

Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policeman's Union, offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels. A shy manifesto; an impractical handbook; the true story of a fabulist; an entire life in parts and pieces: Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon.

Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union', offers his first major work of non-fiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels. A shy manifesto; an impractical handbook; the true story of a fabulist; an entire life in parts and pieces: 'Manhood for Amateurs' is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own: as a series of reflections, regrets and re-examinations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past. What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as it goes on being written every day. As a son, a husband, and above all as a father of four young children, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played - on different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in a new key - by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, hilarious and moving, 'Manhood for Amateurs' is destined to become a classic

Meet Awesome Man - a brand new superhero, who's out of this world! The first picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon perfectly captures the fantasy life of young superhero fans. Awesome Man can shoot positronic rays out of his eyeballs, fly as straight as an arrow and hug mutant Jelly! Even villains like Professor Von Evil and the flaming Eyeballs are no match for this caped crusader. But Awesome Man also has his secret! Can you guess what it is?

Em meados do verão de 2004, na fronteira entre Berkeley e Oakland, na Califórnia, os donos da Brokeland Records veem-se diante de uma nova ameaça à sua amada loja de discos. O novo "Negócio" da Dogpi

The keeping of secrets and the telling of lies; sex and desire and ordinary love; existential doubt and model rocketry - all feature in the new novel from the author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policeman's Union. 'The world, like the Tower of Babel or my grandmother's deck of cards, was made out of stories, and it was always on the verge of collapse.' Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he and a buddy set explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? And what did he see in the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the war? From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of 'the American Century', Moonglow collapses an era into a single life and a lifetime into a single week