Paul Theroux

This novel is one of his finest in a long and redoubtable oeuvre William Boyd New York Times From renowned author Paul Theroux comes a fascinating atmospheric novel inspired by George Orwell s years in Burma There is a short period in everyone s life when his character is fixed forever George OrwellEric Blair stood out amongst his fellow police trainees in 1920s Burma Nineteen years old unusually tall a diffident loner fresh from Eton after five years spent in the narrow colonial world of the Raj a decaying system steeped in overt racism and petty class conflict he would emerge as the George Orwell we know Drawing on all his powers of observation and imagination Paul Theroux brings Orwell s Burma years to radiant life tracing the development of the young man s consciousness as he confronts the social racial and class politics and the reality of Burma beyond Through one writer we come to understand another and see how what Orwell called five boring years within the sound of bugles were in fact the years that made him One of John Irving s best books of the 21st century Thoroughly enjoyable Theroux s approach is like that of a skilful subtle barrister who patiently lays out his evidence gradually ensnaring the reader Times Literary

India: un país donde muchas personas pueden perder, e incluso para encontrar un país en sí. Los personajes de Paul Therouxs nuevo libro impresionante experiencia, y descubra un moderno, ambicioso y caótica India. Una fresca, convincente y, a menudo, concepto inspirador de la India Otra magnífica, de gran alcance bestselling libro de la autora!

Contemporary / American English (Available May 2008) Allie Fox hates the United States and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to find a new, simpler way of living. But things go wrong, and their lives become much worse and more frightening than anything back home.

Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux once again sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is an absorbing and beautifully written follow-up to The Great Railway Bazaar. Full of life and impeccably evoked, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is Paul Theroux at his very best.

When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writers block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her sons, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die _ and will this writer, whom Mrs Unger claims to admire, find out what really happened?

Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer''s block. When he receives a letter from an American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son''s, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How did he die? And why?

A darkly hilarious portrait of one dysfunctional American family and its scheming matriarch.Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood.Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family -- the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind.

Allie Fox was going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, scavengers and funny-bunnies of the twentieth century, he abandons civilization and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, quixotic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness and terror.

'Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour' Stephen King A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writers Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood. Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family -- the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind. 'Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose' Guardian 'Funny and wonderfully mean spirited' Saturday Review 'The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well' Herald

Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - "The Great Railway Bazaar" - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his generation. Now Theroux makes the trip all over again. Through Eastern Europe, India and Asia to discover the changes that have swept the continents, and also to learn what an old man will make of a young man''s journey. "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" is a brilliant chronicle of change and an exploration of how travel is ''the saddest of pleasures''.

Offers the reader insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots.