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Un odio profundo contra el modo de vida americano lleva a Allie Fox, un extravagante inventor, a embarcar a su familia en una aventura lejos de la civilización, en la hondureña costa de los mosquitos. Pero su lejano paraíso está lleno de cenagales, insectos y misioneros fanáticos que le enfrentarán a los suyos de una forma lenta y cruel. adaptada al cine con Harrison Ford como protagonista, esta novela recrea a un anti-Robinson Crusoe que no tolera el tiempo en el que vive y fracasa en la búsqueda utópica de alternativas.

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.

El Expreso de la Patagonia fue el último de los trenes que el autor tomó en un periplo ya histórico que comenzó en Boston y llegó hasta el «fin del mundo» en la Tierra de Fuego, recorriendo la espina dorsal del continente americano: México, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, los Andes peruanos, la Pampa argentina… Un viaje a través de los territorios y de sus gentes, lleno de contrastes culturales, climáticos, paisajísticos e históricos…

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.

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!

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?

Mr Bones is a sparkling and darkly humorous collection of short stories by bestselling novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux.A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector gleefully destroys his most valuable pieces. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it's just a matter of time before she turns on him.In this new collection of short stories, Paul Theroux explores the tenuous leadership of the elite and the surprising revenge of the overlooked. He shows us humanity possessed, consumed by its own desires, always with his carefully honed eye and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life.

The story of a love affair between a young man and an older woman in Taormina, Sicily, in the sixties.´ This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it´ He, the narrator, is a twenty-one-year-old American art student travelling the world. She is a countess - apparently cold, haughty and inaccessible. And with her is the doctor Haroun, her gay travelling companion. When he makes their acquaintance at the Palazzo D´Oro, the narrator finds himself filled with unexpected lust and playing a part in something he doesn´t quite understand. Finally, aged sixty, he returns to Taormina to tell his story and confront the present. Filled with Theroux´s typically effortless but devastating depictions of place, The Stranger at the Palazzo D´Oro is a brilliant portrayal of ageing and decay, and a shocking tale of nostalgia and sensuality in a golden age. Echoing the ambiguities of risk and remembered sexuality, the accompanying tales enlarge upon these themes of age and pursuit - the sexual awakening and rites of passage in an American boyhood, the mirror of a writer in Africa at a moment of crisis, and of a man in Hawaii bewitched by dishevelled nymphs. This is a startling chronicle of memory and desire.

Desde El Cairo a Ciudad del Cabo La palabra suajili safari significa viaje; en este sentido Paul Theroux inicia en El Cairo donde se entrevista con Mahfuz y otros intelectuales egipcios un recorrido epico hasta Ciudad del Cabo. El autor cruza el continente africano en trenes, barcos, camiones y autobuses, bajando por el Nilo para adentrarse en Sudan, Etiopia, Kenia y Uganda, hasta Surafrica. Un viaje sentimental por tratarse en parte d un regreso y de exploracion, donde, a medida que avanza, Theroux va descubriendo el alarmante estado de Africa, su pobreza, sus contradicciones y sus escasas posibilidades de salir adelante.

Hotel Honolulu: a run-down hotel teeming with life (most of it low), on an island paradise tarnished by greed and lust. Eighty rooms, eighty stories, and one superbly fresh, scathingly witty new nove

The compelling and erotic story of a love affair between a young man and an older woman in Taormina, Sicily, in the sixties. 'This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it' He, the narrator, is a twenty-one-year-old American art student travelling the world. She is a countess - apparently cold, haughty and inaccessible. And with her is the doctor Haroun, her gay travelling companion. When he makes their acquaintance at the Palazzo D'Oro, the narrator finds himself filled with unexpected lust and playing a part in something he doesn't quite understand. Finally, aged sixty, he returns to Taormina to tell his story and confront the present. Filled with Theroux's typically effortless but devastating depictions of place, The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro is a brilliant portrayal of ageing and decay, and a shocking tale of nostalgia and sensuality in a golden age.

Like his creator, Paul Theroux, the hero of BLINDING LIGHT, Slade Steadman, became famous for a best-selling travel book. In Theroux's case it was THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR, in Steadman's it's TRESPASSING, a book about traveling the world without a passport. Unlike the prolific Theroux, however, Steadman has had writer's block for years. Then he has a sexually charged romance with a doctor named Ava, who accompanies him to Ecuador to introduce him to a powerful hallucinogenic drug that removes his block--but blinds him in the process. Theroux manages to work President Bill Clinton into his exotic story, which is not only a tale of sex and travel, but a meditation on the hubris that can bring down the powerful.

In Two Stars Paul Theroux explores the significance of two of the twentieth century's most celebrated stars - Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe.