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The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness. "Stunning...exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful." (Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times). "An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror." (Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian). "Magnificently stimulating and exciting." (Anthony Burgess).

"Suave and accomplished . . . [The stories] are unsettling, resistant to tidy denouement and faintly misanthropic." -- "Washington Post" "Beneath the deceptive elegance of these stories, land mines lurk, and Theroux detonates them with gusto." -- "O, the Oprah Magazine" A family watches their patriarch transform into the singing, wisecracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector publicly destroys his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by as their father wages war on the raccoons living under their house. In this new collection, acclaimed author Paul Theroux shows us humanity possessed, consumed by compulsive desire, always with his carefully honed eye for detail and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life. Searing, dark, and sure to unsettle, "Mr. Bones" is a stunning display of Theroux's "fluent, faintly sinister powers of vision and imagination" ("The New Yorker"). "Fans of Theroux's fiction will be pleased to observe, in the twenty stories collected in "Mr. Bones, " clear evidence of how little he has mellowed over time . . . "Mr. Bones" is a series of characteristically dark and sharply focused snapshots from the world that Paul Theroux has observed--and invented." -- Francine Prose, "New York Times Book Review"

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 Orient Express The Khyber Pass Local the Delhi Mail from Jaipur the Golden Arrow of Kuala the Trans-Siberian Express these are just some of the trains steaming through authors epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This title tells the trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies.

In this modern version of the Grand Tour, Paul Theroux sets off from Gibralter, one of the Pillars of Hercules, his destination the southern pillar. Instead of crossing the straits, he chose to travel the long way, up the coast of Spain along the Riviera, and by ferry to Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and beyond - way beyond, avoiding the cross-fire of Croatia, through the near anarchy of Albania and on to a ship through the Levant with 100 Turks. It is a long and lively trip, some of it in search of Waugh's labels, Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night" and the landmarks of "The Odyssey".

Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been caught and brought back. And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico.Moving through the deserts just south of the Arizona border, Theroux finds a place brimming with charm, yet visibly marked by both the US border patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. Attending local language and culinary schools, driving through the country and meeting its people, Paul Theroux gets under the skin of Mexico.From the writer praised for his 'curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms' (New York Times Book Review), On The Plain of Snakes is an urgent and mesmerising exploration of a region in conflict.

En una calurosa mañana de verano, los habitantes de Chicago despiertan con la noticia de que un peligroso asesino, al que llaman «Hombre-Lobo», anda suelto por la ciudad. Sus víctimas femeninas aparecen atadas y horriblemente desgarradas. La policía no tiene pistas. En un acomodado suburbio de la ciudad, Parker Jagoda, abogado de éxito en el Loop (centro neurálgico de Chicago), vive aparentemente feliz con su esposa y su hijo. Lo que su mujer ignora de él es que ha estado poniendo anuncios en las páginas de mensajes «personales» en el Chicago Reader requiriendo a una SWF (Single White Female), o sea a una mujer blanca soltera ; lo que sí sabe de él es que necesita animar a veces su vida sexual dentro del matrimonio con ciertos caprichos que ella no tiene inconveniente en satisfacer. Pero, al parecer, Parker Jagoda necesita siempre más. ¡Si esta inquietante historia sobre la culpabilidad y el remordimiento le parece «ya leída», le advertimos que no se deje engañar por las apariencias !

'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

Cuando la pequeña Jilly Farina llega sola a la feria del condado y entra en la carpa donde Millroy, el mago, hace milagros, no puede imaginar hasta qué punto va a cambiar su vida. Fascinada por el mago y sus ojos cambiantes, Jilly le sigue hasta su remolque, donde por fin se siente a la vez maravillada y segura. Millroy le propone que sea su ayudante, enseñarle todo lo que sabe y regalarle un vestido de lentejuelas. Así empieza su incesante vagabundeo por Estados Unidos, donde Millroy irá pregonando, siempre seguido de Jilly, la narradora, nuevos hábitos alimenticios, inspirados en la Biblia —«el libro de la vida, el libro de la alimentación, el libro de los guisos y los milagros»—, a un país puritano, lleno de reservas y prohibiciones. Pero llevado por su propio juego y por la fascinación que ejerce sobre los demás, Millroy pasa pronto de mago de feria a la televisión, donde se convierte en líder de un auténtico culto. Sin embargo, le acecha un peligro que el gran mago parece ignorar

A rich feast of travel writing, literary essays and fascinating interviews from Sunday Times bestselling travel author Paul Theroux''Wonderful... Evidence of both the breadth of Theroux''s interests and his skill in bringing them to life'' Sunday Times CultureDrawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate personal remembrances; from thrilling adventures in Africa to literary writings from Theroux''s rich and expansive personal reading. Collectively these pieces offer a fascinating portrait of the author himself, his extraordinary life, restless and ever-curious mind.''Theroux''s work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged'' Observer''The world''s most perceptive travel writer'' Daily Mail

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.

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

Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country - Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa - he visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and rediscovery - of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years before.

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 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.