Ron Rash

The year is 1929, and newly-weds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire. Serena is new to the mountains - but she soon shows herself the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband''s life in the wilderness. Yet she also learns that she will never bear a child. Serena''s discovery will set in motion a course of events that will change the lives of everyone in this remote community. As the Pembertons'' intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel, this riveting story of love, passion and revenge moves toward its shocking reckoning.

One of the great American authors at work today New York Times ONE OF THE NEW YORKER S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR It is 1951 The close knit community of Blowing Rock North Carolina does not welcome those who are different Jacob Hampton s wealthy parents disinherited him when he married Naomi an uneducated hotel maid Now Jacob has been called up to fight in Korea leaving a pregnant Naomi behind The only person he can trust to take care of her is his lifelong friend Blackburn Gant Blackburn who tends the local cemetery is an outsider too his appearance irrevocably altered by childhood disease Slowly the two outcasts grow closer and as they await news of Jacob s return a terrible shattering act of deception derails all their lives But no secret can stay hidden for ever Tender and luminous with truth The Caretaker is a riveting story about the bonds of friendship the contradictions of family and what it really means to love

George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. But Serena Pemberton is unlike any woman this town has ever seen: overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes and even saving her husband in the wilderness. So when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she is determined that her intensely passionate marriage will not unravel. A course of events unfolds that will change the lives of everyone in their rural community and bring this riveting tale of love and revenge to its shocking reckoning.

ABOVE THE WATERFALL

A finales del siglo XVIII, Kieran Selkirk viaja desde las colonias británicas de Norteamérica a la Rusia de la legendaria Catalina la Grande, en calidad de mercenario, para combatir a los cosacos. Pero, en realidad, lo envía Benjamín Franklin con la misión de evitar que la zarina apoye a los ingleses en el conflicto independentista.

Now a major notion picture starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Rhys Ifans. George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rur

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LA PRIMERA NOVELA DE UN CLÁSICO CONTEMPORÁNEO. LA VOZ MÁS IMPORTANTE DE LA NARRATIVA SUREÑA ESTADOUNIDENSE. Un escritor para escritores que escribe para todo el mundo .áá COLUM MCCANN Repleto de potencia, humanidad y un excepcional don para co