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Narrativa, Salamandra
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 23 cm
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La casa de caramelo, que culmina el ambicioso proyecto narrativo de Jennifer Egan iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer en 2011), cuenta la historia de Bix Bouton, un brillante empresario informatico en horas bajas que acaba patentando una exitosa herramienta tecnologica que permite acceder a nuestros recuerdos y compartirlos, y que ha seducido a miles de personas. Con una asombrosa variedad de recursos narrativos, Egan pone el foco...
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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
4) Suttree
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 21 cm.
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The story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there - a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters - he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
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Seis Barral (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
788 pages. ; 24 cm
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¿C̤mo llegamos a conocernos? ¿Qǔ significan los otros en nuestras vidas? Asle, un pintor viudo que vive solo en un fiordo noruego, observa su vida entera con la mirada fija en el flujo del mar. No se trata de la nostalgia de un recuerdo, se trata de una observaci̤n meticulosa que busca d̤nde ha fallado.Ha sufrido la adicci̤n, la incomprensi̤n de una sociedad cerrada y su propia oscuridad como artista pero es el amor hacia Ales lo que le obliga...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm
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"Sunday Forrester does things more carefully than most people. On certain days, she must eat only white food; she drinks only carbonated beverages; she avoids clocks. It's 1988, before autism was widely diagnosed. Sunday has an old etiquette handbook that guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is Dolly, her clever, headstrong teenage...
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