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Un hombre en la oscuridad (Novela) / Man in the Dark (A Novel) (Spanish Edition)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Paul Auster
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    192
    Publisher:
    Planeta Publishing Corp (October 29, 2024)
    Language:
    Spanish
    Audience:
    General/trade
    ISBN-13:
    9786073915908
    ISBN-10:
    607391590X
    Dimensions:
    4.9" x 7.5"
    File:
    TWO RIVERS-PERSEUS-Metadata_Only_Perseus_Distribution_Customer_Group_Metadata_20250917125820-20250918.xml
    Folder:
    TWO RIVERS
    List Price:
    $11.95
    Country of Origin:
    Mexico
    Pub Discount:
    60
    Case Pack:
    66
    As low as:
    $10.28
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-PER
    Discount Code:
    C
    Weight:
    4.8oz
    Imprint:
    Planeta Publishing
  • Overview

    Una brillante y devastadora novela sobre las múltiples realidades que habitamos mientras las guerras se extienden a nuestro alrededor

    August Brill tiene setenta y dos años y se está recuperando en la casa de su hija, en Vermont, tras sufrir un accidente de coche. No puede dormir y, acostado sobre la cama en la negrura de la noche, inventa historias para rehuir acontecimientos del pasado que preferiría olvidar, como la reciente muerte de su esposa y el horroroso asesinato del novio de su nieta, Titus. En una de esas historias, el jubilado crítico de libros imagina un mundo paralelo en el que Estados Unidos no está en guerra con Irak sino contra ellos mismos. En esta otra América, las torres gemelas no cayeron, los resultados de las elecciones del 2000 llevaron a la secesión y se produjo una sangrienta guerra civil. A medida que avanza la noche, la historia de Brill se vuelve cada vez más intensa, y aquello que no estaba intentando evitar recordar insiste en ser narrado.

    «Apasionada e impactante, Un hombre en la oscuridad es una novela que nos obliga a confrontarnos con la oscuridad de la noche al mismo tiempo que celebra la existencia de alegrías cotidianas en un mundo capaz de desarrollar la violencia más grotesca.» Time Out

    ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

    "Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." —Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books

    From Paul Auster, a "literary original" (Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.


    Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget: his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued.

    As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is desperately trying to avoid insists on being told.