One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville's masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a...
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A wonderful, balanced novel about how the remains of the past reverberate in the present, Shutterspeed sensitively and delicately describes the powerful emotions which lie just beneath the surface of the unruffled sheen of village life. Joris’...
Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going crazy. His files keep vanishing. His boss subjects him to cryptic taunts. His family despises him. And...
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Andrew Stilman, grand reporter au New York Times, vient de se marier.
Le 9 juillet 2012 au matin, il court le long de l’Hudson River quand il est soudainement agressé. Une douleur fulgurante lui transperce le dos, il s’effondre dans une...
"On est volontiers persuadé d'avoir lu beaucoup de choses à propos de l'holocauste, on est convaincu d'en savoir au moins autant. Et, convenons-en avec une sincérité égale au sentiment de la honte, quelquefois, devant...
En la vida de Elizabeth Egan todo tiene su sitio, desde las tazas para caf? expr?s en su reluciente cocina hasta los muestrario y los botes de pintura de su negocio de dise?o de interior. El orden y la precisi?n le dan una sensaci?n de control...
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En palabras del autor, la novela no es tanto una revancha personal contra el franquismo, como una secreta y nost?lgica despedida de su infancia. Lo cual no quita para que, en efecto, la s?rdida vida cotidiana en un barrio ya desaparecido...