Andrew O'Hagan

La novela definitiva sobre la Gran Bretaña postbrexit. Londres, mayo de 2021. Campbell Flynn es un profesor universitario de mediana edad casado y con dos hijos que ha dejado atrás sus orígenes humil

La novela definitiva sobre la Gran Bretaña postbrexit.Londres, mayo de 2021. Campbell Flynn es un profesor universitario de mediana edad casado y con dos hijos que ha dejado atrás sus orígenes humildes y se ha convertido en un prestigioso intelectual. Su vida en apariencia idilica esconde una serie de deudas, que Campbell pretende liquidar publicando un polemico libro de autoayuda. Mientras, Milo Mangasha, su alumno mas brillante y transgresor, lo adentra en el mundo de la darknet y las criptomonedas; William Byre, su mejor amigo, esta atrapado en un monumental escandalo; su cuñado, el duque de Kendal, mantiene turbios tratos con varios oligarcas rusos; y la vida de Campbell terminara cruzandose con la de gente de lo mas diversa: migrantes ilegales, politicos corruptos, pobres pensionistas, aristocratas venidos a menos, periodistas militantes, traficantes e influencers.Caledonian Road es un afilado retrato de la sociedad, la politica y el dinero britanicos, una monumental novela social sobre un Londres aceleradamente corrosivo, que ha sido aplaudida como la novela definitiva sobre la Gran Bretaña postbrexit.Una obra maestra. John LanchesterAbsolutamente impresionante. Douglas StuartUna novela brillante que derriba las fachadas de la alta sociedad. Pero Andrew OHagan no es solo un cronista sin igual de nuestra epoca. Tiene otros dones generosidad, humor y ternura que hacen que leer este libro sea todo un placer. Monica AliAndrew OHagan, con su nueva obra maestra, ha hecho mas que un gran libro: ha escrito un milagro social. Joshua CohenUna historia adictiva (...). Una fabula descarada y disparatada sobre la soberbia y la corrupcion, un libro al mismo tiempo deslumbrado y asqueado por la ciudad que describe. Xan Brooks (The Guardian)El escoces Andrew OHagan ha escrito uno de los novelones del año. Caledonian Road es un retrato a la manera de Galdos de las miserias de nuestra sociedad actual con magnates corruptos y mucha cripto. Paula Corroto (El Confidencial)El novelista escoces reinventa la novela victoriana con Caledonian Road, acido retrato de una sociedad obsesionada por el dinero y con unas diferencias sociales cada vez mas pronunciadas. (...) Uno de los mas punzantes y absorbentes retratos de la Inglaterra contemporanea. (...) Dickens, sin duda, estaria orgulloso. David Moran (El Periodico de Catalunya)Andrew OHagan firma una monumental novela satirica. Magdalena Tsanis (EFE)Un fresco dickensiano con toques de tragicomedia costumbrista y acido humor que disecciona con fino escalpelo todas las capas de la sociedad londinense contemporanea. Andres Seoane (La Lectura / El Mundo)Una obra entretenidisima que retrata las tensiones de la Gran Bretaña post-Brexit combinando humor, critica social y una narrativa envolvente. Paloma Leyra (Forbes)Caledonian Road una de esas novelas que se leen entre la carcajada y el espanto no es otra cosa que la epica intima y la saga existencial de un hombre que se la pasa tratando con personas tan diferentes a el. Rodrigo Fresan (ABC Cultural)Una ingeniosa y febril novela de novelas; una tragedia costumbrista atravesada por la risa y el espanto con la que el tres veces finalista al Booker ...

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne''s secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep..."Be Near Me" is a brilliantly moving story of art and politics, love and change and the way we live now.

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne''s secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. This is his story. Maf the dog was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life. Not only a picaresque hero himself, he was also a scholar of the adventuring rogue in literature and art, witnessing the rise of America''s new liberalism, civil rights, the space race, the New York critics, and was Marilyn Monroe''s constant companion. The story of Maf the dog is a hilarious and highly original peek into the life of a complex canine hero - he was very much a real historical figure, with his license and photographs sold at auction along with Marilyn''s other person affects. Through the eyes of Maf we''re provided with an insight into the life of Monroe herself, and a fascinating take on one of the most extraordinary periods of the twentieth century

Cuando el padre David Aderton se instala en una pequeña localidad escocesa, no todos los lugareños lo reciben de buen grado. Y aunque logra entablar amistad con dos jóvenes, el destino lo aboca a ser el centro de todas las miradas al convertirse en sospechoso de abusos a una menor. Desde su angustiosa situacion, David retrocedera hasta su infancia en Lancanshire, la muerte de su padre, los años de Oxford y la decision trascendental que tomo en Roma. Andrew OHagan es un autor reconocido por su calidad literaria, en la linea de nuestros escritores mas solidos como Cormac McCarthy o Peter Carey.

Mayflies is one of those novels to press into the hands of friends... I adored this book.' Carol Ann Duffy ***'A life-enhancing novel. It will stay with you and you will want to read it again.' Alan Massie, Scotsman'A joyful, warm and heart-filling tribute to the million-petalled flower of male friendship.' John Self, The TimesA heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong

¿Qué pasa en nuestras vidas si dejamos de ser visibles? ¿Qué pasa si dejamos de estar documentados? Andrew O´Hagan busca en «Los desaparecidos» una respuesta y un significado a estos interrogantes. A

Maria Tambini es una guapa jovencita hija de inmigrantes italianos, vive en Escocia, tiene una hermosa voz, sueña con triunfar y encarna la única esperanza de prosperidad para su familia. Pero cuando el sueño se cumpla, Maria ira enredandose sin remision en la maraña de la celebridad, victima de si misma y de las mentiras de sus allegados. ¿Podra salir del pozo en el que se esta precipitando por intercesion del amor?Novela de corte convencional que atrapa por la fuerza de la voz y la sensibilidad de una historia entre madre e hija. Autor muy aplaudido por la critica internacional y de trayectoria literaria reconocida.

Maria Tambini is a 13-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up in the 1970s above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, she is making ready to escape the ordinary life to become a living exhibit in the modern drama of celebrity

From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road a heart enriching celebration of what makes us great our friends If we are lucky in our lives our friendships will be rich and varied They will be shared with those with two legs with four legs with whiskers or clean faces they will come dressed in the simplicity of childhood or the professional attire of adult life some will span decades and some will be only fleeting But the thing they will all have in common is that life is not only unimaginable but unimagined without them In these gorgeous personal reflections Andrew O Hagan explores friendship through music and poetry memory and history illuminating the many ways and reasons that people come together and how our lives are all the better because we do

¿Qué hemos hecho con el sueño de un mundo mejor que tuvieron nuestros padres y abuelos? Un nieto que derriba antiguas barriadas obreras. Un padre que lucha contra el alcohol. Un abuelo que dedicó su vida a la construccion de viviendas sociales. Tres generaciones enfrentadas a un destino.

As he grew up, Andrew OHagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British industry and the rise of Blair and the tabloids. This collection of essays tells the story of that period in our cultural and political life. Through the reported essays that first made OHagans name, its a book filled both with personal story and the power of documentary witness. Opening with a major personal piece examining the journey of Britain and America since the closing of the Thatcher years, it concludes with a piece of reportage telling the story of a British and an American soldier who died in Iraq on the same day in 2006. A fascinating, important and timely collection from a hugely important essayist.

The Secret Life is a book about identity, secrecy, surveillance and the relationship between the individual, the state and technology at a time when information and data has become the de facto currency of Late Capitalism. It is structured in three long essays, versions of which have appeared in the London Review of Books.Through Julian Assange, Satashi Nakamoto - the much mythologised founder of Bitcoin - and Ronald Pinn, an identity constructed by OHagan himself, what emerges in The Secret Life is a uniquely intelligent book about the criminal mind and collective responsibility in the twenty-first century.