Andri Snaer Magnason

El país de los sueños. Manual de autoayuda para una nación atemorizada (Editorial Aire, 2013), del autor islandés Andri Snaer Magnason (ganador del prestigioso Premio Premio Kairos, otorgado anualmente por el Instituto Alfred Toepfer), ¡llegara a las librerias la ultima semana de marzo 2013! Publicado en Islandia, Alemania, Inglaterra, Dinamarca y Japon, best-seller internacional, este libro revoluciono a la sociedad islandesa, se convirtio en lectura obligada, en libro de culto para la recuperacion del pais. No solo cuenta con un fantastico prologo de la cantante Bjork, sino que ademas, tiene reseñas espectaculares del New York Times, The Nation, National Geographic y la ex Presidenta de Islandia. Es una obra polemica, real, que coloca la situacion islandesa en una perspectiva global, perfectamente transferible a lo que atraviesa España en estos momentos. No solo es capaz de conducir a la reflexion, sino que ademas, apunta valientemente a los responsables del colapso y proporciona alternativas, ofrece soluciones, siempre con una mirada de cambio y esperanza. Y por si fuera poco, la portada es obra del increible artista Conrad Roset.

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La Historia Del Planeta Azul Andri Snaer Magnason La historia del planeta azul es un fascinante cuento que habla de una peligrosa aventura que lleva a los niños que viven en él por oscuros bosques, profundos valles y azules cielos, y supone una prueba sin igual para la amistad y los recursos de los niños del planeta azul.

2013 Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation of Excellence"Orwell, Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams are felt on every page, though Magnason is never derivative. His satire and insightful social commentary sweeten the pot and the sheer wackiness of Magnasons oversized imagination is invigorating."Publishers Weekly, starred reviewLoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life. Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken, soul mates are identified and brought together (while existing, unscientifically validated relationships are driven remorselessly asunder), and rocketing the dead into the sky becomes both a status symbol and a beautiful, cathartic show for those left behind. Indridi and Sigrid, two blissfully happy young lovers, have their perfect worlds threatened (along with Indridis sanity) when they are calculated apart and are forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love. Their journey ultimately puts them on a collision course with LoveStar, who is on his own mission to find what might become the last idea in the world. Steeped in influences ranging from Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, and Kurt Vonnegut to George Orwell, Douglas Adams, and Monty Python, Andri Snr Magnason has created a surreal yet uncomfortably familiar world, where the honey embrace of love does its utmost to survive amid relentless and overpowering controls.

Brimir and Hulda are best friends who live on a small island on a beautiful blue planet where there are only children and no adults. Their planet is wild and at times dangerous, but everything is free, everyone is their friend, and each day is more exciting than the last. One day a rocket ship piloted by a strange-looking adult named Gleesome Goodday crashes on the beach. His business card claims he is a Dream.ComeTrueMaker and joybringer, and he promises to make life a hundred times more fun with sun-activated flying powder and magic-coated skin so that no one ever has to bathe again. Goodday even nails the sun in the sky and creates a giant wolf to chase away the clouds so it can be playtime all the time. In exchange for these wonderful things, Goodday asks only for a little bit of the childrens youthbut what is youth compared to a lot more fun? The children are so enamored with their new games that they forget all the simple activities they used to love. During Gooddays great flying competition, Hulda and Brimir fly too high to the sun and soar to the other side of planet, where they discover it is dark all the time and the children are sickly and pale. Hulda and Brimir know that without their help, the pale children will die, but first they need to get back to their island and convince their friends that Gleesome Goodday is not all that he seems. A fantastical adventure, beautifully told, unfolds in a deceptively simple tale. The Story of the Blue Planet will delight and challenge readers of all ages.

Brimir and Hulda are best friends who live on a small island on a beautiful blue planet where there are only children and no adults. Their planet is wild and at times dangerous, but everything is free, everyone is their friend, and each day is more exciting than the last. One day a rocket ship piloted by a strange-looking adult named Gleesome Goodday crashes on the beach. His business card claims he is a Dream.ComeTrueMaker and joybringer, and he promises to make life a hundred times more fun with sun-activated flying powder and magic-coated skin so that no one ever has to bathe again. Goodday even nails the sun in the sky and creates a giant wolf to chase away the clouds so it can be playtime all the time. In exchange for these wonderful things, Goodday asks only for a little bit of the childrens youthbut what is youth compared to a lot more fun? The children are so enamored with their new games that they forget all the simple activities they used to love.During Gooddays great flying competition, Hulda and Brimir fly too high to the sun and soar to the other side of planet, where they discover it is dark all the time and the children are sickly and pale. Hulda and Brimir know that without their help, the pale children will die, but first they need to get back to their island and convince their friends that Gleesome Goodday is not all that he seems.A fantastical adventure, beautifully told, unfolds in a deceptively simple tale. The Story of the Blue Planet will delight and challenge readers of all ages.

Un libro para comprender el futuro del planeta si no actuamos de inmediato.Sobre el tiempo y el agua es un ensayo narrativo profundo y convincente sobre la crisis medioambiental global y, a la vez, una intima y desesperada suplica al mundo. Nacio de una conversacion con un cientifico puntero convencido de que son los escritores, y no los cientificos, los mas capacitados para hablar de uno de los asuntos mas apremiantes para la humanidad. Los argumentos que esgrime son, pues, indistintamente mitologicos o cientificos, anecdoticos o estrictamente morales y filosoficos. El resultado es un rico entramado de relatos de viaje, historias familiares, momentos poeticos: un libro bellisimo, a la vez que urgente.

Un libro para comprender el futuro del planeta si no actuamos de inmediato. Sobre el tiempo y el agua es un ensayo narrativo profundo y convincente sobre la crisis medioambiental global y, a la vez, una intima y desesperada suplica al mundo. Nacio de una conversacion con un cientifico puntero convencido de que son los escritores, y no los cientificos, los mas capacitados para hablar de uno de los asuntos mas apremiantes para la humanidad. Los argumentos que esgrime son, pues, indistintamente mitologicos o cientificos, anecdoticos o estrictamente morales y filosoficos. El resultado es un rico entramado de relatos de viaje, historias familiares, momentos poeticos: un libro bellisimo, a la vez que urgente.