Arthur Phillips

Queen Elizabeth&rsquos spymasters recruit an unlikely agent&mdashthe only Muslim in England&mdashfor an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from &ldquoone of the best writers in America&rdquo (The Washington Post)&ldquoEvokes flashes of Hilary Mantel, John le Carre and Graham Greene, but the wry, tricky plot that drives it is pure Arthur Phillips.&rdquo&mdashThe Wall Street JournalNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE WASHINGTON POST The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, childless. Her nervous kingdom has no heir. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. The queen&rsquos spymasters&mdashhardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism&mdashfear that James is not what he appears. He has every reason to claim to be a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his family&rsquos Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. With time running out, London confronts a seemin

El siempre original Arthur Phillips, autor que ha estado en el radar de la crítica norteamericana más prestigiosa, se ha superado a sí mismo en este inteligente juego literario, mezcla de narrativa, teatro y autobiografia, con el mismo como socarron personaje que se infiltra en el mundo de Shakespeare, en la industria editorial y en su propia familia, provocando un divertido efecto . Arthur Phillips y su hermana gemela, Dana, mantienen una relacion poco comun con su padre, tambien llamado Arthur Phillips, un falsificador apasionado por distorsionar y envolver de magia lo cotidiano. A punto de morir, Arthur, padre, le entrega a su hijo una obra maestra de Shakespeare que el mismo ha descubierto luego de que permaneciera oculta durante siglos, y lo invita a editarla.Como albacea literario de este patrimonio, Arthur, hijo, se cuestiona a menudo la autenticidad de la obra, al tiempo que pone en tela de juicio, durante el proceso filologico que emprende para comprobarla, la fiabilidad de su tan excentrica como disfuncional familia. Porque Arthur esta plenamente convencido de que esa obra shakespeariana es la mayor estafa llevada a cabo por su padre

A group of expatriates living in Budapest in 1990 would rather be in Prague, which seems to them to be the quintessential Eastern European city. Obsessed with a game called Sincerity, which both encourages and exposes lying, five characters interact with each other and with the city they're living in, providing a sharply observed picture of young expatriate life. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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El descubrimiento de la tumba de Tutankamon abrirá las puertas de una serie de apasionantes intrigas...Obsesionado por la tumba de un supuesto faraón, el arqueólogo Trilipush se juega su reputación y su fortuna. Al otro extremo del mundo, un detective se enfrenta a su mas importante caso. Dos tramas laberinticas que arrastran al lector hacia un final demoledor.

A masterpiece . . . seamlessly mixes psychological disintegration, the dissolution of a marriage and . . . a classic ghost story.USA Today NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NATIONAL BESTSELLER Angelica impresses first as a clever send-up of the late Victorian novel, and then becomes its own very original thing. It is engrossing, deeply moving, andprecisely because it is movingvery frightening.Stephen King London, the 1880s. In the dark of night, a chilling spectre is making its way through the Barton household, hovering over the sleeping daughter and terrorizing her fragile mother. Are these visions real, or is there something more sinister, and more human, to fear? As the familys story is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast, sym- pathies shift, and nothing is as it seems. Set at the dawn of psychoanalysis and the peak of spiritualisms acceptance, Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a thoroughly modern exploration of identity, reality, and love. Praise for Angelica Starts as a ghost story . . . turns into a spectacular, ever-proliferating tale of mingled motives, psychological menace, and delicately told crises of appetite and loneliness.The New Yorker Spellbinding . . . cements this young novelists reputation as one of the best writers in America.The Washington Post Book WorldBONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillipss The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, Prague, and The Egyptologist.

The Tragedy of Arthur is an emotional and elaborately constructed tour de force from one of the best writers in America (The Washington Post). Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young novelist struggling with a con artist father who works wonders of deception. Imprisoned for decades and nearing the end of his life, Arthurs father reveals a treasure hes kept secret for half a century: The Tragedy of Arthur, a previously unknown play by William Shakespeare. Arthur and his twin sister inherit their fathers mission: to see the manuscript published and acknowledged as the Bards last great gift to humanity . . . unless its their fathers last great con. By turns hilarious and haunting, this virtuosic novel, which includes Shakespeares (?) lost play in its entirety, brilliantly subverts our notions of truth, fiction, genius, and identity, as the two Arthursthe novelist and the ancient kingplay out their strangely intertwined fates.A New York Times Notable Book A New Yorker Reviewers Favorite of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Novel of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year A Library Journal Top Ten Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year One of Salons five best novels of the yearLook for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

BONUS: This edition contains a The Song Is You discussion guide and excerpts from Arthur Phillipss The Tragedy of Arthur, Prague, The Egyptologist, and Angelica.Each song on Julians iPod, that greatest of all human inventions, is a touchstone. There are songs for the girls from when he was single, theres the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, theres one for the day his son was born. But when Julians family falls apart, even music loses its hold on him.Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his lifes soundtrackand life itselfstart to play again. Julian stumbles into a bar and sees Cait ODwyer, a flame-haired Irish rock singer, performing with her band, and a strange and unlikely love affair is ignited. Over the next few months, Julian and Caits passion plays out, though they never meet. What follows is a heartbreaking dark comedy, the tenderest of love stories, and a perfectly observed tale of the way we live now.

Queen Elizabeths spymasters recruit an unlikely agentthe only Muslim in Englandfor an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from one of the best writers in America (The Washington Post)Evokes flashes of Hilary Mantel, John le Carre and Graham Greene, but the wry, tricky plot that drives it is pure Arthur Phillips.The Wall Street JournalNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE WASHINGTON POST The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, childless. Her nervous kingdom has no heir. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. The queens spymastershardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremismfear that James is not what he appears. He has every reason to claim to be a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his familys Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. With time running out, London confronts a seemingly impossible question: What does James truly believe? It falls to Geoffrey Belloc, a secret warrior from the hottest days of Englands religious battles, to devise a test to discover the true nature of King Jamess soul. Belloc enlists Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician left behind by the last diplomatic visit from the Ottoman Empire, as his undercover agent. The perfect man for the job, Ezzedine is the ultimate outsider, stranded on this cold, wet, and primitive island. He will do almost anything to return home to his wife and son. Arthur Phillips returns with a unique and thrilling novel that will leave readers questioning the nature of truth at every turn.

BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillipss The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, The Egyptologist, and Angelica. A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortunefinancial, romantic, and spiritualin an exotic city newly opened to the West. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague, where the atmospheric decay of postCold War Europe is even more cinematically perfect, have it better. Still, they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making. What they actually find is a deceptively beautiful place that they often fail to understand. What does it mean to fret about your fledgling career when the man across the table was tortured by two different regimes? How does your short, uneventful life compare to the lives of those who actually resisted, fought, and died? What does your angst mean in a city still pocked with bullet holes from war and crushed rebellion? Journalist John Price finds these questions impossible to answer yet impossible to avoid, though he tries to forget them in the din of Budapest s nightclubs, in a romance with a secretive young diplomat, at the table of an elderly cocktail pianist, and in the moody company of a young man obsessed with nostalgia. Arriving in Budapest one spring day to pursue his elusive brother, John finds himself pursuing something else entirely, something he cant quite put a name to, something that will draw him into stories much larger than himself. With humor, intelligence, masterly prose, and profound affection for both Budapest and his own characters, Arthur Phillips not only captures his contemporaries but also brilliantly renders the Hungary of past and present: the generations of failed revolutionaries and lyric poets, opportunists and profiteers, heroes and storytellers.

Cuando en los años veinte Howard Carter descubre la tumba de Tutankamon, el más asombroso hallazgo de la historia de la arqueología, el egiptólogo Ralph Trilipush se juega su reputación profesional y la fortuna de su prometida en su obsesion por encontrar el enterramiento de un faraon apocrifo basandose en un jeroglifico pornografico. Mientras, un implacable detective australiano llamado Harold Ferrell, se enfrenta al caso de su carrera recorriendo el globo en busca de un asesino. Y de otro. Y probablemente de otro mas. Esta inquietante, divertida y laberintica novela se inicia en las llanuras del desierto egipcio en 1922 y serpentea por los tugurios de Australia o los salones de baile de Boston, pasando por Oxford, los campos de batalla de la Primera Guerra Mundial y una turbulenta corte real. Y su mejor baza es que las dos tramas principales, aparentemente inconexas y rebosantes de intriga, confluyen en un final explosivo tan inevitable como sorprendente.

"El ingenio y la sutileza de Nabokov combinados en el pulso narrativo de Stephen King" The Washington Post.Angelica es una historia de fantasmas victoriana cargada del mejor suspense. La hija de cuatro años del acomodado matrimonia Barton, Angelica, duerme aun en la habitacion conyugal. Impacientado por la ausencia de relaciones sexuales consu esposa, el padre destierra a la niña a un dormitorio separado. Pronto Constance, la fragil madre, empieza a sentir extrañas amenazas. Un diabolico espectro recorre la casa de noche y se cierne sobre la cama de su pequeña. Pero ¿es real esta presencia sobrenatural, o hay algo mas humano, y mas siniestro, que temer?Alabada por la critica, que la han comparado con las obras de Stephen King, Henry James y Nabokov. Una historia con una ambientacion brillante, que atrapa al lector desde la primera pagina.

Quan als anys vint Howard Carter descobreix la tomba de Tutankamon, la troballa més sorprenent de la història de l?arqueologia, l?egiptòleg Ralph Trilipush es juga la reputació professional i la fort

BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillipss The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, Prague, and Angelica. From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil. Just as Howard Carter unveils the tomb of Tutankhamun, making the most dazzling find in the history of archaeology, Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush is digging himself into trouble, having staked his professional reputation and his fiancees fortune on a scrap of hieroglyphic pornography. Meanwhile, a relentless Australian detective sets off on the case of his career, spanning the globe in search of a murderer. And another murderer. And possibly another murderer. The confluence of these seemingly separate stories results in an explosive ending, at once inevitable and utterly unpredictable. Arthur Phillips leads this expedition to its unforgettable climax with all the wit and narrative bravado that made Prague one of the most critically acclaimed novels of 2002. Exploring issues of class, greed, ambition, and the very human hunger for eternal life, this staggering second novel gives us a glimpse of Phillipss range and maturityand is sure to earn him further acclaim as one of the most exciting authors of his generation.