Hannah Tinti

Una novela histórica centrada en la sórdida y salvaje América del siglo XIX. El joven Ren es huérfano y echa de menos una mano que le ayude a salir del frío orfanato de Nueva Inglaterra. Cuando pierde toda esperanza aparece Benjamin Nab, apuesto y encantador, y le dice que es su hermano y que ha venido a llevarselo a su casa. Incluso cuando sus historias son cada vez mas extraordinarias, cuando pone su vida en peligro una y otra vez y cometen el primer hurto y la primera profanacion de tumbas, el no pierde la esperanza de que todos los sacrificios habran valido la pena si consigue encontrar por fin un hogar, una familia... aunque si Benjamin tambien confia en ello, es otra historia. Sobre el autor Hannah Tinti crecio en Salem, Massachusetts. Sus historias, incluyendo la aclamada coleccion Animal Crackers, han hecho de el uno de los mas prometedores escritores jovenes del momento. Esta es su primera novela.

Samuel Hawley isnt like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living on the run, he raised his beloved daughter, Loo, on the road, moving from motel to motel, always watching his back. Now that Loos a teenager, Hawley wants only to give her a normal life. In his late wifes hometown, he finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at the local high school.Growing more and more curious about the mother she never knew, Loo begins to investigate. Soon, everywhere she turns, she encounters the mysteries of her parents lives before she was born. This hidden past is made all the more real by the twelve scars her father carries on his body. Each scar is from a bullet Hawley took over the course of his criminal career. Each is a memory: of another place on the map, another thrilling close call, another moment of love lost and found. As Loo uncovers a history thats darker than she could have known, the demons of her fathers past spill over into the presentand together both Hawley and Loo must face a reckoning yet to come.

Bursting with imaginative exuberance, THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY by Hannah Tinti has been described as 'One part Quentin Tarantino, one part Scheherazade' (Ann Patchett) and will appeal to fans of The Sisters Brothers or The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter Loo to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past - a past that eventually spills over into his daughter's present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come. Both a coming of age novel and a literary thriller, THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY explores what it means to be a hero, and the price we pay to protect the people we love most.

It may be too quaint to imagine there are still families reading aloud together at night (so many Web sites, so little time), but if you're out there, consider Hannah Tinti's charming first novel Set in the dark woods of 19th-century New England, The Good Thief follows a bright, one-handed orphan through enough harrowing scrapes and turns to satisfy your inner Dickens...

A father protects his daughter from the legacy of his criminal past in the new novel from the prize-winning author of The Good Thief.Loo is twelve when she moves back to the New England fishing village of her early youth. Her father, Hawley, finds work on the docks, while she undergoes the usual heartaches of a new kid in school. But lurking over Loo are mysteries, both of the mother who passed away, of the grandmother shes forbidden to speak to. And hurtling towards both father and daughter are the ghosts of Hawleys past. Before Loos birth, he was a professional criminal engaged in increasingly elaborate and dangerous underworld schemes. Life on the road was harshSamuel Hawley took twelve bullets in his brutal career. The scars have healed, but there is a reckoning still to come. This is a novel about what it means to be a hero, and the cost we pay to protect the people we love most.

Bursting with imaginative exuberance, THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY by Hannah Tinti has been described as 'One part Quentin Tarantino, and one part Scheherazade' (Ann Patchett) and will appeal to fans of The Sisters Brothers or The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter Loo to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past - a past that eventually spills over into his daughter's present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come. Both a coming of age novel and a literary thriller, THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY explores what it means to be a hero, and the price we pay to protect the people we love.

A zoo worker, cautiously washing down Marysue the elephant, considers the strange, grim fragments hes heard of his co-workers lives. Giraffes demand better living conditions and stage a mock group suicide. A girl escapes her repressive finishing school to find freedom with the monkeys in the African jungle. Snake or dog, buffalo, cat or turkey, each animal in Hannah Tintis brilliant, darkly comic collection holds up a disturbing mirror to the human beings around it.

El cuidador del elefante de un zoo sabe que los animales grandes significan grandes problemas. En el relato que da título al libro, Joseph, que le enseña el oficio, ha perdido un brazo en las fauces de un tigre de bengala; Sandy, que lleva la seccion de los simios, vive y hace el amor de perfil, porque cuando trabajaba en una investigacion en la selva africana, una madre gorila le desgarro la cara de un mordisco. Y el se dedicara a juegos muy peligrosos con la inmensa Marysue... En el esplendido Hogar, dulce hogar, Pat y Clyde son asesinados cuando se disponian a cenar. El un tranquilo barrio residencial, con unos tranquilos vecinos, los Mitchell, cuyo perro descubrira a los muertos. Y el lector descubrira mucho mas, sobre Pat, sobre la perfecta señora Mitchell, sobre las densas corrrientes subterraneas que esconden los personajes menos exoticos... En Conservacion, Mary, la hija de un celebre, poco convencional pintor, que ha hecho de padre y madre para ella, y ahora que esta enfermo quiere ser embalsamado y conservado como una obra de arte, restaura los fantasmales dioramas de animales salvajes pintados en un museo por un colega de su padre,tambien celebre, tambien homosexual, ya muerto... En el ironico, divertido El colobo rojo de la señorita Waldron, una infatigable rebelde, contemporanea de Tarzan de los monos, descubre la absoluta libertad en el Africa poscolonial.

Ren es un buen chico de doce años que vive en un sombrío orfanato de Nueva Inglaterra. Son un misterio las circunstancias en que perdió la mano izquierda (y a pesar de eso ha aprendido a robar muy bien), o su nombre, pues solo tenia tres iniciales bordadas en la ropa, REN, cuando lo dejaron a las puertas de la institucion. Hasta que un dia llega al orfanato Benjamin Nab, que dice ser el hermano mayor de Ren, y cuenta hazañas heroicas sobre su familia. Todo es mentira, pero Benjamin logra que le entreguen al chico: un niño que puede distraer y conmover a sus futuras victimas, es muy valioso para un estafador como Nab. ¿Pero que relacion tiene este hombre con el pasado de Ren? ¿Y por que entre tantas mentiras se adivinan verdades tan extrañas? Hannah Tinti crea un mundo a lo Tim Burton, con un huerfano manco adoptado por una banda de ladrones de tumbas. Sus aventuras tienen lugar en la oscura America profunda del siglo XIX, recreada con una esplendida combinacion de realidad historica e imaginacion calenturienta (Tina Jackson, Metro); Una novela dickensiana, con toques de fantasia a lo Harry Potter, y una macabra veta de gotico americano (Janet Maslin, New York Times)"Un insolito caso de escritora de verdad... La partitura narrativa de Tinti es clasica, y lo mismo sucede con su prosa, que consigue dar un tamiz natural a sucesos de fabula. Al fin, alguien extiende los dedos desde una perspectiva moderna, y da con la vieja manera de hacer las cosas". Albert Fernandez, GO

With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses.In these ten strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant keeper courts danger from his gentle charge; in Miss Waldrons Red Colobus, a headstrong young woman in Africa is lured by the freedom of the monkeys in the trees; in Talk Turkey, a boy has secret conversations with the turkeys on his friends familys farm; in Slims Last Ride, a child plays chilling games with his pet rabbit; in Gallus Gallus, a pompous husband projects his anger at his wife onto her prized rooster.This fresh, inventive debut will introduce Hannah Tinti as one of the most gifted writers of her generation. Enter her world at your own risk, and you will come away bewitched.

Après des années de cavale, Samuel Hawley et sa fille Loo posent enfin leurs valises à Olympus, Massachusetts. Criminel repenti, Samuel compte désormais offrir à sa fille une vie normale. Mais les do

Bursting with imagination, THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY by Hannah Tinti has been described as One part Quentin Tarantino, one part Scheherazade (Ann Patchett) and will appeal to fans of the Coen BrothersTrue Grit or Emma Clines The Girls.Hero. Villain. Father...After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley and his daughter Loo finally settle in Olympus, Massachusetts. Hawley takes up fishing, while Loo struggles with friendship and first love, and tries to piece together the puzzle surrounding her mothers death. Haunting them both are the twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past - a past that is about to spill over into Loos present, with explosive consequences.

Set in the wild, seamy and extremely strange America of the nineteenth century: a historical novel so richly involving and so touching that you never want it to end. Young Ren is missing his parents and a hand and doesnt know what happened to any of them. So he is beginning to fear that he will never be claimed from his cold New England orphanage: that his dream of a family - of a life - will come to nothing. But one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the orphanage. To Rens astonishment, the charming Benjamin Nab says he is his brother, come to bring him home. And even when his stories grow more and more extraordinary, when he puts Rens life in danger again and again and sets him first to theft and then to grave-robbing, Ren cannot quite abandon hope. That one day all the hunger and danger and unwanted excitement will be worth it, that he will find a family. But whether Benjamin is to be trusted is another story...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A gripping American-on-the-run thriller . . . a brilliant coming-of-age tale and a touching exploration of father-daughter relationships.Newsweek One part Quentin Tarantino, one part Scheherazade, and twelve parts wild innovation.Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of CommonwealthNAMED ONE OF PASTES BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The Washington Post Paste Samuel Hawley isnt like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living on the run, he raised his beloved daughter, Loo, on the road, moving from motel to motel, always watching his back. Now that Loos a teenager, Hawley wants only to give her a normal life. In his late wifes hometown, he finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at the local high school. Growing more and more curious about the mother she never knew, Loo begins to investigate. Soon, everywhere she turns, she encounters the mysteries of her parents lives before she was born. This hidden past is made all the more real by the twelve scars her father carries on his body. Each scar is from a bullet Hawley took over the course of his criminal career. Each is a memory: of another place on the map, another thrilling close call, another moment of love lost and found. As Loo uncovers a history thats darker than she could have known, the demons of her fathers past spill over into the presentand together both Hawley and Loo must face a reckoning yet to come.Praise for The Twelve Lives of Samuel HawleyA master class in literary suspense.The Washington PostTinti depicts brutality and compassion with exquisite sensitivity, creating a powerful overlay of love and pain.The New YorkerHannah Tintis beautifully constructed second novel . . . uses the scars on Hawleys bodyall twelve bullet wounds, one by oneto show who he is, what hes done, and why the past chases and clings to him with such tenacity.The Boston Globe The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is an adventure epic with the deeper resonance of myth. . . . Tinti exhibits an aptitude for shining a piercing light into the corners of her characters hearts and minds.O: The Oprah Magazine

Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times Book Review The Washington Post San Francisco Chronicle Kirkus ReviewsWinner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and an American Library Association Alex AwardTwelve year-old Ren is missing his left hand. How it was lost is a mystery that Ren has been trying to solve for his entire life, as well as who his parents are, and why he was abandoned as an infant at Saint Anthonys Orphanage for boys. He longs for a family to call his own and is terrified of the day he will be sent alone into the world.But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Rens long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents persuades the monks at the orphanage to release the boy and to give Ren some hope. But is Benjamin really who he says he is? Journeying through a New England of whaling towns and meadowed farmlands, Ren is introduced to a vibrant world of hardscrabble adventure filled with outrageous scam artists, grave robbers, and petty thieves. If he stays, Ren becomes one of them. If he goes, hes lost once again. As Ren begins to find clues to his hidden parentage he comes to suspect that Benjamin not only holds the key to his future, but to his past as well. Praise for The Good Thief"Every once in a whileif you are very luckyyou come upon a novel so marvelous and enchanting and rare that you wish everyone in the world would read it, as well. The Good Thief is just such a booka beautifully composed work of literary magic."Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love"Darkly transporting . . . [In] The Good Thief, the reader can find plain-spoken fiction full of traditional virtues: strong plotting, pure lucidity, visceral momentum and a total absence of writerly mannerisms. In Ms. Tintis case that means an American Dickensian tale with touches of Harry Potterish whimsy, along with a macabre streak of spooky New England history."New York Times

«Com Edgar Allan Poe i Patricia Highsmith, Tinti té un excel·lent domini de l?extraordinari, sap capgirar les situacions i embolcallar les nostres vides de misteri.» Time Out New YorkSerps, gossos, g

Samuel Hawley no es como los demás padres. Es un tipo solitario acostumbrado a vivir huyendo de un sitio a otro y que ha educado a su hija Loo en el camino, de motel en motel, siempre vigilando sus espaldas. Conforme Loo se hace mayor, su curiosidad respecto a una madre que nunca conoció también va creciendo. Descubre un pasado oscuro que es tangible todavía en el cuerpo de su padre, marcado por las cicatrices de doce balas que recibió durante su carrera criminal. Los demonios del pasado de su padre irrumpirán en el presente, y entonces padre e hija deberán enfrentarse juntos.

Ren ha perdido una mano en un accidente que no puede recordar, y a pesar de eso ha aprendido a robar muy bien. Vive desde hace muchos en un sombrío orfanato, donde de vez en cuando los muchachos son puestos en fila para que los elijan aquellos que quieren un hijo, o mano de obra barata, o algunas cosas mas siniestras. Claro que, en el caso de Ren, ¿quien va a querer a un chico demasiado crecido para hijo, muy pequeño para trabajador, y ademas manco? Hasta que un dia aparece Benjamin Nab, que dice ser el hermano mayor de Ren y convence a los curas para que se lo entregue. Y Ren aprendera muy pronto que un niño listo y minusvalido, que puede distraer a sus futuras victimas, es una valiosa propiedad para un estafador "Si le pillaron el punto al humor de Dickens, se pasean a sus anchas por la iconografia de Tim Burton y se rinden ante el oscuro encanto de lo gotico, pasaran un par de horas maravillosas a la zaga de El buen ladron. Tan macabro como tierno y divertido" (Sonia Rueda, 20 minutos).