Jennifer Egan

Un retrato tragicómico y nostálgico de la industria musical estadounidense desde los años sesenta hasta hoy.Premio Pulitzer Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer (2011) y elegida como uno de los mejores libros de la decada por la revista Time, esta novela esta compuesta por trece historias interconectadas que giran alrededor de la vida de Bennie Salazar, antiguo rockero punk envejecido y ejecutivo discografico, y Sasha, su apasionada y problematica asistente. Una historia generacional con multiples caidas que abordan desde la contracultura de San Francisco en los años setenta hasta el hastio de los noventa y la incertidumbre posterior al 11S. Con la musica palpitando en cada pagina, Egan muestra los efectos del tiempo y la tecnologia en las personas, asi como las transformaciones que provocan en nuestras vidas.La critica ha dicho:Una magistral novela en la que Egan cuenta, jugando con el tiempo pasado, el presente y el futuro, una adictiva historia sobre las derivas e implicaciones del mundo digital, la tecnologia y las redes.Informacion Una novela rica e inolvidable sobre la decadencia y la resistencia, sobre individuos en un mundo quecambia a su alrededor... [Egan] es una de las escritoras con mas talento de la actualidad.The New York Review of Books Una muestra del extremo virtuosismo de Egan.The New York Times Egan se merece todos los elogios: su libro es una curiosa y muy lograda combinacion de realismo convencional y experimentacion con la forma.Edmundo Paz Soldan, El PaisFiccion de la mas alta calidad. [...] Conmovedora. [...] Una lectura obligada.The Sunday Times Una novela juguetona a la vez que seria, compleja a la vez que directa. [...] Una de las prosas mas efervescentes del momento.The Daily Telegraph Una gran obra, valiente y arriesgada.ScotsmanSalvajemente ambiciosa. [...] Un tour de force [...]. La musica es a la vez tema y metafora cuando Egan explora la mutabilidad del tiempo, el destino y la responsabilidad individual sobre la tecnologia.O, The Oprah Magazine El libro de Egan es una muestra de diferentes epocas (los dias de gloria del punk; un futuro socialmente interconectado) y estilos (satira astuta, tragedia conmovedora, incluso PowerPoint) para explorar la interaccion entre la musica y los duros ritmos de la vida.Vogue Mas alla de todas sus florituras posmodernas, El tiempo es un canalla es tan tradicional como una novela de Dickens [...]. El objetivo [de Egan] no es tanto explotar la narrativa tradicional como explorar como responde a las oportunidades de presion de la era digital.Newsweek

Uno de los 10 mejores libros del año según The New York Times. La culminación de un gran proyecto narrativo iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer) La casa de caramelo, que culmina el ambicioso proyecto narrativo de Jennifer Egan iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer en 2011), cuenta la historia de Bix Bouton, un brillante empresario informatico en horas bajas que acaba patentando una exitosa herramienta tecnologica que permite acceder a nuestros recuerdos y compartirlos, y que ha seducido a miles de personas. Con una asombrosa variedad de recursos narrativos, Egan pone el foco en el mundo digital y de las redes sociales y nos cuenta la historia de diversos personajes que buscan una conexion real en un mundo cada vez mas digitalizado e hiperconectado.La critica ha dicho:Un trepidante paseo polifonico por Estados Unidos en las garras de una tecnologia que permite a los demas introducirse en tu mente.Margaret Atwood Una novela compleja para un mundo complejo e hiperconectado. [...] Una novela que se ajusta a la epoca como un guante, sin renunciar a lo importante: la literatura.El Mundo Una autentica golosina.El PeriodicoUn festin literario.El Periodico de Extremadura ¿Ha escrito Jennifer Egan la Gran Novela Americana de la era de las redes sociales? [...] La casa de caramelo permanece fiel a ese peculiar estilo poliedrico con el que Egan consigue adaptar la forma al contenido de una era de la dispersion.The ObjectiveLa casa de caramelo y El tiempo es un canalla son las novelas neoyorquinas y tecnologicas mas importantes de nuestro tiempo.The New York Times Una hazaña increible. [...] Que empiece el culto.New York Times Book Review Trasciende mundos y dimensiones mientras examina lo que ocurre cuando nuestros recuerdos se ponen a disposicion del consumo de otros. [...] Una lectura compleja y convincente que muestra el talento narrativo de Egan.TIME Compuesta por piezas cortas interconectadas, [...] esta unida por la omnipresencia de una tecnologia de ciencia ficcion que no parece tan alejada de nuestra realidad actual.VOGUE Una brillante demostracion de los placeres incuantificables de la gran ficcion.The Washington PostEl mejor libro de Jennifer Egan hasta la fecha.Publishers Weekly Una novela contundente y fragmentada sobre un futuro aterradoramente posible.Library Journal Una hermosa indagacion sobre la perdida, la memoria y la historia, una critica sobre lo que se pierde cuando vivimos nuestras vidas en linea.The San Francisco ChronicleProfundo. Egan explora con brillantez las vidas interconectadas de quienes abrazan la tecnologia y de quienes la rechazan por completo. Hipnotico.People Una obra de ficcion especulativa maravillosa y de gran inventiva.Booklist Tan apasionante y estimulante que exige ser leida y releida.Kirkus Reviews

Danny, que por lo general evita ir a lugares que no disponen de conexión wi-fi, se ve obligado a alejarse por un tiempo de Nueva York. Busca refugio en el castillo que, en algún lugar recóndito de Europa Central, su enigmatico y exitoso primo Howie quiere convertir en un hotel de lujo. La construccion no esconde solo un sofisticado sistema de cuevas y tuneles, sino que guarda tambien muchas otras sorpresas: unos extraños gemelos, un estanque oscuro, una baronesa siniestra, una torre temible. Danny y Howie, marcados por una cruel broma infantil de consecuencias devastadoras, reviven enese singular paraje aquel episodio mientras un preso, encarcelado por haber cometido algo que no se nombra, cuenta una historia en la que pasado y presente establecen una inquietante relacion. En"La torre del homenaje", novela de fascinante arquitectura, Jennifer Egan hila un relato perturbador, de gran tension psicologica, sobre los vinculos entre la imaginacion y los distintos cautiverios de la vida moderna.

Dos cosins, marcats a foc per una experiència traumàtica d’infantesa, es reuneixen vint anys després per restaurar un castell medieval mig abandonat perdut en algun punt de l’Europa oriental. Les cos

Punkrock, Sex, Kokain, Therapiesitzungen, Ehebruch, Smartpad-Wahn, die Auswuchse digitaler Kommunikation (NeuR job in sicht, $$$ Rlich?), Euphorie, Verzweiflung, Tattoos, die spater wie zerfressene Polster uber eingefallene Bizeps und Hangearsche sacken das ist nur eine kleine Auswahl der Themenvielfalt dieses bemerkenswerten Romans. Jedes der Kapitel funktioniert auch als eine eigenstandige Kurzgeschichte, die jeweils aus der Perspektive einer Figur erzahlt wird, die hauptsachlich oder am Rande mit den zentralen Charakteren in Verbindung steht. Sie erzahlen und verschwinden, tauchen jedoch haufig in anderen Kapiteln wieder auf. Bennie spielte in seiner Jugend in einer Rockband, wurde spater Musikproduzent, Sash ist seine Assistentin, Lou sein Mentor, Mindy dessen neue Freundin, Rolph Lous Sohn die Liste ist lang. Doch in schlafwandlerischer Sicherheit wechselt die Erzahlstimme virtuos Perspektive, Zeit und Raum, ohne den Leser zu verwirren. Die Geschichten sind so stark, dass man sich ergriffen, besturzt und gebannt dem Zwang des Weiterlesens nicht entziehen kann. Kein Wunder, dass dieser Roman den Pulitzer-Preis erhalten hat!

Enfants, Danny et Howie ont partagé les mêmes jeux, jusqu’à ce que Danny trahisse Howie. Vingt ans plus tard, les rôles ont changé : Howie a fait fortune alors que Danny accumule les échecs. Ce derni

'This is a novel that will pull you in and under and carry you away on its rip tides . . . Its resonances continue to wash over the reader long after the novel ends' the Guardian'2017's Most Anticipated Book . . . it will suck you into its orbit and remind you just why it is you love reading' Stylist magazine'This is a novel that deserves to join the canon of New York stories' New York Times Book ReviewThe long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression.'We're going to see the sea,' Anna whispered. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan's first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.'Beautifully rendered . . . genuinely affecting and handsomely constructed. It moves for all the right reasons' Independent 'A gripping, modern version of a 19th century novel . . . such an absorbing read' Evening Standard

The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression.Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles.Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father''s life, the reasons he might have been murdered.Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan''s first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.

Benni Salazar, un antic rocker punk, s’ha convertit en un magnat de la indústria discogràfica, però la seva noblesa entra en contradicció amb el mercantilisme i el tracte comercial del seu art. Fins

After twenty years apart, two cousins reunite in Eastern Europe to renovate a medieval castle. The cousins are irrevocably bound to one another through the shared experience of their youth, when a childhood prank with devastating consequences changed both their lives forever. In an environment of desolation, isolation and paranoia, the cousins are falling under the gothic spell of the castle and its violent history. The crimes of the past and present are about to collide, and with unthinkable results ...

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist's couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student...CONTINÚA

L’Anna Kerrigan, una nena de gairebé dotze anys, acompanya el seu pare a la casa de Manhattan Beach d’en Dexter Styles, un home que ella intueix que és clau per a la supervivència del seu pare i de l

Close your eyes and slowly count backward from ten.America, the near future. A young spy on a mission logs her observations. The result is an intense thriller, and a minute dissection of the experience of a woman whose beauty is also her camouflage, for whom control relies on submission: a woman whose success - whose life - depends on being seen and not seen.Originally published online via Twitter by @NYerFiction, Jennifer Egans first new fiction since the phenomenal success of A Visit From the Goon Squad is a taut, compulsive work of unrelenting genius.

The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is one of those tech demi-gods with whom were all on a first name basis. Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or externalizing memory. Within a decade, Bixs new technology, Own Your Unconsciouswhich allows you access to every memory youve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of othershas seduced multitudes.In the world of Egans spectacular imagination, there are counters who track and exploit desires and there are eluders, those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative stylesfrom omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love.

A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUADA brilliantly entertaining novel about memory, time, art and how humans connect at every level.LOOK AT METhe stunningly well praised second novel raises tantalizing questions about identity and reality in contemporary Western culture.EMERALD CITYEleven masterful stories, seamless evocations of self-discovery.THE INVISIBLE CIRCUSThis spellbinding novel introduces Egans remarkable ability to tie suspense with deeply insightful characters and the nuances of emotion.

A vingt ans, Anna est fermement décidée à retrouver son père. Disparu cinq ans plus tôt dans d'étranges circonstances, la jeune femme sent qu'il est en vie quelque part. Anna n'a aucun doute, seul De

At the start of this edgy and multilayered novel, a model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident with her face shattered. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable. With the surreal authority of David Lynch, Egan threads Charlotte''s narrative with those of other casualties of infatuation with the image.