Jim Crace

A celebration of the modern city . . . in such vivid prose that you can almost see the bloom on the peaches, taste the sun-ripened oranges and smell the coffee at the market traders stalls Sunday Tim

From the acclaimed author of Quarantine, a mesmeric novel that breathes life into a distant age.

"Jim Crace es un escritor que habla de cosas livianas, pero lo hace de forma siempre sutil y sorprendente, una superficie titilante sobre quietas profundidades" (Washington Post).Jim Crace es uno de los grandes autores britanicos contemporaneos que todavia quedan por descubrir en España. Lennie sopla es una novela cuya accion se situa en el año 2024, en un mundo en el que las clases medias conducen coches electricos de propiedad comunitaria. En visperas de su 50 cumpleaños, el saxofonista Leonard Lessing es testimonio de un acontecimiento mediatico: un secuestro se emite en directo por television y el reconoce inmediatamente al secuestrador, Maxie Lermontov, un anarquista ruso-canadiense con quien habia congeniado a principios del siglo XXI. Leonard se ve en una encrucijada, debe escoger entre ser un simple espectador, un socialista de sofa, como le recrimina siempre su esposa, o pasar a la accion y revelar a la policia la identidad de su antiguo amigo.a

Leonard Lessing once cast a spell on stage, hypnotizing crowds with his improvised jazz, easy in his music, at home in the moment. Now, home is somewhere he never leaves. His sax is silent, his marriage faltering, his stepdaughter vanished, and his life shrinking until one afternoon the TV brings news he can't ignore. A figure from his firebrand past has arrived in town, with hair-raising results. Can Leonard face the limelight one last time?

« Deux panaches de fumée à une période de l’année trop douce pour les feux de cheminée nous surprennent à l’aube. Notre terre est cernée de flammes. » En quelques jours, le pouvoir change de mains da

« Deux panaches de fumée à une période de l’année trop douce pour les feux de cheminée nous surprennent à l’aube. Notre terre est cernée de flammes. » En quelques jours, le pouvoir change de mains da

As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrives on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk's village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft. But something even darker is at the heart of Walter's story, and he will be the only man left to tell it ...

From the Man Booker shortlisted author of Harvest. Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days in the large villa he has always called home. Then one night Busi is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids the contents of his larder. Busi is convinced that what assaulted him was no animal, but a child, `innocent and wild', and his words fan the flames of old rumour - of an ancient race of people living in the bosk surrounding the town - and new controversy: the town's paupers, the feral wastrels at its edges, must be dealt with. Once and for all. Lyrical and warm, intimate and epic, The Melody by Jim Crace tracks the few days that will see Busi and the town he loves altered irrevocably. This is a story about grief and ageing, about reputation and the loss of it, about love and music and the peculiar way myth seeps into real life. And it is a political novel too - a rallying cry to protect those we persecute. 'The Melody takes its place among his finest [novels] . . . an ecological fable for modern times' Guardian

Una aldea al borde del mar a finales del Paleolítico Superior. Allí trabajan los artesanos más hábiles, los mejores talladores de sílex, ajenos por completo a la inminente amenaza del bronce. Canteros orgullosos de su oficio como Laurel, capaz de reproducir en piedra la belleza y la textura de las hojas de los arboles.Un dia el lugar es asaltado por un grupo de jinetes pendencieros. Una flecha envenenada esta a punto de matar al protagonista de esta historia, un crio sin nombre. Las heridas causadas obligaran a amputarle el brazo derecho, convirtiendolo en un ser inutil para la comunidad. Ignorado por los suyos, nuestro joven protagonista se aventurara mas alla de los limites del poblado y conocera a Liebre, una mujer solitaria con una hija a su cargo, que acabara viviendo en la aldea y pasara a ser el centro de su nueva vida.En sus muchas idas y venidas, el chico narrara lo que ha visto fuera y, como un encantador de serpientes, embelesara a niños y mayores con sus historias de barcos cargados de mujeres perfumadas, esqueletos de ballenas o navegantes rumbo al Sol. El, que ha perdido el don de las piedras, descubrira en su lugar el poderoso don de las palabras.

Alfred Busi, dit Mr Al, est attaqué chez lui par une créature étrange. Les médias crient à l’invasion de bêtes féroces pendant qu’Alfred affirme que son assaillant est un enfant rendu fou par la faim

Alfred Busi, dit Mr Al, est attaqué chez lui par une créature étrange. Les médias crient à l’invasion de bêtes féroces pendant qu’Alfred affirme que son assaillant est un enfant rendu fou par la faim

This used to be America, this river crossing in the ten-month stretch of land, this sea-to-sea. It used to be the safest place on earth. America as we know it has fragmented. Its machines have stopped, its communities have splintered, its history is virtually forgotten, and the great migration has started: eastwards, through the mountains and down the perilous Dreaming Highway, to ships rumoured to sail to a land of greater promise. Into this landscape stumbles Franklin, who has left his home only to find new ties in a pesthouse perched above a valley. Margaret, suffering the early stages of plague, has been carried up from Ferrytown to recuperate or die alone. When her village is destroyed, she and Franklin set out together, compelled to leave everything they know behind them. "The Pesthouse" is realized with the flair, conviction and intensity for which Crace is admired all over the world. It is the story of an America adapting to a 'medieval future' without technology, without science, without social cohesion; and it is the story of how two people find strength in one another against all the odds.

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