John Irving

Una vida entera marcada por la Historia.John Irving regresa al mundo de Las normas de la casa de la sidra y al orfanato de St. Cloud’s.En 1908, en el estado de Maine, una noche muy fría y en medio de

Una vida entera marcada por la Historia.John Irving regresa al mundo de Las normas de la casa de la sidra y al orfanato de St. Clouds.En 1908, en el estado de Maine, una noche muy fría y en medio de una intensa nevada, dejan a una niña de casi cuatro años en el porche del orfanato St. Clouds, que dirige el doctor Larch. La niña no llora; mas bien, parece enfadada. La enfermera del orfanato que sale a buscarla ve como a lo lejos, en la oscuridad, se alejan dos mujeres. Casi diez años despues, en St. Clouds siguen sin encontrar una familia de acogida para esa niña, llamada Esther. Precisamente por entonces, los Winslow, un matrimonio que vive en New Hampshire, deciden adoptar un hijo mas, pero recorreran varios orfanatos antes de decantarse por St. Clouds. Alli les cuentan la historia de Esther, quien sera acogida por los Winslow y se convertira en una especie de angel de la guarda para su nueva familia. Su vida sera una historia de supervivencia y una profunda exploracion de la identidad y la pertenencia, y sera testigo del impacto perdurable de la Historia en nuestras vidas.

La última gran novela de John Irving, una historia majestuosa de amor y de familia que es también un emocionante alegato a favor de la libertad.«Poderosamente cinematográfica.» The Washington Post «A

Una dona difícil és un tríptic sobre la vida de Ruth Cole. La novel·la s'obre l'estiu de 1958, quan la Ruth tan sols té quatre anys i viu a l'ombra de la separació imminent dels seus pares i els fantasmes dels germans morts.La retrobem al cap de trenta anys, convertida en una novel·lista de renom pero insatisfeta. El triptic es tanca el 1995, quan la Ruth, vidua i mare, esta a punt d'enamorar-se per primera vegada.

Supervivència, identitat i l’impacte de la història en les nostres videsL’Esther Nacht, protagonista d’aquesta novel·la, és jueva i òrfena. Nascuda a Viena el 1905, es va traslladar amb els pares a M

John Irving revisits the world of *The Cider House Rules* in this novel about a Jewish orphan in 20th-century Maine.

Supervivència, identitat i limpacte de la història en les nostres videsLEsther Nacht, protagonista daquesta novel·la, és jueva i òrfena. Nascuda a Viena el 1905, es va traslladar amb els pares a Main

Born a Parsi in Bombay and educated in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen, an orthopedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Periodically, he returns to India. Once 20 years ago, Dr Darwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, he is reacquainted with the murderer.

La novela más valiente y comprometida de John Irving.Esta novela de John Irving, situada en la primera mitad de nuestro siglo, cuenta la historia del Dr. Wilbur Larch -santo varón y obstreta, eteradicto y abortista, director de un orfanato- y la de su huerfano favorito, Homer Wells, quien nunca consigue ser adoptado. El Dr. Larch siente la obligacion moral de liberar a las madres pobres de un embarazo no deseado, antes que admitir en un asilo a sus hijos abandonados. Homer Wells, a quien Larch quiere como a un hijo, al crecer se niega en cambio a acabar con una vida humana. La novela es, claro, mucho mas que un libro sobre el aborto, aun asi tratado por Irving con un excepcional conocimiento historico, medico, legal, filosofico y moral ; es tambien una saga en la mejor tradicion del siglo XIX -y de Irving-, que sigue a varios personajes peculiares, todos mal nacidos, marcados por su extrañeza en esta tierra, pero todos heroes, autenticos principes y reyes de su propia existencia

''A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking. You know it is true. It is also terrific'' The Washington Post ''Like all great works of art, Irving''s novel seems always to have been there, a diamond sleeping in the dark, chipped out at last for our enrichment and delightAs approachable as it is brilliant, Garp pulses with vital energy'' Cosmopolitan

"AN OLD-FASHIONED, BIG-HEARTED NOVEL . . . with its epic yearning caught in the 19th century, somewhere between Trollope and Twain . . . The rich detail makes for vintage Irving." The Boston Sunday Globe "The Cider House Rules is filled with people to love and to feel for. . . . The characters in John Irving''s novel break all the rules, and yet they remain noble and free-spirited. Victims of tragedy, violence, and injustice, their lives seem more interesting and full of thought-provoking dilemmas than the lives of many real people." The Houston Post "John Irving''s sixth and best novel . . . He is among the very best storytellers at work today. At the base of Irving''s own moral concerns is a rare and lasting regard for human kindness." The Philadelphia Inquirer "Entertaining and affecting . . . John Irving is the most relentlessly inventive writer around. He proliferates colorful incidents and crotchets of character. . . . A truly astounding amount of artistry and ingenuity." The San Diego Union

"The first of my father''s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels." So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany. "Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice." Time "Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book." Los Angeles Times "Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity." Cosmopolitan ...

"Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning-after implications." The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author''s generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving''s cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests and illusions they perpetrate on each other; but the sexual intrigue between them demonstrates how even the kind can be ungenerous, and even the well-intentioned, destructive. "One of the most remarkable things about John Irving''s first three novels, viewed from the vantage of The World According to Garp, is that they can be read as one extended fictional enterprise. . . . The 158-Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft." Terrence Des Pres

The main character of John Irving''s second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tractand a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...."Three or four times as funny as most novels."THE NEW YORKER

It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller.