Paul Hoffman

"The Sanctuary of the Redeemers"Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary." The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the One True Faith.

The Left Hand of God is the story of sixteen-year-old Thomas Cale, who has grown up imprisoned at the Sanctuary of the Redeemers, a fortress run by a secretive sect of warrior monks in a distant, dystopian past. He is one of thousands of boys who train all day in hand-to-hand combat, in preparation for a holy war that only the High Priests know is now imminent. The Left Hand of God is the first novel in an epic, ambitious trilogy that will prove irresistible to the readers who have turned the Inheritance Cycle, Twilight, and the His Dark Materials series into publishing phenomena.

''Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary''. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers: vast, desolate, hopeless. Where children endure brutal cruelty and violence in the name of the One True Faith. Lost in the Sanctuary''s huge maze of corridors is a boy: his age uncertain, his real name unknown. They call him Cale. He is strange and secretive, witty and charming - and violent. But when he opens the wrong door at the wrong time he witnesses an act so horrible he must flee, or die. The Redeemers will go to any lengths to get Cale back. Not because of the secret he has discovered. But because of a more terrifying secret that lies undiscovered in himself.

When Steven Grlscz saves a young woman from throwing herself in front of a train he finds himself consumed by a love affair which transforms her from a suicidal, angry anorexic into a happy and beautiful young woman. Then she vanishes without trace. Across the Thames on the morning George Winnicott, former head of the Anti-Terrorist Squad, is to begin his new job in charge of the City of Londons most powerful anti-fraud body, he wakes from a nightmare screaming that he knows the meaning of life. Later that day, a huge bomb explodes in the centre of London. How are these events linked? What connects modern economics, murderous love, parachuting, pornography, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, financial fraud, terrorism, aliens, artificial intelligence, the meaning of life and the hardest crossword clue in the world? 13 years in the writing, this is a novel that engages with the way the modern world works and in admitting that contemporary life is complex, impenetrable and often terrifying, it also thrills to the patterns emerging from the chaos.

Paul Erdös, el matemático más prolífico y excéntrico de nuestro tiempo, renunció a todas las comodidades materiales, incluso la de un hogar, para dedicarse al estudio de los números. Entregó su amor

Muerte, Juicio, Infierno y Gloria. Éstas son Las Cuatro Postrimerías. Pero ha llegado la Quinta. Tenéis que conocer a Tomas Cale. Thomas Cale ha aceptado su destino. De vuelta en el Santuario de los Redentores, ha oido al padre Militante afirmar que la humanidad, la peor obra de Dios, su mayor error, debe ser destruida. Y esta dispuesto a convertirse en ejecutor de ese fin.Sin embargo, puede ser que Thomas Cale solo este simulando haber aceptado su papel de Angel de la Muerte. Puede que ese joven que pasa del amor mas arrebatado al odio mas intenso en un abrir de ojos, que cambia la amabilidad por la extrema violencia en una milesima de segundo, no pueda acatar las ordenes de los Redentores ni aun creyendo obedecerles. Porque esta en manos de Cale la aniquilacion del mundo, pero ¿conoce el mismo lo que esconde su alma?Despues del exito de La mano izquierda de dios, en Las cuatro postrimerias Paul Hoffman nos ofrece una nueva aventura oscura, divertida y perturbadora a un tiempo, donde la fantasia se parece a la realidad de manera inquietante y ningun personaje es nunca quien aparenta ser.

As a young man, Paul Hoffman was a brilliant chess player . . . until the pressures of competition drove him to the brink of madness. In Kings Gambit, he interweaves a gripping overview of the history of the game and an in-depth look at the state of modern chess into the story of his own attempt to get his game back up to master level -- without losing his mind. Its also a father and son story, as Hoffman grapples with the bizarre legacy of his own dad, who haunts Hoffmans game and life.

«Escuchad: el Santuario de los Redentores en Peña Shotover se llama así por una cochina mentira, pues por allí redención hay poca, y santuario aún menos». El Santuario de los Redentores es un lugar e

Después de La mano izquierda de dios y Las cuatro postrimerías, llegaBatir de alas y el encuentro definitivo de Cale con su destino.Thomas Cale ha estado huyendo de la verdad. Desde que descubrió que su brutal formacion militar obedecia a un solo proposito ? la destruccion del mayor error divino, la humanidad- Cale vive bajo la amenaza fantasmal del hombre que le convirtio en Angel de la Muerte: el papa redentor Bosco. Pero Cale no ha dicho todavia su ultima palabra: la suerte de la humanidad esta en sus manos.Tercera y ultima entrega de la exitosa trilogia de fantasia LA MANO IZQUIERDA DE DIOS.

"A funny, marvelously readable portrait of one of the most brilliant and eccentric men in history." --The Seattle Times Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in history. Like a traveling salesman offering his thoughts as wares, Erdos would show up on the doorstep of one mathematician or another and announce, "My brain is open." After working through a problem, hed move on to the next place, the next solution. Hoffmans book, like Sylvia Nasars biography of John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, reveals a geniuss life that transcended the merely quirky. But Erdoss brand of madness was joyful, unlike Nashs despairing schizophrenia. Erdos never tried to dilute his obsessive passion for numbers with ordinary emotional interactions, thus avoiding hurting the people around him, as Nash did. Oliver Sacks writes of Erdos: "A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject--he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until the day he died. He traveled constantly, living out of a plastic bag, and had no interest in food, sex, companionship, art--all that is usually indispensable to a human life."The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is easy to love, despite his strangeness. Its hard not to have affection for someone who referred to children as "epsilons," from the Greek letter used to represent small quantities in mathematics; a man whose epitaph for himself read, "Finally I am becoming stupider no more"; and whose only really necessary tool to do his work was a quiet and open mind. Hoffman, who followed and spoke with Erdos over the last 10 years of his life, introduces us to an undeniably odd, yet pure and joyful, man who loved numbers more than he loved God--whom he referred to as SF, for Supreme Fascist. He was often misunderstood, and he certainly annoyed people sometimes, but Paul Erdos is no doubt missed. --Therese Littleton