TIM O BRIEN

Cosa e stato dell'eroico idealismo della generazione nata negli anni Cinquanta? Quando sono svaniti i sogni e quando la realta ha preso il sopravvento? Luglio 2000: al Darton Hall College del Minnesota si ritrova la classe del 1969 per un weekend da trascorrere insieme. Sono passati trent'anni e ogni laureato del '69 ha ormai alle spalle la maggior parte (quella piu importante, la piu attiva) della propria vita. Ci sono mariti, mogli, figli, professioni, successi, fallimenti, disgrazie, malattie, morti. Per due giorni Darton Hall diventa un grande confessionale. Cosi si ricostruisce un passato collettivo, un patchwork di storie individuali cucite le una alle altre e intrecciate alla piu grande Storia del paese.

«Un espléndido, estremecedor y muy sensible fresco sobre la guerra de Vietnam» (Miguel Dalmau, La Vanguardia). La supervivencia de un soldado depende de lo que lleva. En la guerra, la línea que separ

Octubre de 1968. Quang Ngai, Vietnam. Sin dar explicaciones, el soldado Cacciato decide abandonar la base de operaciones y dirigirse, caminando, a París. Nadie sabe qué ha motivado su deserción ni que espera encontrar en su destino, a mas de trece mil kil

Un roman sur l'illusion et le mensonge avec comme toile de fond les élections sénatoriales américaines.

John Wade, un prometedor político que acaba de sufrir una contundente derrota electoral, pasa unos días de descanso en una cabaña aislada en los bosques de Minnesota, con su esposa Kathy. Una noche ella desaparece. Y se plantean todas las hipotesis: ¿Se ha marchado voluntariamente? ¿Se ha perdido en el laberinto natural de los alrededores del lago? ¿Se ha ahogado? ¿Huia de su marido? ¿La ha asesinado el? Cuando el sherif pone en marcha la investigacion, afloran todos los demonios del pasado: la infelicidad conyugal, las infidelidades y sobre todo la atroz experiencia en Vietnam del marido, un hombre que de niño soñaba con ser mago y acabo participando en la tristemente celebre matanza de civiles de My Lai. Tim O?Brien, que ya habia escrito sobre la guerra de Vietnam en su celebrado Las cosas que llevaban, entre otros libros, vuelve a abordar el tema desde una perspectiva originalisima y con un planteamiento literario de gran osadia, intercalando hechos, hipotesis, documentos reales sobre las atrocidades de la guerra, citas de escritores... El resultado es un thriller psicologico que permite al lector acceder a la torturada alma de un hombre atrapado por los fantasmas de su pasado, por imagenes de una experiencia inhumana que no logra borrar de su mente. Elegida por Time co

¿Cómo puede un profesor acomodar su enseñanza para que todos los alumnos prosperen? Los autores muestran lo importante que es entender los principios de la diferenciación en la práctica educativa para acomodar la enseñanza a los diferentes ritmos de aprendizaje que se dan en un mismo aula. A lo largo del libro se ofrecen pautas y se dan ejemplos para atender a los alumnos lentos o con dificultades pero, tambien, a los superdotados. Utilizando casos concretos, reflexiones, discusiones y dialogos, los autores proporcionan consejo para cada lector.

Tim O'BrienAs he did with In the Lake of the Woods, National Book Award winner Tim O'Brien strikes at the emotional nerve center of our lives with this ambitious, compassionate, and terrifically compelling new novel that tells the remarkable story of the generation molded and defined by the 1960s. At the thirtieth anniversary of Minnesota's Darton Hall College class of 1969, ten old friends reassemble for a July weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing, and regretting. The three decades since their graduation have seen marriage and divorce, children and careers, dreams deferred and disappointed-many memories and many ghosts. Together their individual stories create a portrait of a generation launched into adulthood at the moment when their country, too, lost its innocence. Imbued with his signature themes of passion, memory, and yearning, July, July is Tim O'Brien's most fully realized work.

Thomas Chippering, profesor de lingüística, ha sido abandonado por Lorna Sue, su mujer, que, tras conseguir el divorcio, se ha ido a vivir con un millonario de Florida. La crisis fue desencadenada po

O'Brien, TimFirst published in1973, this intensely personal novel about one foot soldiers tour of duty in Vietnam established Tim OBriens reputation as the outstanding chronicler of the Vietnam experience for a generation of Americans.From basic training to the front line and back again, he takes the reader on an unforgettable journey walking the minefields of My Lai, fighting the heat and the snipers in an alien land, crawling into the ghostly tunnels as he explores the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war no one believes in.

Going After Cacciato (winner of the National Book Award in 1979) was widely acclaimed as one of the most powerful and emotionally vivid novels about Vietnam. Now, writing with the same sharp, richly expressive language, the same edgy dark humor and complete honesty, and the same rawness of nerve and energy, Tim OBrien gives us an equally powerful novel about growing up as a child of anxietythe big anxiety, the one thats been with us since the fifties, when we finally realized that Einsteins theories translated into Russian.Its 1995 and William Cowling is digging a hole in his backyard. He is forty-nine, and after years and years of pent-up terror he has finally found the courage of a fighting man. And so a hole. A hold that he hopes will one day be large enough to swallow up his almost fifty years worth of fear. A hole that causes his twelve-year-old daughter to call him a nutto, and his wife to stop speaking to him. A hole that William will not stop digging and out of which rise scenes of his past to play themselves out in his memory.The scenes take him back to his quietly peculiar adolescence (No. 2 pencils had a surprising significance), to his college days, down into the underground, and up through several stabs at normal adulthood . . . they take him from Montana to Florida, from Cuba to California, from Kansas to New York to Germany and back to Montana as he makes him way through an often mystifyingbut just as often hilarious labyrinth of fears and desires, obsessions and obligations, blessed madness and less-than-blessed sobriety . . . they take him into the lives of a shrink whos a whiz a role reversal and of a dizzying eccentric cheerleader; of radical misfits and misfit radicals; of an ethereal stewardess (the traveling mans dream); and two guerilla commandos who mix shtick and nightmare in their tactical brew. And each scene is a reminder of the unbargained-for-terror that has guided him to the bottom of his hole. For this digging is his final act of prudence and sanityhes taking control, getting there first, robbing his fears of their power to destroy . . . or so he believes. But is this act really sane? Is his daughters estimation of his emotional well-being (pretty buggo, too) the only truly sane statement being made? Is sanity even the issue? In the dazzling final scenes, William turns from the holefrom his past and from his future 0 to himself, digging deeper and deeper to find his answers.The Nuclear Age is pyrotechnically funny and moving, courageous and irreverent. It takes on our supreme unacknowledged terror (whose reality we both refuse to accept and all too easily accommodate ourselves to), finds it lunatic core, and shapes it into a story that speaks of, and to, an entire age: our own, our nuclear age. It is an extraordinary novel.

«Un espléndido, estremecedor y muy sensible fresco sobre la guerra de Vietnam» (Miguel Dalmau, La Vanguardia). La supervivencia de un soldado depende de lo que lleva. Pero un soldado también lleva su

Tim OBrien, jeune homme projeté malgré lui dans le tumulte dun conflit sanglant, celui du Vietnam, tente, vingt ans après, dexorciser les fantômes qui le hantent.Devenu écrivain, il se met lui-même e

«Un espléndido, estremecedor y muy sensible fresco sobre la guerra de Vietnam» (Miguel Dalmau, La Vanguardia).La supervivencia de un soldado depende de lo que lleva. Pero un soldado también lleva su

«Qué voz más desnuda y terrible» (Jacinto Antón, El País); «Un doloroso ejer­cicio de honestidad llevado a cabo con absoluta sinceridad y rigor. Un relato soberbiamente ejecutado» (Eduardo Lago).