The Invention of Everything Else is a tremendously powerful and moving exploration of human loneliness and isolation, and the opposing powers of emotional and scientific imagination. Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that nest in the hotel, Louisa discovers that the mysterious guest is Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant - and most neglected - inventors of the twentieth century. The Invention of Everything Else charts the relationship of the girl and the genius during the last week of Tesla's life, when sinister forces are closing in on him. However, as well as being an engaging literary mystery, this exceptional novel movingly tells the life story of this extraordinary man and also recounts the heartbreak and redemption of one ordinary family..
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Arrow (Random)
ISBN: 9780099524007
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 272
Tiempo de lectura:
5h 35m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 02/03/2009
Año de edición: 2009
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Samantha Hunt
Samantha Hunt (Nova York, 1971) és novel·lista, assagista i escriptora de relats curts. Ha publicat diverses obres, i ha gaudit del reconeixement de diversos premis. La invenció de tota la resta (Bard Fiction Prize, 2010; finalista Orange Prize, 2009), el seu primer llibre traduït al castellà i al català, ve de la mà de Jordi Puntí, una de les veus més importants del panorama literari català dels últims anys.