Anne Tyler

La mejor cronista de la vida familiar (Daily Mail), ganadora de los premios Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle y Pen/Faulkner, regresa con una de sus mejores novelas: una historia llena de humor y esperanza sobre el amor, la familia y la afirmacion de la independencia. Gail Baines ha tenido un mal dia. No esta segura de si ha dejado su trabajo de forma voluntaria o si la han echado. Es la vispera de la boda de Debbie, su hija, y esta no ha tenido la delicadeza de invitarla al dia de spa organizado por su futura consuegra. Para terminar de rematar todo, su exmarido Max se ha instalado en su casa sin avisar, cargado con un gato y sin tan siquiera un traje para asistir a la boda. Pero la verdadera crisis llega cuando Debbie les confia un secreto, del que acaba de enterarse, sobre su futuro marido, que podria dar al traste con el enlace, ademas de remover el pasado de Gail y Max. Una novela construida sobre las alegrias y los sinsabores del amor, el matrimonio y la vida familiar, narrada con la sensibilidad, el mordaz sentido del humor y la maestria de la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer.La critica ha dicho: Un ironico juego de espejos sobre el paso del tiempo, [...] una hilarante y honda historia de simetrias y equivocos que demuestra como la calidad literaria reside en la manera en que se cuenta algo que puede resumirse en una linea.Aloma Rodriguez, El Mundo - La Lectura La autora tiene una habilidad extraordinaria para construir personajes llenos de vida, que se revelan a traves de los gestos, los silencios, las miradas, las conversaciones de apariencia trivial, sin necesidad de largas descripciones. [...] Es una novelista con la mirada afilada, que logra una inmersion en ese reducido circulo familiar con cercania, naturalidad y ternura.Cristina Ros, The Objective ¿Puede ser maravillosa una novela que no habla de nada en particular? Si, porque la cotidianeidad tambien tiene su encanto. Asi lo relata Anne Tyler [en] una historia de amor, familia e independencia. Begoña Alonso, Elle Una novela tan oscura como cotidiana [en la que] la ganadora del Pulitzer esgrime una serie de tramas que le permiten abordar sus temas predilectos:la familia, la fragilidad, la resiliencia y, finalmente, el perdon.Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review ¿Necesitas un abrazo? Lee lo ultimo de la gran Anne Tyler.Minnesota Star Tribune Las frases de Tyler son inequivocamente suyas, reconocibles al instante e imposibles de copiar.Hanya Yanagihara Unade nuestras escritoras de ficcion mas importantes; si por mi fuera, ya tendria el Premio Nobel.Julie Myerson, The Guardian Si Anne Tyler no es la mejor escritora del mundo, ¿quien lo es?.BBC Heredera de Atwood.Elena Mandacen, Glamour Cada nueva novela de Anne Tyler es una maravillosa rareza en el panorama literario de nuestro pais. [...] Si la mejor ficcion consiste en hacer de la cotidianidad virtud, sin recurrir al artificio, la estadounidense es una maestra del genero.Ines Martin Rodrigo, 24 EspañaLeerla es una gozada, un abrazo a la vida, un recorrido por una hermosa forma de escribir, transparente.Publico La mejor cronista de la vida familiar....

L'Abby Whitshank sempre comença a explicar de la mateixa manera la història de com va enamorar-se del seu marit, Red Whitshank, un dia que bufava una brisa suau, el 1959. Tota la família —les dues fi

Barnaby Gailtin has less in life than he once had. His ex-wife Natalie left him and their native Baltimore several years ago, taking their baby daughter Opal with her, and he has acquired an unalterably fixed position as the black sheep of the family in a family where black sheep arent tolerated.

Another quiet masterpiece from the author of The Accidental Tourist - a funny, poignant and unsettling novel about marriage, families and the triumph of hope over experience. On a beach holiday, 40-year-old Cordelia Grinstead walks away from her family, and just keeps walking. She re-invents herself in a new town as a serious-minded woman without ties. But gradually the messy emotions of family life catch up with her once more.

Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one.At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country.The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman - and her nine-year-old daughter, and her dog - will lead Willa into uncharted territory. Surrounded by new and surprising neighbours, she is plunged into the rituals that make a community, and takes pleasure in the most unexpected things.A bittersweet novel of hope and regret, fulfilment and renewal, Clock Dance brings us the everyday life of a woman who decides it's never too late to change direction, and choose your own path. 'She is and always will be my favourite author' Liane Moriarty

Caleb Peck vanished in 1912, a voluntary refugee from an all-embracing Peckness of the Pecks. Sixty-one years later his half brother Daniel is still on trial, helped by his grand-daughter Justine, a character cursed with a Peckish necessity to see every side of a question. The moving search for the family's deepest roots, from the ragtime era at the end of the last century to small town America in the mid seventies is a haunting story about growing up and breaking away, rebellion and acceptance.

Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tylers funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an outsider. Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORWhen Pearl Tulls husband, Beck, abandons her she pours her energies into preserving normality. Now, as Pearl lies on her deathbed, the impact of Becks abrupt departure unspools: on Cody who cant overcome his anger, on mild Ezra who must always keep the peace, and on bright, errant Jenny.

When Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron that some people simply didnt notice. The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leave

Kate Battista ha ventinove anni, vive a Baltimora e si sente in trappola. Tocca a lei occuparsi del padre scienziato, l'eccentrico e dispotico dottor Battista, tocca a lei badare alla sorella quindicenne con le sue manie da fanatica vegetariana. E anche al lavoro, salta sempre fuori qualche problema: i bambini della scuola materna la adorano, ma i genitori gradiscono un po' meno certi suoi metodi insoliti e sbrigativi. Altre sono le preoccupazioni del dottor Battista, che dopo anni di carriera accademica sente finalmente di avere per le mani una scoperta importante. Le sue ricerche sulle malattie autoimmuni sono a un punto di svolta, ma e necessario che Petr Scerbacev, il suo brillante e insostituibile assistente russo, non lo abbandoni proprio adesso; e invece purtroppo il visto di Petr sta per scadere. Un modo per farlo restare in America, pero, ci sarebbe, e allora, come sempre, il dottor Battista chiede soccorso a Kate, e sara un grido d'aiuto quasi commovente, per quanto assurdo. Da spirito indipendente e anticonformista qual e, la bisbetica Kate si lascera domare, a modo suo. C'e, in questa effervescente riscrittura della "Bisbetica domata", tutto lo humor raffinato che e il marchio di fabbrica di Anne Tyler. E noi lettori ci ritroviamo con il sapore pieno e agrodolce di una commedia cha fa splendere di leggerezza una figura femminile ribelle, devota, amabilissima.