Anne Tyler

Alrededor de una mesa, y ahondando en las emociones de una familia, Anne Tyler (Pulitzer 1989) ha construido un mundo donde cada lector encontrará su propia historia.Quizá se equivocó quien dijo que todas las familias felices se parecen, porque incluso la charla cordial de una familia reunida alrededor de la mesa revela el malestar de quien come y calla, la angustia de quien habla demasiado y el vacio que deja ese plato puesto para alguien que nunca acudira a la cena.Pearl, una mujer de ochenta y cinco años, no quiere caminar hacia la muerte sin recordar los momentos importantes de su vida, empezando por aquella noche de domingo de 1944 en que su marido se puso cuatro trapos en la maleta y le conto que se iba, sin decir donde ni porque.A la mañana siguiente, faltaba alguien en la mesa del desayuno, pero la mujer no se atrevio a contar la verdad a sus hijos; lo que hizo fue aprender a disimular, educando a Cody, Jenny y Ezra como mejor supo, pero olvidandose a menudo de regalarles caricias y buenas palabras.Los años fueron pasando, y ahora Cody es un hombre obsesionado por acumular afecto y dinero que no le pertenecen y Jenny busca una felicidad improbable en los hombres que la acompañan. Ezra es el unico que parece disfrutar de la vida entre las cuatro paredes de su restaurante: es alli donde la familia se reune, pero siempre hay un sitio vacio a la espera de que alguien llegue o vuelva... Alrededor de ese vacio, de ese plato abandonado, Anne Tyler ha construido un mundo donde cada lector encontrara su propia historia.La critica ha dicho... Con esta novela, Anne Tyler se ha superado a si misma. John Updike, The New YorkerTyler consigue devolvernos la fe en el arte y la necesidad de la novela. Jose Luis de Juan, El Pais

How does a man addicted to routine cope with the chaos of everyday life? Macon does his best. He writes Armchair Tourist guidebooks that soothe the travel-hating businessman. Even when his son, Ethan, is murdered and his wife leaves him, Macon folds his anguish neatly back into place and adapts the household routine on to more efficient lines. So when he meets Muriel, dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic - thin, chaotic, outrageous, vulnerable - he considers that his defences against love and pain are in excellent working order. Bending glorious comedy with aching sadness, Anne Tyler's novel maps out the landscape of a man's hesitant heart with tenderness, sharpness and unputdownable truth.

La búsqueda de Caleb, el hermano de su abuelo que un buen día desapareció hace 60 años, se convierte para Justine en la búsqueda de su propia vida. Buscando a Caleb comienza en un vagón del tren que va de Baltimore a Nueva York. Dentro del vagon hay dos personas, un hombre y una mujer. El es Daniel Peck, un juez retirado, sordo y canoso. Ella es Justine Peck, su nieta, una joven echadora de cartas que no acaba de encontrar su lugar en el mundo. Ambos esperan dar con alguna pista que los lleve hasta Caleb, el hermano de Daniel, que desaparecio sin dejar rastro sesenta años atras. A partir de este inicio, Anne Tyler nos adentra en la desgarradora e hilarante historia de los Peck y narra la busqueda de la libertad por parte de una mujer que acabara por hallarla en sus propios origenes. Una muestra de la desoladora ironia, el ritmo brillante y la genial capacidad de observacion que han convertido a Tyler en una de las maestras de la ficcion estadounidense contemporanea.La critica ha dicho..."Los Peck son maravillosos. Me resulta imposible transmitir la magia de este libro... Estos personajes parecen formar parte de nuestras propias vidas y la busqueda de Caleb se convierte en algo tan importante para nosotros como lo es para ellos.

The new bestseller from Anne Tyler: a story about two ordinary people so intertwined they cannot be separated - even by death ... Anne Tyler is a bestselling and prizewinning author - The Amateur Marriage was a top 10 bestseller in hardback and paperback; Digging to America and The Amateur Marriage were both shortlisted for the Orange Prize; Tyler was shortlisted for the International Man Booker in 2011 The Beginner's Goodbye is Tyler at her best - quirky, charming, poignant, beautifully precise - all the ingredients her fans love Whole backlist now available as ebook 'My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby, Independent on Sunday.

Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises - a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, Noah's Compass chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and poignancy of her classic The Accidental Tourist (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night. Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is a man who is proud of his recall but has learned to dodge issues and skirt adventure. An unpleasant event occurs, though, to jolt him out of his certainty. Obsessed with a frightening gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happened, and finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own, and a late-flowering love that brings its own thorny problems. His ex-wife (sensible Barbara) and daughters worry about him but Liam blunders on, His teenage daughter Kitty is sent to stay - though it's not clear who is minding whom. His middle daughter, Louise, is a born-again Christian with a son called Jonah, but her certainties leave Liam still more perplexed. Noah's Compass is about memory and its loss, about incidents and relationships which open up sight lines into a painful past long dead for a man who becomes aware that merely trying to stay afloat may not be enough.

Macon Leary, el protagonista de esta novela, es un hombre que vive según un rígido y complejo sistema que, teóricamente, debe ponerle a salvo de cualquier eventualidad. Si su profesión es escribir guias para viajeros que no desean moverse de casa, su vida se atiene rigurosamente al plan establecido. Pero la muerte de su unico hijo -victima absurda de un atraco- y la subsiguiente ruptura de su matrimonio, dan al traste con todas sus precauciones y le arrojan a un entorno hostil y agresivo. El turista accidental, pone en pie un mundo que se parece estremecedoramente al que nos rodea al comun de los mortales.

Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was 11 and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at 21, the accident that would make her a widow at 41. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.

Aunque las patas de gallo ya crezcan junto a sus hermosos ojos, aunque decenas de familiares -hijas, hijastras, nietos y tíos- aseguren que ya no queda tiempo para emprender un nuevo camino, Rebecca se resiste a convertirse para siempre en una persona que no es ella. Ya no le basta con reinventar la cocina tradicional en su salón de banquetes o cuidar de niños que nunca la llamarán abuela. Rebecca necesita adueñarse de su futuro. Y retoma los estudios que abandonó el día de su matrimonio, se apunta a un gimnasio, compra ropa interior de seda, se atreve a descolgar el teléfono y a marcar un número que creía olvidado. Anne Tyler, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y legítima heredera de la gran tradición de narradores sureños norteamericanos, nos habla en esta novela sobre el valor de los recuerdos y el inmenso coraje que se precisa para volver a escribir toda una vida.

Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that life can always be improved), two full sets of grandparents and a host of big-boned, confident relatives, taking delivery with characteristic American razzmatazz. Then there are the Yazdans, pretty, nervous Ziba (her family 'only one generation removed from the bazaar') and carefully assimilated Sami, with his elegant, elusive Iranian-born widowed mother Maryam, the grandmother-to-be, receiving their little bundle with wondering discretion. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as tiny, delicate Susan, wholesome, stocky Jin-ho and, later, her new little sister Xiu-Mei, take roots, become American. While Maryam, the optimistic pessimist, confident that if things go wrong - as well they may - she will manage as she has before, contrarily preserves her 'outsider' status, as if to prove that, despite her passport, she is only a guest in this bewildering country. Full of achingly hilarious moments and toe-curling misunderstandings, Digging to America is a novel with a deceptively small domestic canvas, and subtly large themes - it's about belonging and otherness, about insiders and outsiders, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right, about striving for connection and goodness against all the odds. And the end catches you by the throat, ambushes your emotions when you least expect it, as only Tyler can.

En un momento de su relación, el matrimonio formado por Ira y Maggie Morgan se da cuenta de que ha recibido lecciones sobre muchas cosas inútiles. Pero ahora ambos comprenden que nadie les ha enseñado lo más importante: cómo convivir a diario con tu pareja, o cómo afrontar la paternidad...

Con su estilo único y sensibilidad inconfundible, Anne Tyler (Pulitzer 1989) nos brinda una intensa historia ganadora del National Book Critics Circle Award en 1986, y que dio origen y título a la aclamada pelicula protagonizada por Geena Davis y William Hurt en 1988. Tras la perdida de su hijo, un aburrido escritor de guias de viaje para hombres de negocios se sumerge en una crisis de tristeza y melancolia que desemboca en la ruptura de su matrimonio. Justo entonces, conoce a una adiestradora de perros dicharachera y jovial, y con ella entabla una relacion que lo llevara a recuperar el optimismo y las ganas de vivir en un mundo que ahora, tras tantos golpes y sinsabores, parece ofrecerle una segunda oportunidad. Reseñas:"Una obra preciosa, incandescente, emotiva, estimulante... Llena de magia."The Washington Post "Brillante, conmovedora, divertida. Una de las mejores novelas de su autora."The New York Times

With the humour and poignancy of her classic The Accidental Tourist (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his school teaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night. Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is a man who is proud of his recall but has learned to dodge issues and skirt adventure. An unpleasant event occurs, though, to jolt him out of his certainty. Obsessed with a frightening gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happened, and finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own, and a late-flowering love that brings its own thorny problems. His ex-wife (sensible Barbara) and daughters worry about him but Liam blunders on, His teenage daughter Kitty is sent to stay - though it's not clear who is minding whom. His middle daughter, Louise, is a born-again Christian with a son called Jonah, but her certainties leave Liam still more perplexed. Noah's Compass is about memory and its loss, about incidents and relationships which open up sight lines into a painful past long dead for a man who becomes aware that merely trying to stay afloat may not be enough.

With the humour and poignancy of her classic The Accidental Tourist (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's brilliant new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his 61st year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his ... Show more With the humour and poignancy of her classic The Accidental Tourist (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's brilliant new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his 61st year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny little out of town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on the first night, tucking himself in tightly ...and wakes up in hospital unable to recall how he got there. Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is a man who is proud of his recall but has learned to dodge issues and skirt adventure. Obsessed with the gap in his memory, however, he sets out to uncover what happened to him, and finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own. His ex-wife, sensible Barbara, and his daughters worry about him but Liam blunders on. This is a novel about memory and memory loss, about incidents and relationships which open up sight lines into a painful past long dead for a man who becomes aware that he hasn't really been present in his own life ...There's late-flowering love, but that brings its own thorny problems. The title is the metaphor for Liam's life. One of Liam's three daughters is a born-again Christian (much to Liam's sceptical bewilderment) and her son, Jonah, colours in Bible stories. His grandson asks Liam if Noah had a gas-driven boat or a sailboat. Neither, replies Liam, he wasn't going anywhere, so he didn't need a compass either: he was just bobbing up and down, staying afloat, because the whole world was covered in water ...

Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, Noah's Compass chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and poignancy of her classic The Accidental Tourist (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he's just been let go from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night. Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is a man who is proud of his recall but has learned to dodge issues and skirt adventure. An unpleasant event occurs, though, to jolt him out of his certainty. Obsessed with a frightening gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happened, and finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own, and a late-flowering love that brings its own thorny problems. His ex-wife (sensible Barbara) and daughters worry about him but Liam blunders on, His teenage daughter Kitty is sent to stay - though its not clear who is minding whom. His middle daughter, Louise, is a born-again Christian with a son called Jonah, but her certainties leave Liam still more perplexed. Noahs Compass is about memory and its loss, about incidents and relationships which open up sight lines into a painful past long dead for a man who becomes aware that merely trying to stay afloat may not be enough.

Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager with a distant father and hours and hours of silence to fill. Then one night she hears local rock singer Drumstrings Casey on the radio—and becomes instantly attracted to his cool, motionless voice. Evie learns that Drumstrings frequently plays at a dingy roadhouse called The Unicorn. So she goes there and, with an uncharacteristically bold gesture, bursts out of her lonely shell—and into the attentive gaze of an intangible man who becomes all too real. . . .