Liz Dunn's quiet existence is upended by young Jeremy--the son she abandoned--who is now a charming lost soul with a terminal illness who triggers a chain of events that takes Liz to the other si
Meet Liz Dunn -- a good woman who has become very good at being lonely. Then, after 25 years apart, her amazing 25-year-old son returns into her life. And, at 40, suddenly, she is no longer alone, and must decide what matters more: peace, certainty or love? Once upon a time Liz Dunn was the loneliest girl in the world. One starry night, far from home, she told a stranger she was tired of being lonely. So, he tried to put an end to all that. Twenty-five years later, into her life walks, for the very first time, her son Jeremy. And everything changes. Liz has in the interim learned to live with loneliness, and become rather expert at it, as well as being sparky, competent and sarcastic when necessary. Now, with Jeremy in her life, she has to abandon her certainties as her world expands...This is a novel irradiated by hope and illuminated by trust, that also fizzes with whirls in Vienna, romance in Rome, mayhem in Frankfurt and visions in Vancouver. It is blessed with the commanding presence of an unforgettable heroine in Liz Dunn, with whom Douglas Coupland ascends to a new level of peace and grace in his ever-more-amazing career as an artist of rare capabilities.
Following the hugely acclaimed bestseller Hey Nostradamus! comes a major new novel from Douglas Coupland: the wonderfully warm, funny, life-affirming story of Liz Dunn, a woman who has spent her whole life alone and lonely - until now! This is a brilliant work of commercial literary fiction from an author who just gets better and better. 'My name is Liz Dunn. The Liz Dunns of this world take classes in croissant baking, and would rather chew on soccer balls than deny their children muesli. They own one sex toy, plus one cowboy fantasy that accompanies its use! Look at me: I am a traitor to my name: I'm not cheerful; I'm drab. I'm crabby and friendless. And lonely.' Liz Dunn is 42 years old, and lonely. Her house is like 'a spinster's cell block', and she may or may not snore - there's never been anybody to tell her. Then one day in 1997, with the comet Hale Bopp burning bright in the blue-black sky, Liz receives an urgent phone call asking her to visit a young man in hospital. All at once, the loneliness that has come to define her is ripped away by this funny, smart, handsome young stranger, Jeremy. Her son. Eleanor Rigby is a tale of loneliness and hope that introduces Douglas Coupland's finest character yet. Illuminated by a wonderfully gentle, searching wisdom, it sees Coupland ascend to a new level of peace and grace in his ever-more-extraordinary career.
Corre la década de los sesenta en Damasco cuando el joven Farid conoce a la hermosa e inteligente Rana. La atracción mutua es irresistible, pero, para su desgracia, pertenecen a familias cristianas que se odian a muerte: los Mushtak, católicos, y los Shahin, de tradición greco-ortodoxa. Desde el primer momento, la relación entre los jóvenes se convierte en un desafío inaceptable a la ley de los clanes rivales, un amor condenado a la clandestinidad y el exilio. La suerte de los amantes a lo largo de varias décadas concita una nutrida galería de personajes difíciles de olvidar. Y como formidable marco de esta historia está Damasco, ciudad misteriosa y fascinante, que palpita en estas páginas a través de una visión íntima pero certera de una cultura marcada por las convulsiones políticas y religiosas, y de un mundo en el que el valor del individuo queda relegado ante el poder omnipresente de la familia. Tesela a tesela, Schami ha compuesto un impresionante mosaico de Oriente Próximo, desde el fin del imperio Otomano hasta nuestros días, un panorama de enfrentamientos y revueltas, tramas secretas y dictaduras que abarca desde Siria al Líbano, pasando por la diáspora en Arabia, Europa y América.
Cheryl Anway is 'no longer a part of the world and still not yet a part of what follows'. She was pregnant, but she isn't any longer. The morning she went into school to tell her boyfriend - well, secret husband, in fact - Jason that they were going to have a baby was the last morning she spent alive. It was a beautiful day in Vancouver, and the world had seemed 'unbearably pretty' to Cheryl. She was sitting with her girlfriends in the school cafeteria as the gunfire started, and they watched the three malcontents, students who had dressed up like duck-hunters, give death to their schoolmates one lunch-hour, before turning on them...Ten years on, Jason is the kind of guy you sometimes see, sitting in his car, staring out in silence at nothing in particular - with, sometimes, a dog at hand to indicate his ability to sustain a relationship. And his family is not one to fall back on for support: Jason's father loves what God loves, hates what God hates; his mother is lost to drink; his brother is lost to dogma. Jason himself moves between black-outs and all-too-clear memories of the school shootings and their aftermath. But as moves in and out of his own life, between body and sou
Este libro mezcla de reportaje y ficción explora el mundo que existió a principios de los noventa, cuando la década era joven y aún tenia que encontrar su propia textura. Ahora releo estos artículos y es como si abriera un cajon de la cocina y encontrara una caja de Kleenex llena de Polaroids y postales cargadas ya de nostalgia. Espero que las imagenes fotograficas del libro contribuyan a acentuar esa sensacion de hojear antiguas cartas llenas de recuerdos.
