Jonathan Raban

In a brave new post-9/11 world jumpy Seattle bears little resemblance to the city Lucy Bengstrom dreamed of as a girl. Living alone with her eleven-year-old daughter Alida, she looks to her journalism to make sense of it all. Yet with Alida drifting into adolescence and the home she's built up for them under threat, it's clear to Lucy that life is changing. Finding herself under intense scrutiny and faced with her toughest assignment yet, she begins to rebel against everything her personal and professional life has taught her. 'Chastening and darkly funny ...For all its gloomy prognostications on the way society is heading, "Surveillance" will only leave you wanting more' - Anthony Quinn, "Daily Telegraph". '"Surveillance" is a work that confirms Raban as one of the most original commentators on the times in which we live' - William Skidelsky, "New Statesman". 'A dense human comedy about truth and lies ...He writes easily, his prose is relaxed, conversational, his observations shrewd ..."Surveillance" is a novel for and about a US in which everyone wants to be American and in which security is the new terror.Raban's offbeat narrative is a cautionary one dealing with the upheaval of the crisis known as Now' - Eileen Battersby, "Irish Times".

Jonathan Raban's caustic novel takes place in post-Y2K Seattle, where Tom Janeway is caught in the trajectory of current events (WTO riots, Al Qaeda fears) and his own deteriorating life, which includes the departure of his wife and not one but two brushes with the law. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands, a place the size of England and the least visited region in all of the United States. Here he came across the ruins of a community and isolated homesteads. These homes, he realized, gave clues as to the characters and lives of the thousands of landless people who, seduced by the advertising of the railroad companies in the early 20th century, took the train West in search of new lives and a permanent agricultural community. What had happened to turn these homesteaders' hopes of a new beginning into such despair? The land which betrayed them turned out to be an America in miniature. This is their story.

At the turn of the millenium, two immigrants are drawn to the US by their own versions of the American Dream. But Tom is unjustly accused of a horrific crime and Chick has no safe place to lay his be

El Pasaje Interior que va del golfo de Puget a Alaska es tortuoso, turbulento y profundo: se trata de una antigua ruta marina de miles de kilómetros, rica en remolinos y otros peligros, en la que florecióla cultura de la canoa de las Indias Noroccidentales. El desdichado barco británico Discovery, capitaneado por George Vancouver, pasó por estos estrechos pasos en 1792 y, tras él, comerciantes depieles, colonos, misioneros, antropólogos, pescadores y turistas, cada uno con sus propios planes acerca de este mar complejo y encantado. Cuando Jonathan Raban partió en solitario en su barcodesde su hogar de Seattle hasta el Panhandle de Alaska, su intención era resolver los muchos enigmas y significados del mar a través del arte y la mitología indios o los diarios de Vancouver y susoficiales. Su travesía, que comenzó como una aventura intelectual, pronto se encontró en unas aguas más profundas y peligrosamente personales de lo que había previsto. Así, este libro es no sólo elrelato de un viaje al corazón salvaje de Norteamérica sino también una profunda exploración del lado más agreste del corazón humano.