Jonathan Safran Foer

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

Tras una década de espera, por fin llega la nueva novela del autor del best seller Todo está iluminado.Aquí estoy es la historia de una familia norteamericana judía que se rompe al tie

Una narración creativa, tierna y delicada, una historia de amor y supervivenciaOskar, un niño ingenioso y sensi­ble, encuentra una caja con una llave escondida entre las pertenen­cias de su padre, qu

El cambio climático es un problema real y podemos hacer algo para solucionarlo: cambiar lo que comemos a diario.La mayoría de los libros que abordan la crisis del medioambiente son densos, académicos y estan repletos de estadisticas impersonales. Este no es uno mas. Es accesible, inmediato y ofrece una solucion clara que los lectores pueden poner en practica inmediatamente. El principal porcentaje de las emisiones globales de CO2 proviene de las granjas industriales. Dejar de comer carne es dificil y nadie es perfecto, pero reducir su consumo es mucho mas facil y tiene un efecto positivo e inmediato en el medio ambiente. Solo cambiando nuestra cena (y comiendo carne solo una vez al dia) es suficiente para cambiar el mundo. Mezclando ensayo, reportaje periodistico y su propia biografia, historia y actualidad, Jonathan Safran Foer se mete de lleno en uno de los principales dilemas de nuestra epoca de una forma urgente, creativa y sorprendente.

La primera novela de Jonathan Safran FoerTodo está iluminado cuenta el viaje de un joven judío norteamericano en busca de sus orígenes, que le llevará a Ucrania para encontrar a la mujer que sup

Jonathan Safran Foer has long had a passion for the work of the twentieth-century American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Inspired by Cornell's avian-themed boxes, and suspecting that they would be similarly inspiring to others, Foer began to write letters. The responses he received from luminaries of American writing were nothing short of astounding. Twenty writers generously contributed pieces of prose and poetry that are as eclectic as they are imaginative, and the result is a unique collaborative project and one of the most significant engagements of literature with art for many years

Una primera novela que ha sido una revelación en EE.UU. Su autor, con precoz y arriesgada maestría, describe las peripecias de un atribulado joven judío de Nueva York que parte con destino a Ucrania, para conocer sus raíces y desvelar el misterio de su legendario abuelo. Divertida, trágica y conmovedora.

This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington DC, three sons watch their parents' marriage falter and their family home fall apart.God asked Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, and Abraham replied obediently, 'Here I am'.This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington DC, three sons watch their parents' marriage falter and their family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a larger catastrophe is engulfing another part of the world: a massive earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking a pan-Arab invasion of Israel. With global upheaval in the background and domestic collapse in the foreground, Jonathan Safran Foer asks us - what is the true meaning of home? Can one man ever reconcile the conflicting duties of his many roles - husband, father, son? And how much of life can a person bear?

Ambientata a Washington durante quattro, convulse settimane, "Eccomi" e la storia di una famiglia in crisi. Mentre Jacob, Julia e i loro tre figli sono costretti a confrontarsi con la distanza tra la vita che desiderano e quella che si trovano a vivere, arrivano da Israele alcuni parenti in visita. I tradimenti coniugali veri o presunti, le frustrazioni professionali, le ribellioni adolescenziali e le domande esistenziali dei figli, i pensieri suicidi del nonno, la malattia del cane: tutto per Jacob e Julia rimane come sospeso quando un forte terremoto colpisce il Medio Oriente, innescando una serie di reazioni a catena che portano all'invasione dello stato di Israele. Di fronte a questo scenario inatteso, tutti sono costretti a confrontarsi con scelte a cui non erano preparati, e a interrogarsi sul significato della parola casa.

A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, Abraham! to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, Here I am. Later, when Isaac calls out, My father! to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, Here I am.How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foers first novel in eleven years--a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.

A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down …

A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a "blind" old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down.

The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning is Jonathan Safran Foer on top form - inventive, funny and full of surprises.

Oskar Schell, living in New York, is nine years old and precocious (his interests range from astrophysics to playing the tambourine), and all his intelligence is called into play when his father dies in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Left with an envelope containing a key and a one-word clue, Oskar tries to find out what door the key opens. In the end, he is successful, after a city-wide odyssey that also includes a mysterious man in Germany, Oskar's grandmother, a production of HAMLET at his school, and the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. Oskar's tale is supplemented with the musings of some of the other characters, including his grandfather, whose description of his survival of the bombing of Dresden is an unforgettable chapter. Jonathan Safran Foer enriches his intriguing novel with the very postmodern device of illustrations--intriguing in themselves--that illuminate the story.

A writer journeys to the farmlands of eastern Europe to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Passionate and marked by an indelible humanity, "Everything Is Illuminated" mines the black holes of history and is ultimately a story about searching: for people and places that no longer exist and for the tales that link past and future.

Oskar Schell es un niño de nueve años muy especial, dotado de una aguda sensibilidad y de un talento versátil, que, tras perder a su padre aquel 11 de septiembre de 2001, encuentra entre los enseres del difunto un sobre con la palabra Black escrita en el dorso y una llave en su interior. Inmediatamente el pequeño decide que esa llave resolvera el misterio del ultimo dia de su padre, explicara por que estaba en las torres, cual fue el motivo de su muerte. Empieza asi la peculiar e insolita odisea de Oskar por la herida ciudad de Nueva York en busca de todas las personas, lugares u objetos relacionados con el misterioso sobre. Al tiempo que el fantasma de su padre se dibuja en la telaraña de Manhattan, se iluminan tambien los origenes de Oskar y la historia de sus abuelos, huidos de Dresde durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En Tan fuerte, tan cerca Jonathan Safran Foer consigue convertir la tragedia en misterio, y al contar los secretos de un hombre cuenta la historia del siglo XX. La segunda novela de Jonathan Safran Foer es todo lo que uno esperaba que fuera: ambiciosa, pirotecnica, intrigante y extraordinariamente conmovedora. Un logro excepcional. SALMAN RUSHDIE La opinion del editor: Tras la celebrada Todo esta iluminado, Jonathan Safran Foer lleva a cabo en su segunda novela la primera recreacion literaria del atentado de las torres gemelas y supera incluso la hondura y la originalidad de su opera prima.

Todo está iluminado, su primera obra de ficción, es una novela muy divertida, con una intriga que corta la respiración, honda, trágica, conmovedor. la historia cuenta el viaje del autor a Ucrania, adonde se dirige para tratar de encontrar los origenes de su familia y el misterio que envuelve a la figura de su abuelo, que logro escapar milagrosamente de los nazis.