Michael Chabon

The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man's sexual identity.

Un chico acude a la boda de su prima con la esperanza de seducir a alguna invitada y acaba en brazos de la novia... Dos ex amantes que llegaron a odiarse tanto que en la separación hasta sus tesor

En su largo retiro en la campiña inglesa, un anciano de ochenta y nueve años, que según rumorean los lugareños fue años atrás un famoso detective, vive apartado del mundanal ruido. Un día irrumpe en su ordenada vida Linus Steinman, un muchacho mudo que ha escapado de la Alemania nazi con un loro gris como único compañero. ¿Qué significa la misteriosa cadena de números en alemán que el loro repite incesantemente? ¿Acaso esconde un código secreto de las SS, o es un mero sinsentido? La solución de este último caso llevará al viejo sabueso más lejos de lo que jamás imaginó. La solución final, nueva novela del célebre escritor Michael Chabon, reinventa el clásico relato detectivesco decimonónico y lo convierte en una historia de suspense moderna.

En la línea de Scott Fitzgerald, en estas historias aparecen personajes vagamente grotescos, jóvenes matrimonios que bailan y coquetean con extraños en fiestas glamurosas en las que siempre está a punto de suceder algún desastre. Los jóvenes hombres lobo que dan nombre a este libro son dos adolescentes cuyos mundos fantasiosos y marginales conectan cuando uno de ellos es expulsado del colegio y el otro se enfrenta al divorcio de sus padres. «Entre los jóvenes valores de la actual literatura norteamericana, Michael Chabon es probablemente el menos abiertamente experimental y el que mejor conecta con las mejores virtudes del clasicismo de la llamada generación del The New Yorker, es decir, escritores como Truman Capote, J. D. Salinger o John Cheever .»

En la impresionante recreaci#n del Nueva York de los a#os cuarenta que ilumina esta historia caben el amor, los celos, la bohemia y las reflexiones sobre la creaci#n art#stica, sin olvidar la ternura y el humor. Nueva York, 1939. Joe Kavalier, un joven artista entrenado en las artes del escapismo del maestro Houdini, acaba de lograr su mayor proeza: huir de la Praga ocupada por los nazis. Su objetivo es triunfar en Am#rica, ganar dinero r#pidamente, y as# poder liberar a su familia de las garras del imperio nazi. Joe se instala en Brooklyn, donde entabla amistad con su primo Sammy Clay. Los dos chicos se lanzan al incipiente mercado del c#mic, creando un superh#roe jud#o que viajar# a Europa para luchar contra Hitler. Galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2001, Las asombrosas aventuras de Kavalier y Clay -como Pastoral americana, de Philip Roth, o Submundo, de Don Delillo- es una obra maestra universal. La cr#tica ha dicho..."Uno de los tres libros m#s importantes de mi generaci#n."Bret Easton Ellis "Una prosa que puede cubrir seiscientas p#ginas de fantas#a e historia social de un solo salto."Time

Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures-from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories-in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales. They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can-as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they've left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances. None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado . . . not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at leastsupply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there-along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of-will be much more than half the fun.

Gentlemen of the Road is set in the Kingdom of Arran, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, A.D. 950. It tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soul mates, variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves, and flimflam artists-until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles following a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars. Hired as escorts for a fugitive prince, they quickly find themselves half-willing generals in a mad rebellion, struggling to restore the prince's family to the throne. As their increasingly outrageous exploits unfold, they encounter a wondrous elephant, wily Rhandanite tradesman, whores, thieves, soldiers, an emperor, and the truth about their young royal charge, whose slender frame conceals a startling secret and a warrior's heart.

En esta magnífica historia, ambientada en el Nueva York de los años 40, dos chicos judíos de Brooklyn crean a un superhéroe del cómic -también judío- capaz de viajar a Europa para acabar con Hitler. La novela narra la historia de Sam y Joe, dos chicos judíos de Brooklyn que en los primeros días de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se meten en el negocio de los comics y crean un héroe llamado Escapista, un superhéroe judío que viaja a Europa a luchar contra Hitler. En la aluncinante recreación del Nueva York de los años cuarenta que sigue a continuación caben el amor, los celos, la bohemia, las reflexiones sobre la creación y toda una serie de elementos que recrean nuevamente el mundo glamuroso de Chabon, un mundo que nunca deja de ser tierno, optimista ni divertido y que, sorprendentemente, nunca resulta cursi.

Michael Chabon reinventa el cl#sico relato detectivesco decimon#nico y lo convierte en una historia de suspense moderna. En su largo retiro en la campi#a inglesa, un anciano de ochenta y nueve a#os, que seg#n rumorean los lugare#os fue a#os atr#s un famoso detective, vive apartado del mundanal ruido. Un d#a irrumpe en su ordenada vida Linus Steinman, un muchacho mudo que ha escapado de la Alemania nazi con un loro gris como #nico compa#ero. #Qu# significa la misteriosa cadena de n#meros en alem#n que el loro repite incesantemente? #Acaso esconde un c#digo secreto de las SS, o es un mero sinsentido? La soluci#n de este #ltimo caso llevar# al viejo sabueso m#s lejos de lo que jam#s imagin#. La soluci#n final, nueva novela del c#lebre escritor Michael Chabon, reinventa el cl#sico relato detectivesco decimon#nico y lo convierte en una historia de suspense moderna.

By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommen

The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay'What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska - and not Israel - had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'Alyeska', Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the streets of Sitka, where Detective Meyer Landsman discovers the corpse of a heroin-addled chess prodigy in the flophouse Meyer calls home. Marionette strings stretch back to the hands of charismatic Rebbe Gold, leader of a sect that seems to have drawn its mission statement from the Cosa Nostra - but behind Rebbe looms an even larger shadow... Despite sensible protests from Berko, his half-Tlingit, half-Jewish partner, Meyer is determined to unsnarl the meaning behind the murder. Even if that means surrendering his badge and his dignity to the chief of Sitka's homicide unit - also known as his fearsome ex-wife, Bina.The Yiddish Policemen's Union interweaves an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir with a bittersweet fable of identity, home and faith. It is a novel of colossal ambition and heart from one of the most important and beloved writers working today.

Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union', offers his first major work of non-fiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels. A shy manifesto; an impractical handbook; the true story of a fabulist; an entire life in parts and pieces: 'Manhood for Amateurs' is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own: as a series of reflections, regrets and re-examinations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past. What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as it goes on being written every day. As a son, a husband, and above all as a father of four young children, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played - on different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in a new key - by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, hilarious and moving, 'Manhood for Amateurs' is destined to become a classic

Le district de Sitka, en Alaska, est le nouvel Israël. Y vivent deux millions de Juifs parlant le yiddish. L'inspecteur Meyer Landsman, de la brigade des homicides, est chargé de faire régner la paix dans cette communauté désobéissante et encline aux mystères. Ainsi, dans un hôtel minable, Landsman découvre un junkie assassiné qui s'avère être le fils du plus puissant rabbin de Sitka, le chef des verbovers, des Juifs ultra-orthodoxes. Des ordres venant de l'étranger exigent la clôture de l'enquête mais Landsman s'obstine : ce mort lui plaît et il refuse de laisser son assassinat impuni… Le rabbin aurait-il commandité le meurtre de son fils ? Dans quel but ? Et quels liens entretient la communauté verbover avec d'étranges commandos parlant hébreu ? Dans une tradition typiquement américaine, Michael Chabon emprunte à tous les genres avec allégresse : légendes des émigrés juifs d'Europe de l'Est, roman noir, roman d'anticipation, critique politique de l'après - 11 Septembre et réflexion morale sur les dérives religieuses. Hommage à Chandler et à Charyn, Le Club des policiers yiddish, lauréat du prix Hugo 2008 va être adapté au cinéma par les frères Coen (The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country for Old Men...) et a reçu un accueil enthousiaste aux États-Unis : " Une réussite, comme si Raymond Chandler et Philip K. Dick avaient fumé un joint en compagnie d'Isaac Bashevis Singer… " New York Review of Books.

Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policeman's Union, offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels. A shy manifesto; an impractical handbook; the true story of a fabulist; an entire life in parts and pieces: Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon.

Ganador del premio Pulitzer 2001, autor de libros consagrados por crítica y público en EE.UU. En esta magnífica historia, ambientada en el Nueva York de los años 40, dos chicos judíos de Brooklyn crean a un superheroe del comic -tambien judio- capaz de viajar a Europa para acabar con Hitler.

This novella by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay', is a short, suspenseful tale based around a retired detective and a refugee from

Meet Awesome Man - a brand new superhero, who's out of this world! The first picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon perfectly captures the fantasy life of young superhero fans. Awesome Man can shoot positronic rays out of his eyeballs, fly as straight as an arrow and hug mutant Jelly! Even villains like Professor Von Evil and the flaming Eyeballs are no match for this caped crusader. But Awesome Man also has his secret! Can you guess what it is?