Nick Cave

Este libro, creado a partir de más de cuarenta horas de conversaciones íntimas con el periodista Seán O’Hagan, es una exploración profundamente reflexiva, en palabras del propio Cave, de lo que realm

Cancionero bilingüe (1978-2019) de Nick Cave, desde sus canciones para The Birthday Party hasta muy aclamados álbumes como Murder Ballads, Henry’s Dream y Dig, Lazarus, Dig! hasta su último t

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life. Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O'Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful explora

Una novela tan inclasificable como portentosa, un auténtico regalo literario.Bunny Munro vende cosméticos puerta a puerta y aprovecha su actividad para seducir y desplumar a todas las mujeres solitarias que se le ponen a tiro. Cada una de sus jornadas por la costa meridional inglesa es una expedicion delirante movida por su lascivia y lastrada por la presencia de su hijo de nueve años, al que no puede dejar con nadie desde que su madre se suicidara. El dia a dia de Bunny, acompañado de Bunny Jr., es una continua sucesion de escenas surrealistas salpicada por todos los oscuros placeres que permitese tan excentrico vendedor de cosmeticos. Juntos caminaran hacia un final tragicomico y convulso, el unico colofon posible a su existencia.La muerte de Bunny Munro es una autentica maravilla literaria, mas alla del interes que pueda despertar la figura, poliedrica y fascinante, de su autor."Bunny es un antiheroe de proporciones epicas, un alcoholico decrepito, una mancha de nicotina, un monstruo constantemente alimentado de cocaina en busca de una aventura priapica o de lo que el denomina, en un momento de lirismo no atipico, "el jodido Valhalla de los coños"." Sean OHagan, The Guardian"Cave bebe de estilistas como Nabokov o John Updike, pero en la crudeza, las resacas y la obsesion por el sexo del personaje que ha creado resuenan las historias de Bukowski."El Pais"Priapo, vendedor, muerto; quiza Bunny Muro no sea un hombre cualquiera, pero todos los hombres deberian leer este libro. Deberan leerlo entre lagrimas y puntos de sutura." David Peace"La muerte de Bunny Munro no solo es una lectura maravillosa, sino tambien desgarradora. Cave escribe sus novelas igual que las letras de sus canciones, a golpes de sangre, azufre y rayos. Ataca al corazon y a la mente, es capaz de poner a sus lectores de rodillas." Neil Labute"En esta novela lo verdaderamente importante no son las tesis de Cave, sino la calidad de la prosa y esa combinacion magistral de comedia negra y sentimiento." Matt Thorne, Independent"Nick Cave vivira eternamente porque tiene al diablo aterrorizado." Rolling Stone

Bunny Munro vende productos de belleza y el azaroso perfume del adulterio a las solitarias damas de la costa meridional inglesa. Viéndose a la deriva tras la muerte de su esposa, se lía la manta a la cabeza y sale por ultima vez a la carretera con su hijo de nueve años a cuestas. Una historia de humor escalofriante, una comedia antiheroica, una amargura, contada con agudeza, rabia y estilo.

The Death of Bunny Munro recounts the last journey of a salesman in search of a soul. Following the suicide of his wife, Bunny, a door-to-door salesman and lothario, takes his son on a trip along the south coast of England. He is about to discover that his days are numbered. With a daring hellride of a plot The Death of Bunny Munro is also a modern morality tale of sorts, a stylish, furious, funny, truthful and tender account of one man's descent and judgement. The novel is full of the linguistic verve that has made Cave one of the world's most respected lyricists. It is his first novel since the publication of his critically acclaimed debut And the Ass Saw the Angel twenty years ago.

The Death of Bunny Munro recounts the last journey of a salesman in search of a soul. Following the suicide of his wife, Bunny, a door-to-door salesman and lothario, takes his son on a trip along the south coast of England. He is about to discover that his days are numbered. With a daring hellride of a plot The Death of Bunny Munro is also modern morality tale of sorts, a stylish, furious, funny, truthful and tender account of one man's descent and judgement. The novel is full of the linguistic verve that has made Cave one of the world's most respected lyricists. It is his first novel since the publication of his critically acclaimed debut "And the Ass Saw the Angel" twenty years ago.

Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife's death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle of one man's judgement, The Death of Bunny Munro is also an achingly tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.

This complete collection of Nick Cave lyrics spans his entire career, from his writing for The Birthday Party through the highly acclaimed Murder Ballads and The Boatman's Call to new albums No More Shall We Part, Nocturama, Abattoir Blues and The Proposition. Brought together in one volume for the first time, these lyrics make up one of the most outstanding achievements of contemporary music.

A compulsive read possessing all Nick Cave's trademark horror and humanity - Irvine Welsh.

Y EL ASNO VIO AL ÁNGEL es una novela que quien la lea nunca la podrá olvidar. Su personaje principal, Euchrid Eucrow, es el producto de varias generaciones incestuosas de consumidores de aguardiente. Con malformaciones físicas y mudo de nacimiento, pero poseído por una sensibilidad fuera de lo común, que oculta bajo una simpática e indestructible fanfarronería; vive en una aislada comunidad de cultivadores de caña dominada por una estricta y peculiar secta religiosa, los ukulitas. Subyugado por las manías y obsesiones, en ocasiones terroríficas y a veces hilarantes, de una madre monstruosa y un padre medio psicótico, y por la constante mofa del resto de la comunidad, Euchrid aprende a encontrar refugio en un mundo propio, el del corazón de la ciénaga en los confines del pueblo. Pero incluso ese cobijo seguro le es negado, y cuando su sensación de soledad y de resentimiento acaba volcándose sobre una impostora inocente pero privilegiada, aceptada en el seno de la comunidad ukulita, Euchrid va hundiéndose gradualmente en el autoengaño y en la demencia, culminando con un acto que deja caer sobre él la terrible venganza del valle. Pese a ser la primera y única novela, hasta la fecha, del cantante pop australiano Nick Cave, miembro fundador del legendario grupo de rock «The Birthday Party» y de su actual banda «The Bad Seeds» además de colaborador musical del director alemán Wim Wenders en su película «El cielo sobre Berlín»; la historia de Euchrid, con sus pasajes épicobíblicos, sus milagros, visiones y digresiones obsesivas, es una comedia macabra, profundamente mordaz, tramada con brillantez y asombrosamente escrita.

Num vale desolado do sul da América, infestado de pregadores e profetas fanáticos e ignorantes, vive Euchrid Eucrow, mudo de nascença, filho de uma mãe alcoólica e violenta e um pai obcecado em torturar animais. Posto de parte pela comunidade, Euchrid suporta em silêncio as agressões da mãe e a indiferença do pai. Quando os populares declaram que uma menina órfã é uma eleita de Deus, Euchrid fica perturbado, pois vê-a de uma forma muito diferente. Em resultado desta sua convicção, o rapaz fica ainda mais isolado na comunidade, que aponta o dedo à sua crescente insanidade. Atormentado por uma terrível solidão, Euchrid não tardará a querer vingar-se de todos os que fazem da sua vida uma caminhada insuportavelmente dolorosa.

Um romance irreverente de um músico de culto. "Estou lixado" pensa Bunny Munro, num súbito momento de autoconsciência reservado a quem está prestes a morrer. Depois do suicídio da mulher, Bunny Munro, caixeiro-viajante, parte com o filho numa viagem pela costa sul de Inglaterra e cedo descobre que tem os dias contados. Mais do que para vender cosméticos, Bunny viaja em busca da sua alma. Com um enredo alucinante, este romance é também uma fábula mordaz e sincera dos nossos tempos. Vibra com a mesma energia que fez de Cave um dos autores de letras mais respeitados do mundo. "Se juntarmos Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka e Benny Bill numa estalagem à beira-mar, em Brighton, o resultado talvez seja A Morte de Bunny Munro. Este romance destaca-se como a obra de um dos melhores contadores de histórias dos nossos tempos; uma leitura compulsiva marcada pelo misto de horror e humanidade tão próprios de Nick Cave." Irvine Welsh "Garanhão, vendedor, cadáver… Bunny Munro não é um qualquer, mas todos devem ler este livro. Entre lágrimas e gargalhadas." David Peace

This is the complete collection of Nick Cave lyrics spanning his entire career, from 1978 until 2013, revised and updated by the cult rock star. "He is an Australian artist like Sidney Nolan is an Australian artist - beyond comparison, beyond genre, beyond dispute". (from Nick Cave's induction into the Australian Hall of Fame). This complete collection of Nick Cave's lyrics spans his entire career, from his writing for The Birthday Party through the highly acclaimed Murder Ballads and The Boatman's Call to recent work with Grinderman and his 2013 album, Push the Sky Away. Brought together in one volume, these lyrics make up one of the most outstanding achievements of contemporary music. Switching between the cynical and the sanguine, the defeated and the defiant, Nick Cave deals in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, pants, money, flowers and so much more...From the bestselling author of And the Ass Saw the Angel and The Death of Bunny Munroe this definitive collection will be adored by Nick Cave fans everywhere. "His lyrics deal with passion on the edge, and are peopled with mad bayou preachers, black-hearted lovers and killers. His language is rich, poetic, apocalyptic". (Guardian). "Richly poetic creations which live a second life on the page...Essential reading". (Vox). Nick Cave was born in Australia in 1957. He moved to London with his band The Birthday Party in 1990 and four years later he formed The Bad Seeds, with whom he has made 15 studio albums. In recent years he has made two albums with his other band, Grinderman. In 1999 he curated and directed the Meltdown Festival at London's South Bank Centre. He has also written the soundtrack for a number of successful films including The Assassination of Jesse James, Lawless and The Proposition. His novel And the Ass Saw the Angel was an international bestseller, Time Out's Book of the Year, and was reissued in the Penguin Essential series. His second novel The Death of Bunny Monroe was published in 2009. He lives in Brighton with his wife and two children.

'Bible-black humour...enough visitations, portents and religious lunacy to qualify as the second-greatest story ever told' - "Elle". 'It is as if a Faulkner novel had been crossed with "Whistle Down the Wind" and then narrated by a stoned blues musician' - "Daily Telegraph".

The world is a hard place to be good in...Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife's death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle of one man's judgement, The Death of Bunny Munro is also an achingly tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.