Paul Murray

Una tragicomedia irlandesa tan hilarante como desgarradora. Les presentamos a los Barnes, una familia irlandesa infeliz de cuatro maneras diferentes.El padre, Dickie, regenta un concesionario de coches heredado de su progenitor. Las cosas le iban razonablemente bien hasta que la crisis economica (y quiza tambien su heterodoxa labia de vendedor) empezo a afectar a las ventas. La madre, Imelda, viene de una familia humilde y es conocida por ser la mujer mas hermosa del pueblo. En realidad, ella estaba enamorada de Frank, el hermano carismatico y fallecido de Dickie, y ahora ambos arrastran un pasado con zonas oscuras.En cuanto a los hijos: Cass es una adolescente en pleno descubrimiento del sexo y el alcohol que sueña con dejar esa maldita ciudad provinciana y marcharse a estudiar a Dublin. Mientras, mantiene una relacion ambivalente, de devocion rabiosa, con su amiga del alma Elaine. Y el benjamin, PJ, sufre acoso en el colegio y teme que sus padres se divorcien, por lo que se refugia en los videojuegos. Alli conecta con un amigo virtual que puede no ser lo que parece...Y entonces Dickie Barnes se obsesiona con el colapso ecologico y se empeña en construir un refugio en los bosques cercanos, aunque acaso

Una tragicomedia irlandesa tan hilarante como desgarradora.Les presentamos a los Barnes, una familia irlandesa infeliz de cuatro maneras diferentes.El padre, Dickie, regenta un concesionario de coches heredado de su progenitor. Las cosas le iban razonablemente bien hasta que la crisis economica (y quiza tambien su heterodoxa labia de vendedor) empezo a afectar a las ventas. La madre, Imelda, viene de una familia humilde y es conocida por ser la mujer mas hermosa del pueblo. En realidad, ella estaba enamorada de Frank, el hermano carismatico y fallecido de Dickie, y ahora ambos arrastran un pasado con zonas oscuras.En cuanto a los hijos: Cass es una adolescente en pleno descubrimiento del sexo y el alcohol que sueña con dejar esa maldita ciudad provinciana y marcharse a estudiar a Dublin. Mientras, mantiene una relacion ambivalente, de devocion rabiosa, con su amiga del alma Elaine. Y el benjamin, PJ, sufre acoso en el colegio y teme que sus padres se divorcien, por lo que se refugia en los videojuegos. Alli conecta con un amigo virtual que puede no ser lo que parece...Y entonces Dickie Barnes se obsesiona con el colapso ecologico y se empeña en construir un refugio en los bosques cercanos, aunque acaso lo que esta a punto de colapsar no sea el planeta, sino su familia.Paul Murray, que con esta esplendida obra resulto finalista del Premio Booker 2023, sale triunfante del siempre dificil reto literario de la tragicomedia: lleva al lector de la carcajada a la congoja y ofrece una de las miradas mas demoledoras, divertidas y memorables sobre la familia. Una novela brillante y profundamente humana, de lectura absorbente, llamada a convertirse en un clasico instantaneo.

WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER S BEST BOOKS OF 2023Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times New Yorker The Sunday Times The Economist Observer Guardian Washington Post Lit Hub TIME magazine Irish Times The Oldie Daily Mail i Paper Independent The Standard The Times Kirkus Daily Express City A M A tragicomic triumph You won t read a sadder truer funnier novel this year GuardianThe Barnes family are in trouble Until recently they ran the biggest business in town now they re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and that s just the start of their problems Dickie and Imelda s marriage is hanging by a thread straight A student Cass is careening off the rails PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them but everyone s too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming Generous immersive sharp witted and devastating the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life Financial Times Paul Murray is the undisputed reignin

In this comprehensive history of the Irish Boundary Commission, Paul Murray looks at British attempts from 1886 on to satisfy the Irish Nationalist demand for Home Rule, Ulster and British Unionist resistance to this demand, the 1920 partition of Ireland and the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, where the roots of the establishment of the Commission are to be found. The evidence presented at the Commission and the principles on which it based its decisions are analysed against the background of evolving British views on the dangers posed for British and Unionist interests on both islands by a radical redrawing of the 1920 border. New documentary evidence is brought to bear on the motivation of its Chairman Justice Feetham, his susceptibility to external influences, and the significance of his political background as possible factors in his final decisions. The history of the Irish Boundary Commission is shown to also be part of a larger European narrative. This study is, thus, the first large-scale attempt to consider its significance in its wider international context.

This is a comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy Dies Workaholic French banker Claude is so busy making money from Ireland's economic crisis he has no time for romance. Then he meets mysterious writer Paul, who says he wants to put Claude in a book. Next thing Claude knows, he's falling in love with beautiful Greek waitress, Augustina. But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on Claude's side at all? And why is Claude's new boss staking all of their money on losing propositions? Is anyone in this whole town telling the truth? Praise for Skippy Dies: "A triumph." (Sunday Times). "A masterpiece". (Metro). 'A comic epic' (David Nicholls). Paul Murray is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes and Skippy Dies. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and Skippy Dies was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award

Claude is a Frenchman who lives in Dublin. His birth place is famed as the city of lovers, but so far love has always eluded him. Instead his life revolves around the investment bank where he works. And then one day he realises he is being followed around, by a pale, scrawny man. The man''s name is Paul Murray.Paul claims to want to write a novel about Claude and Claude''s heart sings. Finally, a chance to escape the drudgery of his everyday office life, to be involved in writing, in art! But Paul himself seems more interested in where the bank keeps its money than in Claude- and soon Claude realises that Paul is not all he appears to be....

Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori, the Frisbee-playing Siren from the girls' school next door, suddenly all kinds of people take an interest - including Carl, part-time drug-dealer and official school psychopath. While his teachers battle over modernisation, and Ruprecht attempts to open a portal into a parallel universe, Skippy, in the name of love, is heading for a showdown - in the form of a fatal doughnut-eating race that only one person will survive. This unlikely tragedy will explode Seabrook's century-old complacency and bring all kinds of secrets into the light, until teachers and pupils alike discover that the fragile lines dividing past from present, love from betrayal - and even life from death - have become almost impossible to read . . .

This is a comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy Dies. What links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com (yes, hots with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an ex-KGB man? You guessed it...The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies. While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. But Paul's plan is not what it seems-and neither is Claude's employer, the Bank of Torabundo, which inflates through dodgy takeovers and derivatives-trading until-well, you can probably guess how that shakes out. The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever written about a financial crisis.

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Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel Skippy Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention.

Un aspecto de la vida y obra de santo Tomás de Aquino a menudo olvidado, es su dimensión orante y contemplativa. Hoy a santo Tomás de Aquino se le consider casi en exclusiva como teólogo y filósofo especulativo. Pero ante todo fue un maestro de la Biblia. Este libro explora el acercamiento del santo a la oracion y su enseñanza sobre el tema en sus comentarios a los Salmos y a los Escritos Paulinos.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeFrom the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickies once-lucrative car business is going underbut Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, hes on the brink of running away.If you wanted to change this story, how far back would you have to go? To the infamous bee sting that ruined Imeldas wedding day? To the car crash one year before Cass was born? All the way back to Dickie at ten years old, standing in the summer garden with his father, learning how to be a real man?

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart...The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickies once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, hes spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home. Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil - can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending?One of the most gifted novelists of his generation... Funny, angry, and unputdownable Daily ExpressIve never read anything like it... One of the few true masterpieces of this young century Marlon James on Skippy Dies Sensationally good... A wild, intelligent,