Peter Carey

A Irene Bobs le encanta conducir rápido. Junto con Willie, su larguirucho navegante, Irene se embarca en laRedex Trial, una brutal carrera alrededor del continenteaustraliano por carreteras a las que ningun coche sobrevivira del todo.Muy lejos de casa es la ultima obra maestra de Peter Carey, una emotiva, divertida y emocionante historia dealta velocidad ambientada en la decada de 1950 duranteel ocaso del Imperio Britanico. Esta novela brillantemente vivida, entre motores y barrizales, ilustra como la posesion de una cultura antigua se extiende en espiral a travesde la historia, y el amor y el dolor causado en el camino.

A volume containing the stories in "The Fat Man in History" and "War Crimes", together with three other stories not previously published in book form. The author won the 1988 Booker Prize for "Oscar

Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. Australian writer Peter Carey is the author of a selection of short stories, "The Fat Man in History" and two novels, "Bliss" and "Illywhacker".

«Peter Carey, ganador de dos premios Booker, nos ofrece una espléndida historia sobre el esnobismo literario. Mi vida de farsante es una excelente versión novelesca de uno de los mayores engaños lite

For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the Underworld. "Bliss" was Peter Carey''s astonishing first novel, originally published in 1981 - a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in Hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the Underworld. As in his stories and some of his later novels, it is Peter Carey''s achievement in "Bliss" to create a brilliant but totally believable fusion of ordinary experience with the crazier fantasies of the mind. This powerful and original novel is a love story about a man who misunderstands the world so totally that he almost gets it right.

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive. Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way from Home is a thrilling high-speed story, illuminating a country''s relationship with its own ancient culture, and the love made and hurt caused along the way.

All'inizio del diciannovesimo secolo, Olivier-Jean-Baptiste de Clarel de Garmont, il miope e asmatico virgulto di un'antica stirpe nobiliare francese spodestata dalla Rivoluzione, viene spedito in un'America appena uscita da un'altra rivoluzione con il pretesto di studiare il sistema penitenziario di quel paese, ma in realtà per risparmiargli la fine del nonno, che ha lasciato la testa sotto la lama della ghigliottina. Per aiutare quest'ultimo spaesato esponente dell'Ancien Régime a orientarsi nei temibili meandri della democrazia gli si affiancherà, come domestico, segretario e spia, un più stagionato rappresentante delle classi umili d'Albione, un rosso malpelo ribelle e impudente soprannominato Pappagallo, ex 'printer's devil', cioè garzone tuttofare di una tipografia britannica specializzata in moneta falsa. Così inizia la drammatica ed esilarante avventura di una nuova e strana coppia di eroi, un servo e un padrone che non potrebbero essere più diversi ma che finiranno per diventare amici. L'ultimo libro di Peter Carey è la storia dell'incontro di un aristocratico malaticcio e schizzinoso con la giovane, forte, libera e democratica società americana, con i suoi imprenditori lanciati nel futuro e le sue donne emancipate, un incontro felice a dispetto della "maleodorante egalité" del Nuovo Mondo, che tra un colpo di scena e l'altro fornirà all'autore l'occasione di compilare un elenco spiritoso delle differenze e dei contrasti tra l'America e la vecchia Europa.

En 2002, Peter Carey, ganador del premio Booker en dos ocasiones, viajó a Japón acompañado de Charley, su hijo de doce años, en una suerte de peregrinaje. En este libro, Peter Carey traza las coordenadas de aquel viaje, inspirado por la pasion de Charley por el manga y el anime, y analiza sus conclusiones sobre Japon. Aunque inquietantes y graficamente violentas, ambas manifestaciones artisticas estan inherentemente relacionadas con la larga historia y el rico legado de Japon y atraen un interes popular e intergeneracional. Guiados por Takashi, un adolescente japones que muestra una extraña mezcla de generosidad y burla, padre e hijo buscan, a veces con consecuencias grotescas, los enigmas y significados ocultos de esas formas artisticas en un intento por entenderlas mejor y asi acercarse a lo que ellos llaman el Japon real. De Manhattan a Tokio, de Commodore Perry a Godzilla, del teatro kabuki al furor de la robotica tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Equivocado sobre Japon es una fascinante, divertida y conmovedora exploracion de dos culturas muy diferentes.

Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, the precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbour who predicts 'They will come for you, man. They'll break you out of here.' Soon Che too is an outlaw, fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels at night, as he is pitched into a journey that leads him to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland. Here he slowly, bravely, confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems. "His Illegal Self" is an achingly beautiful and emotional story of the love between a young woman and a little boy, and a wonderful journey of self-discovery

Che - raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired, teenage neighbour who predicts: They will come for you, man.

"¿Cómo puedo tener esperanza de transmitir al lector la idea que yo tengo de la belleza del puerto de Sidney? No he visto nada que se le iguale en cuanto a paisaje ceñido por la tierra, en la relación especial entre las razas, en la facil tolerancia de la delincuencia y la corrupcion, en la mezcla familiar que se puede contemplar en la acera del bar Coluzzi cualquier mañana, donde se puede encontrar a jueces y escritores y a las catalogadas con un eufemismo como identidades de raza de color, todos amontonados felizmente juntos al sol, sintiendose de alguna manera en el centro neuralgico de la ciudad". Peter Carey

Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, Che is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late 1960s. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, he bravely confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems.