Librera de Kentucky, La (Libro 1)

Estamos en 1962. La vida discurre con aparente tranquilidad en Greenwood, un suburbio de Connecticut que es la viva imagen del sueño americano: familias unidas, prósperas y felices, paseos por la playa y fiestas regadas de alcohol en bonitos jardines. Jerry Conant y Sally Mathias inician una relación adúltera y fantasean con contraer matrimonio, sin saber que sus respectivos cónyuges, Ruth y Richard, también tienen una aventura. A lo largo de cinco capítulos simétricos, la prosa luminosa y mordaz de Updike narra los vaivenes de este cuadrado amoroso y hurga en la conciencia desgarrada ...

Memoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma’s teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle dislocation of a family hit by tragedy, been evoked more poignantly than in this luminous novel. In Memoria’s multi-layered narrative, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the slow reconstruction of Emma’s outer and inner world, a world of dizzying sensuality, deep...

La maestra de primaria Beth Maple era cauta y convencional... hasta que por la puerta de su colegio apareció el tío de uno de sus alumnos y se quedó completamente fascinada.Ben Anderson era un hombre seguro de sí mismo y con un gran atractivo, y nada más verlo Beth supo que estaba fuera de su alcance. Sin embargo, nunca se había sentido tan viva como cuando estaba a su lado.

After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions -- and finds unexpected answers -- in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller. When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. ...