Michael Cunningham
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‘Luminously written … page-turningly enjoyable, this is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist’ Sunday TimesIt’s November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and inexplicably inspired to look up at the sky, where he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Although Barrett doesn’t believe in visions – or in god, for that matter – he can’t deny what he’s seen.At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Beth, who’s engaged to Barrett’s older brother ,Tyler, is dying of colon cancer. Beth, Tyler, and Barrett have cobbled together a more or less happy home. Tyler, a struggling musician with a drug problem, is trying and failing to write a wedding song for his wife-to-be – something that will be not merely a sentimental ballad but an enduring expression of eternal love.Barrett, haunted by the light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his deepest creative powers. Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage and stoicism as she can summon.Cunningham follows the Meeks brothers as each turns down a decidedly different path in his search for transcendence. In subtle, lucid prose, he demonstrates a profound empathy for his conflicted characters and a singular understanding of what lies at the depth of the human soul.‘The Snow Queen’, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves once again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of this generation.
El libro de los días
¿Qué tienen en común un chico que se enamora perdidamente de la novia de su hermano muerto en un accidente fabril a principios del siglo XX; una psicóloga forense que investiga a un joven terrorista que planea un atentado en la Nueva York posterior al 11S; y un androide que se obsesiona con una inmigrante extraterrestre en un futuro lejano? Walt Whitman.Con toda su potencia alucinada, las palabras de Whitman y su Hojas de hierba emergen en la narración como faros que iluminan oblicuamente los deseos, traumas y pasiones de los personajes de estas tres historias electrizantes situadas en la Nueva York del pasado, el presente y el futuro, y, tal como ocurría con Virginia Woolf en Las horas (ganadora del Premio Pulitzer), le otorgan a esta conmovedora y ambiciosa novela de Michael Cunningham un sentido trascendente que la inocula para siempre en la memoria. «El libro de los días ofrece todo tipo de placeres literarios, y todos en abundancia: suspenso, hilaridad, inventiva, romance, y un pasaje tras otro de una prosa que nos deja sin aliento». Ethan Canin «Este es un libro transformador, un registro encantador y desgarrado de nuestro tiempo y lugar, y de nuestro deseo de prevalecer». The New York Observer
