Donna Tartt
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Language
English
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
Author
Language
English
Description
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
4) El jilguero
Author
Publisher
LUMEN
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
EL PRIMER CLÁSICO DEL SIGLO XXI, PREMIO PULITZER MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS EN TODO EL MUNDO Y UNO DE LOS 100 MEJORES LIBROS DEL SIGLO XXI SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES «El jilguero es una de esas rarezas que aparecen pocas veces, una novela literaria escrita con audacia, que conecta con las emociones del lector. Un triunfo.»
Stephen King, The New York Times
Al empezar El jilguero vamos enfocando una habitación de hotel en Amsterdam....
5) El secreto
Author
Publisher
LUMEN
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
30 ANIVERSARIO
POR LA AUTORA DE EL JILGUERO, GANADORA DEL PREMIO PULITZER «La historia del misterioso asesinato que sigue fascinando treinta años después.»
BBC «Una auténtica maravilla. [...] Contundente, sólida e impecablemente contada.»
The New York Times
«Donna Tartt es una escritora increíblemente buena: profunda, sugerente. Una narradora extraordinaria.»
Stephen King UNO DE LOS 18 MEJORES LIBROS DE MISTERIO SEGÚN ESQUIRE La vida no...
Author
Publisher
LUMEN
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Formats
Description
La determinación de una niña de doce años por llegar al fondo del crimen que se llevó a su hermano cuando ella era solo un bebé. La novela que demostró que Donna Tartt tenía mucho más que decir.
Desde siempre, los Cleve han tenido la sana costumbre de rememorar juntos la historia familiar. Todos hablan de todo, pero nadie se atreve a recordar aquella tarde de verano en que el pequeño Robin apareció ahorcado en un árbol del patio trasero...
7) True grit
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Language
English
Description
It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Theodore "Theo" Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.