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Michael Cunningham

    6 de noviembre de 1952

    Michael Cunningham crea narrativas con un agudo sentido de la sutileza psicológica, explorando la conexión humana y la búsqueda de identidad. Sus obras profundizan en las complejidades de la emoción y los momentos transformadores que dan forma a nuestras vidas. Con una profunda visión de la condición humana y una voz distintiva, ofrece a los lectores una experiencia literaria inmersiva. Su prosa es a la vez poética e incisiva, capturando la esencia de la experiencia vivida.

    Michael Cunningham
    La muerte en Venecia
    Land's End
    A Home at the End of the World
    Flesh and blood
    How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet
    Las horas
    • As the world changes, a family navigates the complexities of growing up, aging, and the ebb and flow of love, loss, and resilience. In a cozy Brooklyn brownstone, the facade of domestic happiness begins to crumble. Dan and Isabel, a troubled couple, find themselves both drawn to Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie, a free spirit living in the attic. As Robbie grapples with heartbreak and an online persona, his impending departure threatens to fracture the family. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Nathan takes tentative steps toward independence, while five-year-old Violet tries to ignore the widening chasm between her parents. As the world enters lockdown in 2020, the brownstone feels more like a prison. Violet becomes fixated on safety, fearing the outside world, while Nathan pushes against her rules. Isabel and Dan communicate through thinly veiled frustrations, and Robbie finds himself isolated in Iceland, alone with his thoughts and a secret online life. By 2021, as the family emerges from the crisis, they confront a transformed reality, reflecting on their losses and what they’ve learned. This poignant narrative explores the intricacies of love, loss, and the challenges of family life, revealing how to coexist both together and apart.

      Day2023
      3,5
    • Daddy's Weekend

      • 50 páginas
      • 2 horas de lectura

      The story revolves around the special bond between Tehya and her father as they spend quality time together. Their adventures highlight the joy of their relationship, showcasing moments of fun, learning, and connection. Through their interactions, the narrative emphasizes the importance of family and the simple pleasures of life.

      Daddy's Weekend2021
    • How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet

      • 224 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Get ready for the online adventures of one man who just wants to make friends. And one very annoyed world. Based on the ingenious Sir Michael Twitter account, How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet is the funniest book you'll read this year. Whether it's offering his services as a Karate Lawyer or Funeral DJ, devising the world's worst plan to get a free haircut, or trying to buy a blue bucket that may or may not be for sale, Michael just wants to connect with people. The only problem is that people are slightly less enthusiastic about connecting with him, and the results are utterly hilarious. Warning: you'll never think about adding someone called Michael to a group chat the same way ever again.

      How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet2020
      4,1
    • A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

      • 144 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

      A Wild Swan: And Other Tales2015
      3,6
    • The Snow Queen

      • 258 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      In November 2004, Barrett Meeks, reeling from another lost love, finds himself in Central Park, where he is inexplicably drawn to a pale, translucent light in the sky that seems to regard him with a godlike presence. Despite his skepticism towards visions and faith, he cannot ignore this experience. Meanwhile, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Beth, engaged to Barrett's older brother Tyler, is battling colon cancer. Together, they navigate a fragile yet happy existence. Tyler, a struggling musician with a drug addiction, is desperately trying to compose a wedding song that transcends mere sentimentality to embody eternal love. As Barrett grapples with the significance of the light, he unexpectedly turns to religion, while Tyler increasingly believes that drugs are the key to unlocking his creative potential. Beth confronts her mortality with courage and stoicism. The narrative follows the divergent paths of the Meeks brothers in their quests for transcendence. With subtle, lucid prose, the author captures the complexities of his characters and delves into the depths of the human soul, blending beauty and heartbreak, comedy and tragedy, affirming his status as a significant voice in contemporary literature.

      The Snow Queen2014
      3,1
    • From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of `The Hours', comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity. číst celé

      By Nightfall2010
      3,5
    • La muerte en Venecia

      • 157 páginas
      • 6 horas de lectura

      Cuando se publica La muerte en Venecia en el otoño de 1912, Thomas Mann tiene treinta y siete años, está casado y es padre de cuatro hijos. Ya ha escrito I Buddenbrook y los dos capolavoros Tristano y Tonio Kröger, y es un escritor reconocido, considerado por algunos críticos en el apogeo de su potencia narrativa. En el relato sobre la muerte de Gustav von Aschenbach, la crisis que sacude Europa permanece en el fondo. En primer plano, se presenta el retrato implacable, a veces caricaturesco, del gran autor arrastrado por la aventura artística y la pulsión erótica hacia la muerte. Se explora la pasión del protagonista maduro, la descomposición moral y la pérdida del autocontrol. Mann narra de manera a menudo paradójica y enfática la patología de la vocación estética, la disciplina y el culto a la perfección formal, así como las estrategias de defensa contra el desorden. Representa la cultura y la belleza como una disminución del impulso vital, como una corrupción de la vida y los valores burgueses. Venezia se presenta como el fondo ambiguo y hermoso de estos eventos, un homenaje a la gran literatura de fin de siglo y al decadentismo europeo.

      La muerte en Venecia2009
      3,8
    • Specimen days

      • 308 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      This is one of the most anticipated novels of this or any other year, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours.

      Specimen days2005
      3,6
    • Land's End

      • 175 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Provincetown, physically remote, and heartbreakingly beautiful, has been amenable and intriguing to outsiders for as long as it has existed. Written by the author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, this work brings us Provincetown, one of the extraordinary towns in the US, perched on the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod.

      Land's End2002
      3,9
    • Una mañana de 1923, en un suburbio de Londres, Virginia Woolf se despierta con la idea que se convertirá en La señora Dalloway. En los años noventa, en Nueva York, Clarissa Vaughan compra flores para una fiesta en honor de Richard, un antiguo amigo enfermo de SIDA que ha recibido un importante premio literario. En 1949, Laura Brown, un ama de casa de Los Angeles, prepara una tarta de cumpleaños para su marido con la ayuda de su hijo pequeño. Éstas son las tres mujeres, y los momentos de partida, de Las horas, una emotiva novela que se adentra en el mundo de Virginia Woolf con extremada sensibilidad e inteligencia. Al igual que la protagonista de su obra, los personajes se debaten entre la soledad, la desesperanza y el amor por la belleza y la vida hasta unirse en un trascendente final.

      Las horas1998
      4,0
    • An epic tale of three generations of an American family--and the ambition, violence, deceptions and hard-won love that shapes their lives. Rich in vivid details and masterfully crafted characters' lives, and narrated in a voice of great emotional power and sensitivity, Flesh and Blood is an unforgettable, moving and stunning portrait of contemporary America.

      Flesh and blood1995
      4,1
    • A Home at the End of the World

      • 344 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      'One of the finest novels I have read in years' John Banville, Observer 'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places . . . ' Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a life for themselves. In the harsh and uncompromising world of the seventies and eighties, they are outsiders, misfits, dreamers without a blueprint. But as they form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love - questioning so much about the world around them - so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live. 'Intensely, almost painfully intimate. A superb and major novel' David Leavitt 'A writer of great gifts. Cunningham's voice reaches that lyrical beauty in which even the grimmest events suggest their potential for grace' TheNew York Times Book Review 'As well as being fluent and attractive, this intimate saga of our times is immensely wise' Mail on Sunday 'Cunningham writes with power and delicacy of his three characters. Yet each one retains the mystery that in people is called soul, and in fiction is called art' TheLos Angeles Times

      A Home at the End of the World1991
      4,0