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Laura van den Berg Libros
Laura van den Berg crea narrativas que profundizan en las complejidades de la experiencia humana con una mezcla distintiva de lo extraño y lo profundo. Sus historias a menudo exploran temas de identidad, pérdida y la búsqueda de significado en circunstancias ambiguas. Los lectores se sienten atraídos por su habilidad para generar suspense y ofrecer giros sorprendentes, demostrando un dominio de la narración breve. La distintiva voz de Van den Berg ilumina rincones a menudo invisibles de la psique humana con precisión y empatía, marcándola como un talento literario contemporáneo significativo.
In this collection of stories, the author explores the lives of women who are mired in secrecy and deception. Ranging from the inscrutability of a marriage to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience, these stories are linked by mystery and by women who are at once vulnerable and dangerous, bighearted and ruthless - who will do what it takes to survive.
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
- 224 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
"I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg's first story collection since her prizewinning book The Isle of Youth, draws readers into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and the mind. Both timeless and urgent, these eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg's trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. Moving from the peculiarities of Florida to liminal spaces of travel in Mexico City, Sicily, and Iceland, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears is uncannily attuned to our current moment, and to the fears we reveal to no one but ourselves."--Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/I-Hold-Wolf-Ears-Stories/dp/1250798663
Find Me
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
Things I will never forget: my name, my made-up birthdayâe¦The dark of the Hospital at night. My motherâe(tm)s face, when she was young. Things other people will forget: where they come from, how old they are, the faces of the people they love. The right words for bowl and sunshineâe¦What is a beginning and what is an end. Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with silver blisters and memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune. Laura van den Berg's critically acclaimed debut novel is at once a hauntingly beautiful portrayal of a dystopian future and a powerful exploration of loneliness.
Havanna, die Liebe und der Tod - die traumwandlerische Reise einer außergewöhnlichen Frau Mit einem Flug ins sommerliche Kuba beginnt für Clare eine flirrende Reise in die Vergangenheit. Erst wenige Wochen zuvor hat sie ihren Mann Richard bei einem Unfall verloren. Nun besucht sie auf seinen Spuren ein Filmfestival in Havanna, als Richard plötzlich überraschend vor ihr steht. Kann sie ihren Sinnen trauen oder will jemand sie täuschen? Clare folgt der geheimnisvollen Gestalt durch die Gassen der Stadt und gedanklich bis in die Grauzonen ihrer Ehe und Kindheit. Van den Bergs traumwandlerischer Roman spielt mit den Grenzen unserer Wahrnehmung, lässt Fantasie und Wirklichkeit auf wunderbare Weise verschmelzen. Eine poetische Geschichte über das Reisen und das Trauern, erzählt von einer originellen, starken Frauenstimme.
