Learning to Die
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
"Thrown off course by a shocking diagnosis, five friends confront the realities of money, meaning, marriage, and mortality, in this vivaciously intelligent novel about how to live and die.".
Thomas Maloney Libros
Thomas Maloney es un autor contemporáneo cuya obra está profundamente arraigada en la investigación intelectual, probablemente derivada de su formación en física. Explora temas complejos a través de una lente narrativa única, invitando a los lectores a considerar preguntas profundas sobre la existencia y la condición humana. Su prosa se caracteriza por su precisión y poder evocador, creando mundos inmersivos que resuenan mucho después de la última página.
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017 WANTED: Diligent volunteer to carry out two months’ painstaking archival work for private library. Board and lodging provided; curiosity and imagination rewarded. When Samuel Browne’s wife unexpectedly leaves him, his world crumbles — until he spies this job advert hidden between the pages of a second-hand book. It leads him deep into the English countryside, to a new job in a cold and ancient house. Sam must find a lost letter, hidden in a library of eighteen thousand books. As he sets to work under the watchful eyes of the house’s eccentric inhabitants, he soon realises that this is not the only mystery that this strange, seductive place holds …