Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.
A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George has a murderous temper, and when George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both must seek absolution. Harry finds himself suddenly playing parent to his brother’s two adolescent children, tumbling down the rabbit hole of Internet sex, dealing with aging parents who move through time like travelers on a fantastic voyage. As Harry builds a twenty-first-century family created by choice rather than biology, we become all the more aware of the ways in which our history, both personal and political, can become our destiny and either compel us to repeat our errors or be the catalyst for change. May We Be Forgiven is an unnerving, funny tale of unexpected intimacies and of how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together.
Los primeros nueve meses de la presidencia de Donald Trump han sido
tempestuosos, atroces… y absolutamente fascinantes. Gracias a su acceso
privilegiado al ala oeste, Michael Wolff cuenta en este libro explosivo cómo
ha iniciado Trump un mandato que apunta tan volátil como él mismo. Fuego y
furia narra con todo lujo de detalles el caos que reina en el despacho oval y
revela qué piensan realmente de Trump quienes trabajan para él. También qué
condujo al presidente a afirmar que Obama había intervenido sus conversaciones
telefónicas, por qué fue despedido el director del FBI James Comey, cuál es el
secreto para comunicarse con Trump, por qué el jefe de estrategia Steve Bannon
y el yerno de Trump, Jared Kushner, no pueden estar en la misma habitación y
quién está a cargo de la estrategia de la administración Trump tras el despido
de Bannon…Nunca antes un presidente había dividido de tal forma a los
estadounidenses. Fuego y furia nos cuenta cómo y por qué Donald Trump se ha
convertido en el rey de esa discordia.
