Arjaan van Nimwegen Libros

"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 him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America, and a drama of almost unbearable acuity and power. It is a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art"--

When the construction of their dream cabin on an isolated Alaskan island is interrupted by an early Arctic winter, Gary and Irene find their marriage unraveling as they become stranded with their daughter, Rhoda, who watches helplessly as her parents drift further apart.

Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, commits suicide on the deck of his boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood. Finally, Roy lays his father's ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge.

Un da̕ de invierno, Anna Kerrigan, una nią de apenas doce aǫs, acompaą a su padre a una mansin̤ de Manhattan Beach, delante del mar, en el barrio neoyorquino de Brooklyn. Su propietario es Dexter Styles, un hombre que ella intuye crucial para la supervivencia de su padre y de su familia. Ese encuentro la marcar ̀para siempre, tanto por la fascinacin̤ que le despertar ̀el mar como por el misterio latente que percibe entre los dos hombres. Aǫs ms̀ tarde, su padre desaparece sin dar explicaciones y el pas̕ entra en guerra.