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Andrew Miller

    29 de abril de 1960

    Andrew Miller crea narrativas que profundizan en la experiencia humana, entrelazando a menudo temas del pasado y del presente. Su estilo distintivo se caracteriza por una prosa rica y una perspicaz visión de la psicología de sus personajes. Miller explora las complejidades de la vida y los dilemas morales con una sensibilidad única. Los lectores apreciarán su habilidad para crear mundos literarios inmersivos y que invitan a la reflexión.

    The Land in Winter
    The Optimists
    The Slowworm's Song
    Between Dog and Wolf
    Namaste Mart Confidential
    El insensible
    • El insensible

      • 379 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      En el corazón del siglo XVIII, en una sociedad que habita entre las artes oscuras del viejo mundo y la nueva luz de la Razón, sobresale la figura fascinante de James Dyer, un hombre insensible al dolor, al amor, al odio y a la compasión. Un cirujano sin alma que domina el cuchillo con tanta habilidad como desapego. Dyer vive en carne propia las consecuencias de una época triste, sugerente y terrible que privilegia la razón por encima de los sentimientos.

      El insensible
      3,8
    • Namaste Mart Confidential

      • 246 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Set in Los Angeles in 2013, the narrative explores the intertwining lives of diverse characters navigating the complexities of urban life. Themes of ambition, identity, and the pursuit of dreams unfold against a backdrop of a vibrant city. As personal stories intersect, the characters confront their pasts and aspirations, revealing deeper truths about themselves and their relationships. This rich tapestry of experiences highlights the challenges and triumphs of modern life in a city known for its allure and contradictions.

      Namaste Mart Confidential
      4,8
    • Between Dog and Wolf

      • 200 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Dogs are dogs and wolves are wolves. Except when they aren't Most scientists now agree that the dog is a subspecies of wolf Canis lupus familiaris. And while most wolves look and act differently from most dogs, it can be very hard to make accurate identifications, especially since wolves and dogs can and do interbreed and certain breeds of dogs look and act a lot like wolves. Having spent years employed at Wolf Park, in Indiana, authors Jessica Addams and Andrew Miller have encountered hundreds of so-called wolves that turned out to be dogs, hybrids that exhibit the characteristics of both wolves and dogs, and even pure wolves that act like dogs. Between Dog and Wolf takes a fascinating look at how wolves and dogs are related, why they can be so hard to tell apart and what rescue organizations need to know when they encounter a canine of unknown origins.You will learn:How and why there are so many misconceptions about wolf behavior.What evolutionary forces turned "good social

      Between Dog and Wolf
      4,4
    • The Slowworm's Song

      • 276 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work of loving.

      The Slowworm's Song
      4,2
    • Clem Glass was a successful photojournalist, fired by his conviction that only photographs could capture the world's true face. Then, in Africa, he witnesses the grotesque aftermath of a massacre and returns to London with his faith in humanity shattered. Now nothing - work, love, sex - can rouse him, and no other outlook can shift his altered vision. Not his father's Christianity, nor the new-found humanitarianism of his Canadian friend and fellow journalist. The one close relationship Clem is able to maintain is with his sister, who has been struck down by the return of a mental illness she had been free from for twenty years. Together they set up home in the rural Somerset of their childhood, and together they keep the darkness at bay. Then news arrives that the man responsible for the massacre has been spotted in Brussels. But is vengeance the answer? And can optimism ever be more than self-deceit?

      The Optimists
      3,7
    • The Land in Winter

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Set in December 1962 in the West Country, the story unfolds against a backdrop of changing times and societal shifts. The narrative explores the lives of its characters as they navigate personal challenges and relationships during this pivotal era. Themes of nostalgia, identity, and the impact of historical events are woven throughout, creating a rich tapestry of human experience. The setting plays a crucial role, reflecting the beauty and complexities of the region during a transformative period in British history.

      The Land in Winter
      4,0
    • One Morning Like a Bird

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Tokyo, 1940. While Japan's war against China escalates, young Yuji Takano clings to his cocooned life: his beloved evenings of French conversation at Monsieur Feneon's, visits to the bathhouse with friends, his books, his poetry. But conscription looms and the mood turns against foreigners, just when Yuji gets entangled with Feneon's daughter. As the nation heads towards conflict with the Allies, Yuji must decide where his duty - and his heart - lie.

      One Morning Like a Bird
      3,5
    • The Crossing

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      From the author of the Costa Book of the Year Pure, a hynoptic, luminous exploration of buried grief and the mysterious workings of the heart. She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known. Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This young woman who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all began. As magnetic as she is inscrutable, Maud defies expectations and evades explanation - a daughter, girlfriend and mother who, in the wake of a tragedy, embarks on a dangerous voyage across the Atlantic, not knowing where it will lead . . . By the Costa Award-winning author of Pure, this is a viscerally honest, hypnotic portrait of modern love and motherhood, the lure of the sea and the ultimate unknowability of others. This pitch-perfect novel confirms Andrew Miller's position as one of the finest writers of his generation.

      The Crossing
      3,6
    • Casanova

      • 288 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Giacomo Casanova arrives in England in the summer of 1763 at the age of thirty-eight, seeking a respite from his restless travels and liaisons. But the lure of company proves too hard to resist and the dazzlingly pretty face of young Marie Charpillon even harder. Casanova's pursuit of this elusive bewitcher drives him from exhilaration to despair and to attempt to reinvent himself in the roles of labourer, writer and country squire. Based on a little-known episode in Casanova's life, this is a scintillating, poignant, often comic portrait of a far more complex figure than legend suggests and of the decadent society in which he operated. Beautifully written, gripping and surprising, Casanova is a superb successor to INGENIOUS PAIN.

      Casanova
      3,1
    • The alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, poets and novelists-and readers- are fascinated by paths not taken. In an elegant and provocative rumination, Andrew H. Miller lingers with other selves, listening to what they have to say about our stories and our lives.

      On Not Being Someone Else
      3,5