Darin Strauss es un autor aclamado internacionalmente cuyas obras profundizan en las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y las vidas interiores de sus personajes. Su prosa se caracteriza por una penetrante perspicacia psicológica y una habilidad magistral para capturar matices emocionales sutiles. Strauss explora temas como la identidad, la memoria y la búsqueda de significado en un mundo ambiguo. Su escritura es celebrada por su profundidad y sofisticación literaria.
Josh and Dori Goldin seem like the perfect couple with their baby boy. However, their seemingly ideal life takes a dark turn when their eight-month-old son shows alarming signs, including losing consciousness and coughing up blood, leading to a critical moment when his heart stops.
"Chang and Eng Bunker were the Siamese twins for whom the term was coined, one of the nineteenth century's most fabled human oddities. Now Darin Strauss has rescued the twins from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary conjoined lives a first novel of exceptional beauty."--Jacket