El Pasajero - Stella Maris / The Passenger - Stella Maris Tapa blanda - 2023

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Entre los 100 libros ms notables del 2022, de acuerdo con The New York Times. El Premio Pulitzer y autor bestseller, Cormac McCarthy regresa despus de 16 aos. El autor de La carretera cuenta en dos volmenes la historia de un hermano y una hermana, golpeados por prdidas y conspiraciones.

Dos novelas extraordinarias. Una obra maestra. El pasajero
1980, Mississippi. Son las tres de la madrugada cuando Bobby Western se sumerge en el mar del golfo de Mxico con su traje de neopreno e ilumina el avin hundido con la linterna de buceo: nueve cuerpos con el cinturn de seguridad an abrochado. Faltan la caja negra y el dcimo pasajero. Pero cmo es posible? Testigo colateral de maquinaciones que solo pueden perjudicarle, Bobby se ve ensombrecido en cuerpo y espritu por hombres con placa, por el fantasma de su padre (uno de los inventores de la bomba de Hiroshima) y por su hermana, el amor y la ruina de su alma. El pasajero es una sobrecogedora novela sobre la moralidad y la ciencia, el legado del pecado y la locura que se aloja en la conciencia humana. Stella Maris
1972, Wisconsin. Alicia Western, de veinte aos, ingresa en un hospital psiquitrico llevando cuarenta mil dlares en una bolsa de plstico. Doctoranda en Matemticas, a Alicia le han diagnosticado esquizofrenia paranoide y no quiere hablar de su hermano Bobby. Prefiere contemplar la naturaleza de la locura, estudiar la interseccin entre la fsica y la filosofa, y plantar cohortes, quimeras y alucinaciones. Narrada a travs de las transcripciones de las sesiones psiquitricas, Stella Maris es un inquisitivo e intelectualmente desafiante complemento a El pasajero, as como una investigacin filosfica que cuestiona nuestras nociones de Dios, la verdad y la existencia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Among the 100 Notable Books of 2022 according to The New York Times. The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with a two-volume masterpiece. The Passenger is a fast-paced and sprawling novel while Stella Maris is a tightly controlled coda, told entirely in dialogue. Together they relate the thrilling story of a brother and sister, haunted by loss, pursued by conspiracy, and longing for a death they cannot reconcile with God. The Passenger
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western, a salvage diver, zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit--by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Stella Maris
1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western is twenty years old when she arrives at a psychiatric facility with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers

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