Las furias invisibles / The Heart’s Invisible Furies

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Pub. Date: 2021-07-20
Publisher(s): Salamandra
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Summary

Un relato sincero y profundo sobre la Irlanda de posguerra y la lucha desesperada de un hombre por encontrar su lugar en el mundo, del autor de El niño con el pijama de rayas.

Hijo bastardo de una adolescente expulsada de su comunidad rural y adoptado por una excéntrica pareja de acomodados dublineses, Cyril es un niño educado que crece acostumbrado a enmascarar sus emociones. Extraordinariamente atento a todo lo que ocurre a su alrededor, pero tímido y retraído cuando está acompañado, pronto sabrá que es gay y tardará décadas en desprenderse de una culpa y una vergüenza paralizantes. En un entorno que juzga abominable su orientación sexual, dos relaciones serán cruciales en su maduración: Maurice Woodbead, un amigo de la infancia que posee la audacia y la belleza que Cyril siempre ha deseado, y Bastian, un médico holandés tocado por la gracia a quien conoce cuando se muda a Ámsterdam y con quien convivirá durante años.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017
Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017
Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he?

Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more.

In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.

Author Biography

John Boyne nació en 1971 en Dublín, Irlanda. Se formó en el Trinity College y en la Universidad de East Anglia, en Norwich. Entre las novelas que ha publicado destaca El niño con el pijama de rayas, que se ha traducido a más de cuarenta idiomas y de la que se han vendido más de cinco millones de ejemplares. Ganadora de dos Irish Book Awards y finalista del British Book Award, fue llevada al cine en 2008. En España fue galardonada con el Premio de los Lectores 2007 de la revista Qué Leer y permaneció más de un año en las listas de libros más vendidos. John Boyne es asimismo el aclamado autor de Motín en la BountyLa casa del propósito especialLa apuestaEl ladrón de tiempoEn el corazón del bosqueEl pacifista y El secreto de Gaudlin Hall.

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