Description
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: John Boyne
Publisher: Salamandra
Published: 07/20/2021
Pages: 688
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9788418107795
ISBN10: 8418107790
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Sagas
About the Author
John Boyne nació en 1971 en DublÃn, 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 MotÃn en la Bounty, La casa del propósito especial, La apuesta, El ladrón de tiempo, En el corazón del bosque, El pacifista y El secreto de Gaudlin Hall.