by Jennifer Egan (Author)
Uno de los 10 mejores libros del a seg佖 The New York Times. La culminaci de un gran proyecto narrativo iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer)
La casa de caramelo, que culmina el ambicioso proyecto narrativo de Jennifer Egan iniciado con El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer en 2011), cuenta la historia de Bix Bouton, un brillante empresario inform疸ico en horas bajas que acaba patentando una exitosa herramienta tecnolica que permite acceder a nuestros recuerdos y compartirlos, y que ha seducido a miles de personas. Con una asombrosa variedad de recursos narrativos, Egan pone el foco en el mundo digital y de las redes sociales y nos cuenta la historia de diversos personajes que buscan una conexi real en un mundo cada vez m疽 digitalizado e hiperconectado.
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From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an "inventive, effervescent" (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your Unconscious"--which allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others--has seduced multitudes. In the world of Egan's spectacular imagination, there are "counters" who track and exploit desires and there are "eluders," those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles--from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love. "A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history" (San Francisco Chronicle), "this is minimalist maximalism. It's as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive" (The New York Times).
Author Biography
Jennifer Egan (Chicago, 1962) es una de las escritoras m疽 reconocidas de la literatura estadounidense actual. Ha publicado una recopilaci de cuentos y seis novelas, entre las que destacan Manhattan Beach, la multi galardonada; El tiempo es un canalla (Premio Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle Award y Los Angeles Times Book Prize) y La casa de caramelo (uno de los diez mejores libros de 2022 seg佖 The New York Times), las tres en Salamandra. Sus relatos y piezas period﨎ticas han aparecido en medios tan prestigiosos como The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's y The New York Times Magazine.