El triunfal regreso a la novela de una de las voces más celebradas
de la literatura norteamericana con una tragicomedia inolvidable.
Finn es un profesor de mediana edad que se ve forzado a tomarse un descanso del trabajo cuando lo alertan de que su expareja, Lily, tiene graves problemas. Juntos inician un último viaje que hará que Finn se replantee cuestiones ineludibles sobre lo cómico y lo trágico de la vida, la muerte y el pasado compartido.
con su inigualable humor negro, su desbordante imaginación y un talento único para desafiar los géneros, Lorrie Moore firma una prodigiosa novela que funciona como una caja mágica que contiene tanto
una historia de amor memorable
como
un irónico cuento de fantasmas y un misterio anclado en el siglo XIX.
Un atrevido libro sobre la pérdida que nos recuerda que deberíamos atesorar los fugaces momentos de felicidad.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation”
The New York Times
—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things—seen and unseen.
A Best Book of the Year:
The New Yorker
,
NPR,
Vulture, Lit Hub
“Who else but Lorrie Moore could make, in razor-sharp irresistible prose, a ghost story about death buoyant with life?” —
People
“Is it an allegory? Is it real? It doesn’t matter...[It’s] a novel with big questions, no answers, and it’s absolutely brilliant.” —
Lit Hub
“[A] triumph of tone and, ultimately, of the imagination.” —
The Guardian
Lorrie Moore’s first novel since
A Gate at the Stairs
—
a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart.
A teacher visiting his dying brother in the Bronx. A mysterious journal from the nineteenth century stolen from a boarding house. A therapy clown and an assassin, both presumed dead, but perhaps not dead at all...
With her distinctive, irresistible wordplay and singular wry humor and wisdom, Lorrie Moore has given us a magic box of longing and surprise as she writes about love and rebirth and the pull towards life. Bold, meditative, theatrical, this new novel is an inventive, poetic portrait of lovers and siblings as it questions the stories we have been told which may or may not be true.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
takes us through a trap door, into a windswept, imagined journey to the tragic-comic landscape that is, unmistakably, the world of Lorrie Moore.