Literatura norteamericana
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“The joy luck club” by Amy Tan “Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who’s “saying” the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call
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“The marriage plot” by Jeffrey Eugenides “Eugenides describes a year or so in the lives of three college seniors at Brown in the early 80s. There is Madeleine, a self-described “incurable romantic” who is slightly embarrassed at being so normal. There is Leonard, a brilliant, temperamental student from the Pacific Northwest. And completing the triangle
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“Portable Dorothy Parker” by Dorothy Parker “This book is essential for any Parker fan, and an excellent way for new readers to make her acquaintance. It reprints her finest short stories and poems, some later articles, and all of her excellent “Constant Reader” book reviews from the Depression-era glory days of the New Yorker. The
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“Sorry please thank you” by Charles Yu “The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.” Extraido de Amazon. Ver además: http://nyti.ms/16RRlXe http://dawn.com/news/1024634/review-sorry-please-thank-you-by-charles-yu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Yu Los títulos recomendados están en la Biblioteca del Instituto Internacional. Si
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“The hundred secret senses” by Amy Tan “Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who
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“Sleepless nights” by Elisabeth Hardwick “In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick’s finest fiction but
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“The long goodbye” by Raymond Chandler “Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he’s divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and
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“The bonfire of the vanities” by Tom Wolfe “In his spellbinding first novel, Wolfe proves that he has the right stuff to write propulsively engrossing fiction. Both his cynical irony and sense of the ridiculous are perfectly suited to his subject: the roiling, corrupt, savage, ethnic melting pot that is New York City. Ranging from
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“State of wonder “ by Ann Patchett “Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative andassured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest. Infusing the narrative with the same ingenuity and emotionalurgency that pervaded her acclaimed previous novels Bel Canto, Taft, Run, The Magician’s Assistant,
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“20 under 40 : stories from The New Yorker” edited by Deborah Treisman “In June 2010, the editors of The New Yorker announced to widespread media coverage their selection of “20 Under 40”—the young fiction writers who are, or will be, central to their generation. The magazine published twenty stories by this stellar group of