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El Libro de Los Peces de William Gould / Gould's Book of Fish

El Libro de Los Peces de William Gould / Gould's Book of Fish

by Richard Flanagan
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/07/2017

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Un extraordinario tapiz de la Australia del siglo XIX.
El libro de los peces de William Gould es el retrato de un mundo de convictos, profugos, flageladores, colonizadores, ladrones y victimas cuya sangrienta historia se describe en esta novela siguiendo una original taxonomia de doce peces.
En aquellos dias William Buelow Gould, protagonista de esta historia, es sentenciado a cadena perpetua en la famosa colonia penitenciaria de la isla de Sara, en la Tierra de Van Diemen (hoy Tasmania).
Mientras cumple condena a la espera de su ejecucion, Gould escribe un libro sobre los peces que pinta para el medico de la colonia, aficionado a la historia natural. En esas pinturas, ademas de realizar bellas ilustraciones cientificas, Gould introduce trazos inequivocamente humanos. Asi, El libro de los peces de William Gould se convierte en la cronica de la vida en prision, de sus reos y carceleros, y de la cruel naturaleza del hombre, de como el ser humano puede liderar su propia revolucion mediante el amor.
Resenas:
"Un escritor excelente.", BR>Ian McEwan
"Richard Flanagan roza la grandeza literaria."
Chicago Tribune
"En estas paginas, Flanagan utiliza su talento para regalar al lector no solo la comprension visceral de las crueldades y las corrupciones de la raza humana, sino tambien el reconocimiento de sus glorias y su perseverancia, su habilidad para convertir el sufrimiento en arte."
The New York Times
"Flanagan vuelve al agua para sumergirnos en la historia colonial y penal de Tasmania. Flotando junto a el [...] se encuentran las voces de, entre otros, Garcia Marquez, Borges, Sterne y Melville."
The Independent
"Hay mucho que saborear en este relato picaresco de monstruosidades, mucha imaginacion desbocada, mucha ironia astuta y mucha anarquia comica."
The Guardian
"Esta extraordinaria novela es una meditacion sobre el colonialismo, o, mas bien, sobre la historia en si misma. [...] Una vision serena y escalofriante de la vida humana, comparable a la de los peces, nadando en la enorme frialdad, solos."
The New Yorker ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish.

He fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison, only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled.

Acclaimed as a masterpiece around the world, Gould's Book of Fish is at once a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia and a contemporary fable, a tale of horror, and a celebration of love, all transformed by a convict painter into pictures of fish
ISBN:
9788439732556
9788439732556
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-07-2017
Language:
Spanish
Publisher:
Literatura Random House
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
229x135x33mm
Weight:
0.54kg
Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three brothers is Australian Rules football journalist Martin Flanagan. He grew up in the remote mining town of Rosebery on Tasmania’s western coast.

His novels, Death Of A River Guide, The Sound Of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book Of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, Wanting and The Narrow Road to the Deep North have received numerous honours and are published in twenty-six countries.

He directed a feature film version of The Sound Of One Hand Clapping. A collection of his essays is published as And What Do You Do, Mr Gable?

His latest book The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

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