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El proyecto esposa/ The Rosie Project

El proyecto esposa/ The Rosie Project

The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/11/2013

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Hilarante, sorprendente, ingeniosa.

"Me llamo Don Tillman, tengo treinta y nueve anos y soy profesor adjunto de Genetica en la Universidad de Melbourne. Mi trabajo esta bien remunerado, me alimento de forma equilibrada y regular, y mi condicion fisica es optima. En el reino animal, no tendria ninguna dificultad para aparearme, pero en el humano, nunca he logrado tener una segunda cita con la misma mujer. Los motivos de mi fracaso no termino de entenderlos, y como las estadisticas muestran que los hombres casados son, en promedio, mas felices y viven mas tiempo, he decidido poner en marcha un programa vital para mi, el Proyecto Esposa. A tal fin, he creado un algoritmo perfecto que me permitira excluir las candidatas inadecuadas: las fumadoras, las impuntuales, las desorganizadas, las que dedican demasiado tiempo a su aspecto exterior... en suma, todas aquellas que no respondan a los estrictos criterios que se exponen en el cuestionario de dieciseis paginas que he elaborado. Este libro es el informe cientifico -aunque me han explicado que hay que denominarlo novela- acerca del resultado de mi proyecto. Quien lo lea descubrira que la candidata menos apropiada se llama Rosie; y tambien encontrara la respuesta a una pregunta fundamental: ?puede el amor cambiar la vida de una persona, incluso de un individuo como yo?"

El Proyecto Esposa tiene un protagonista excepcional: el inteligente, obsesivo y literal Don Tillman, para quien navegar por este mundo de emociones complejas e incoherentes, poblado por seres que a menudo dicen exactamente lo contrario de lo que piensan, constituye una tarea tan ardua como desconcertante.

La critica ha dicho...

"Uno de los mas atractivos, simpaticos y fascinantes personajes literarios que he encontrado en mucho tiempo." - The Times

"Un libro divertido, maravilloso [...], puro entretenimiento." -The Independent

"Una novela hilarante, llena de chispa." -Kirkus Reviews

"Un heroe comico digno de recordar [...]. Una novela de lectura compulsiva [...], los desvelos del profesor constituyen tambien una emocionante historia de alcance universal sobre como conciliar la logica con las emociones, la razon con la pasion, y como lograr conectar nuestra vida con la de los demas." -The Guardian

"Adorable, realmente divertida y calida. Una joya de libro." -Marian Keyes

DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH

The international bestselling romantic comedy "bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and...humor," (Entertainment Weekly) featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love.

The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who's decided it's time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.

Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her as a candidate for The Wife Project (even if she is "quite intelligent for a barmaid"). But Don is intrigued by Rosie's own quest to identify her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on The Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don't find love, it finds you.

Arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, Graeme Simsion's distinctive debut "navigates the choppy waters of adult relationships, both romantic and platonic, with a fresh take (USA TODAY). "Filled with humor and plenty of heart, The Rosie Project is a delightful reminder that all of us, no matter how we're wired, just want to fit in" (Chicago Tribune).
ISBN:
9788498385540
9788498385540
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-11-2013
Language:
Spanish
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country of origin:
Spain
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
221x135x23mm
Weight:
0.4kg
Graeme Simsion

Graeme Simsion was born in Auckland and is a Melbourne-based writer of novels, short stories, plays, screenplays and two non-fiction books. The Rosie Project began life as a screenplay, winning the Australian Writers Guild/Inscription Award for Best Romantic Comedy before being adapted into a novel.

It went on to win the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript and has since been sold around the world to over forty countries. Sony Pictures have optioned the film rights with Graeme contracted to write the script.

The Rosie Project won the 2014 ABIA for Best General Fiction Book, and was ultimately awarded Australian Book of the Year for 2014. The sequel, The Rosie Effect, was released in 2014 to great acclaim and also became a bestseller. His new book is The Best of Adam Sharp.

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