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Un thriller espeluznante, hipnótico y divertido. Una primera novela poderosa, que cautiva y perturba al lector. La voz de Ottessa Moshfegh irrumpe con fuerza en las letras norteamericanas. Recuerda este nombre: Eileen.

La Navidad ofrece muy poco a Eileen Dunlop, una chica modesta y perturbada atrapada entre su papel de cuidadora de un padre alcohólico y su empleo administrativo en Moorehead, un correccional de menores cargado de horrores cotidianos. Eileen templa sus tristes días con fantasías perversas y sueña con huir a una gran ciudad. Mientras tanto, llena sus noches con pequeños hurtos en la tienda local, espiando a Randy, un ingenuo y musculoso guardia del reformatorio, y limpiando los desastres que su padre deja en casa.

Cuando la brillante, guapa y alegre Rebecca Saint John hace su aparición como nueva directora educativa de Moorehead, Eileen es incapaz de resistirse a esa milagrosa e incipiente amistad. Pero en un giro digno de Hitchcock, el cariño de Eileen por Rebecca la convierte en cómplice de un crimen. Mi nombre era Eileen ha sido ganador del prestigioso Premio PEN/Hemingway al mejor debut literario, nominado al Man Booker Prize 2016 y uno de los mejores libros del año.

Críticas:
«Si Jim Thompson se casara con Patricia Highsmith (imaginen el hogar) podrían haber conspirado juntos para imaginar algo como Eileen. Es más negra que el negro y fría como un témpano. Una narración brillante y terriblemente divertida.»
John Banville

«Una de las nuevas voces más virtuosas de los últimos años. Su prosa es asombrosa, ingeniosa y electrizante.»
Bustle

«Eileen es una obra extraordinaria, siempre oscura y sorprendente, por momentos desagradable y en ocasiones hilarante. Confíen en mí nunca han leído algo remotamente parecido.»
Patrick Anderson, Washington Post

«Su protagonista es todo menos común: es vivaz y humana. Una novela cautivadora. Moshfegh escribe frases hermosas. Una tras otra se despliegan, juguetonas, escandalosas, inteligentes, morbosas, ingeniosas y mordaces.»
Lily King, New York Times Book Review

«Moshfegh trabaja como una maga que insta a la expectativa.»
Kevin Rabalais, The Sydney Morning Herald

«Eileen enciende la relación simbiótica entre el amor y el odio, la esperanza y el engaño, y, para el lector, entre la repulsión y el enganche absoluto.»
Boris Kachka, New York Magazine

«Una descendiente de Nathaniel Hawthorne y Raymond Carver, Moshfegh transforma el veneno en algo embriagador.»
Rivka Galchen

«Una novela de debut con un propósito macabro. Hay un radicalismo punk en su representación de una joven mujer tímida y, al mismo tiempo, grotesca y perversa.»
The New Yorker

«Una joven escritora que ya posee una visión muy perspicaz de los callejones más oscuros de la psique humana.»
Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour.
So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes--a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.
Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen's story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.
About the Author: Ottessa Moshfegh es una escritora y novelista norteamericana. Nació en Boston de madre croata y padre iraní. Es colaboradora de la revista The Paris Review desde 2012, donde ha publicado los relatos cortos por los que ha sido galardonada con el Plimpton Prize en 2014. Su relato «McGlue» fue publicado el mismo año y le valió el Fence Modern Prize in Prose y el Believer Book Award. Mi nombre era Eileen es su primera novela, que fue inmediatamente aclamada por la crítica literaria tras su aparición en 2015, ganó el Premio PEN/Hemingway al mejor debut literario en 2016 y estuvo nominada al Man Booker Prize 2016. Ha sido elegida como una de las mejores novelistas jóvenes de Estados Unidos.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788420423944
  • Publisher: Alfaguara
  • Publisher Imprint: Alfaguara
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Series Title: Spanish
  • Weight: 430 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8420423947
  • Publisher Date: 25 Apr 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 145 mm


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