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Galardonada con el Premio Goncourt, ensalzada por los críticos y convertida en un auténtico fenómeno editorial en Francia, esta novela es un fresco y atrevido retrato de una sociedad descompuesta por uno de los más crueles inventos del hombre: la guerra.

Un emocionante canto a la capacidad de superación del ser humano.

En noviembre de 1918, tan solo unos días antes del armisticio, el teniente d'Aulnay-Pradelle ordena una absurda ofensiva que culminará con los soldados Albert Maillard y Édouard Péricourt gravemente heridos, en un confuso y dramático incidente que ligará sus destinos inexorablemente.

Édouard, de familia adinerada y con un talento excepcional para el dibujo, ha sufrido una horrible mutilación y se niega a reencontrarse con su padre y su hermana. Albert, de origen humilde y carácter pusilánime, concilia el sueño abrazado a una cabeza de caballo de cartón y está dispuesto a lo indecible con tal de compensar a Édouard, a quien debe la vida. Y Pradelle, aristócrata venido a menos, cínico y mujeriego, está obsesionado con recuperar su estatus social.

De regreso en París, los tres excombatientes se rebelarán contra una realidad que los condena a la miseria y al olvido. Así, Édouard pergeña una ingeniosísima estafa con el fin de vengarse de su progenitor, que siempre lo repudió por su sensibilidad y sus habilidades artísticas. De paso quiere ayudar al fiel Albert, cuyo prurito es huir a las antípodas para olvidar a Cécile, su amor perdido. Aunque tal vez el más ambicioso sea Pradelle, que sacudirá la conciencia de Francia entera mediante una monumental operación delictiva concebida para amasar una rápida fortuna. Los escollos son considerables, pero la voluntad de los tres parece infinita.

En una brillante fusión de literatura popular y alta literatura, Pierre Lemaitre ha creado una trepidante historia que progresa al ritmo de una trama detectivesca. Integrando con maestría elementos de géneros tan diversos como el relato de aventuras, el drama psicológico, la crónica social y política y el alegato antibélico, la narración es un derroche de humor, rabia y compasión.

Reseñas:

«Hay una obra maestra en esta temporada literaria. Está firmada por un escritor apenas conocido cuyo nombre irá de boca en boca [...]. Es el libro que hay que leer este año.» -Lire

«Una de las novelas más apasionantes de este año.» -Pierre Assouline, La République des livres

«Un Premio Goncourt popular en el mejor sentido de la palabra.» -Bernard Pivot

«Este libro, sin ninguna duda, marcará la historia de la literatura. Podría haber tenido mil páginas más y seguiríamos adorándolo. Es magnífico.» -Valérie Trierweiler, Paris-Match

«Manteniendo el suspense hasta la última página, el autor compone con maestría un fresco de la Francia de la posguerra.» -Le Monde

DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH

Now a major French film Au revoir là-haut - Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irène and Camille.

October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more.

And so is set in motion a series of devastating events that will inextricably bind together the fates and fortunes of Pradelle and the two soldiers who witness his crime: Albert Maillard and Édouard Péricourt.

Back in civilian life, Albert and Édouard struggle to adjust to a society whose reverence for its dead cannot quite match its resentment for those who survived. But the two soldiers conspire to enact an audacious form of revenge against the country that abandoned them to penury and despair, with a scheme to swindle the whole of France on an epic scale.

Meanwhile, believing her brother killed in action, Édouard's sister Madeleine has married Pradelle, who is running a little scam of his own...
About the Author: Pierre Lemaitre, escritor y guionista nacido en París en 1951, estudió Psicología, creó una empresa de formación pedagógica y ha impartido clases de literatura. Autor tardío, en 2006, a los cincuenta y cinco años, ganó el premio a la primera novela en el festival de Cognac con Irène, un libro en el que presentó a Camille Verhoeven, protagonista de una serie policíaca que incluiría también Alex (2011), Rosy & John (2011) y Camille (2012). A esa primera obra y ese primer galardón se sumaron otros hasta llegar al Premio Goncourt 2013, el Premio Roman France Télévisions, el Premio de los Libreros de Nancy-Le Point, el premio a la mejor novela francesa de 2013 de la revista Lire y el premio a la mejor novela del año según los libreros franceses en la revista Livres Hebdo por Nos vemos allá arriba (Salamandra, 2014), a la que siguió Tres días y una vida (Salamandra, 2016).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788498389036
  • Publisher: Salamandra
  • Publisher Imprint: Salamandra
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Series Title: Los Hijos del Desastre
  • Weight: 430 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8498389038
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 130 mm


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