‘Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I’ve ever read’ MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful…a wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD'A triumph – a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATTEleven-year-old Ludo is in search of a father. Raised singlehandedly by his mother Sibylla, Ludo’s been reading Greek, Arabic, Japanese and a little Hebrew since the age of four; but reading Homer in th...

Un inventario de las mejores ficciones recientes de Helen DeWitt, la revolucionaria autora de El último samurái.«Helen DeWitt debería haber ocupado el podio dela next generation , junto a David Foster Wallace y George Saunders.»Laura Fernández, El PaísCriada en Marrakech por una madre francesa y ...

All I want is to be a success. That's all I ask.' Failing salesman Joe has a dream - or rather an outrageous fantasy. Because holed up in his trailer Joe comes up with a jaw-dropping plan that will stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace and make his fortune. Win-win? As he turns his life around, Lightning Rods takes us to the very top of corporate America.

Una de las novelas más memorables de los últimos años, destinada a convertirse en un clásico de culto.Ludo es un niño prodigio: a los seis años aprendió griego para poder leer La odisea y francés para entender Tintín. Su madre, Sibylla, también es una joven devastadoramente inteligente que vio cómo su vida daba un vuelco al quedarse embarazada en un descuido. Atrapada en un trabajo con el que apenas si llega a final de mes, educa sola a su hijo ...

„Az évszázad legjobb könyve." Christian Lorentzen, New York Magazine A tizenegy éves Ludo apát keres. Édesanyja, az őt szerény körülmények között egyedül nevelő Sibylla négyéves kora óta tanítja olvasni görögül, arabul, japánul, héberül. Hűvösebb időben ők ketten a londoni metró Circle Line vonalán utazgatnak, hogy ne kelljen otthon fűteni; és hogy elüsse az időt, a fiú Homéroszt olvas eredetiben. Az utasok a csodájára járnak – Talán zseni? Igazi csodagyerek? Vagy a gyermekbántalmazás egy ...

A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America’s “War on Terror,” countless years of li...

Hailed a “Best Book of the Year” by NPR, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, and the New York Public LibraryFinalist for the 2019 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionFor sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world’s piranha tank, gam...

All I want is to be a success. That's all I ask.' Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then he fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat hundreds of pieces of homemade pie, served up by his would-be customers who feel so sorry for him. Holed up in his trailer, Joe finds an outlet his for frustrations in a series of ingenious sexual fantasies, and at last strikes gold. His brain storm, Lightning Rods, Inc., will take Joe to the very top - and to ...

Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise?Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-r...