Libros de Ann Patchett

Tom Lake

• 376 páginas
• En la primavera de 2020, las tres hijas de Lara vuelven a la granja familiar, situada en el norte de Michigan. Mientras recogen cerezas, le piden a su madre que les cuente la historia de Peter Duke, un famoso actor con el que, años atrás,...

Estos Días Preciosos (adn)

• 344 páginas
• Como escritora, Ann Patchett sabe cuál será el desenlace de su ficción. La vida, sin embargo, a menudo da giros inesperados. Patchett reflexiona sobre ello en esta colección de ensayos, que ofrece una mirada fresca e ínt...

La Casa Holandesa (adn)

• 392 páginas
• A finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a Cyril Conroy lo visita la suerte: hace una única pero muy inteligente inversión que le permite poner en marcha lo que se convertirá en un gigantesco imperio inmobiliario. El negocio catapulta...

Comunidad (adn)

• 352 páginas
• Un domingo por la tarde en el sur de California, Bert Cousins aparece sin invitación previa en la fiesta del bautizo de Franny Keating. Antes de terminar el día, ha besado ya a la madre de Franny, Beverly, y ha puesto en marcha la disoluci&o...

Tom Lake

• 352 páginas
• A la primavera del 2020, les tres filles de la Lara Tenison tornen a la granja de la família al nord de Michigan per l?època de la collita de cireres. En aquest hort txekhovià, demanen a la seva mare que els expliqui la històri...

El Corazón De La Jungla

• 412 páginas
• La doctora Marina Singh, una científica que trabaja para una farmacéutica estadounidense, es enviada a Brasil para buscar a su antigua mentora, la doctora Annick Swenson, que ha desaparecido en la Amazonia mientras trabajaba en la creaci&oac...

The Dutch House

Tom Lake

• 320 páginas
• It's spring and Lara's three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they've always longed to hear - of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a...

The Dutch House

• 337 páginas
• Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been taken from us by the person who still lived...

The Dutch House

• 337 páginas

Bel Canto

• 376 páginas
• Der Champagner fließt, die Stimme einer Weltklasse-Sopranistin erfüllt den Palazzo - die politische Elite feiert ein großes Fest. Plötzlich fallen Schüsse. Terroristen stürmen den Raum und nehmen die ganze Gesellschaft als...

Die Taufe

• 400 páginas

Tom Lake

• 309 páginas
• In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance...

These Precious Days: Essays

• The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family,..

Fight Of The Century: Writers Reflect On 100 Years Of Landmark Aclu Cases

• 336 páginas
• The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest...

Bel Canto

• 318 páginas
• Winner of the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of State of Wonder and Commonwealth. Latin terrorists storm an international gathering hosted by an underprivileged country...

Truth And Beauty

• 272 páginas
• Author and Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett's first work of non-fiction is an account of her long friendship with the recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.

Magician's Assistant

• 368 páginas
• The Magician's Assistant sustains author Ann Patchett's proven penchant for crafting colorful characters and marrying the ordinary with the fantastic. When Parsifal, Sabine's husband of more than 20 years and the magician of the title, suddenly...

In Light Of India

• 209 páginas
• For six years Octavio Paz served as Mexico's ambassador to India--an experience that forever changed his life. Now, in Paz's most personal work of prose to date, the Nobel Prize Laureate brings his poetic insight and voluminous knowledge to bear...