Libros de John Banville

Els Infinits

• 248 páginas
• Durant una jornada, la família Godley es reuneix al voltant del que anomenen «la Sala del Cel», on el pare, un matemàtic que s’ha guanyat la vida estudiant l’infinit, jeu en coma a un pas de la mort. Dos convidats m&eac...

El Mar

• 224 páginas
• Després de la mort de la seva esposa, Max Morden es retira a la costa irlandesa, al mateix poble on estiuejava durant la infantesa. Fuig així d’un present dolorós per a refugiar-se en un passat, també tràgic, que...

Venetian Vespers

• A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winner Everything was a..

Christine Falls

• One of Stephen King's Best Books of the 21st Century. "It was not the dead that..

The Silver Swan

• In the second book of John Banville's masterful Quirke series, a faked suicide ensnares the..

Birchwood

• A classic novel of family, isolation and a blighted Ireland from the Booker Prize-winning..

Venetian Vespers

The Drowned

• "John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive, and I pick up his books whenever I need a..

The Drowned

• 352 páginas
• 1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn't approach, but unable to hold back, he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person's case, as a husband claims his wife may have...

Marlowe

• Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe returns in award-winning author John Banville's..

F23 April In Spain

• 355 páginas
• On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafes and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it's hard...

Snow

• 368 páginas
• Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate a murder at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family.

Mrs Osmond

• 384 páginas
• John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fifteen previous novels including The Sea , which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN

The Book Of Evidence & The Sea

• 360 páginas
• The Book of Evidence , shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1989 and The Sea, which won the Booker prize in 2005, take us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed- up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain...

The Blue Guitar

• Oliver Orme used to be a painter well known and well rewarded but the muse has deserted him. He is also as he confesses a petty thief; he does not steal for gain but for the thrill of it. HIs worst theft is Polly the wife of his friend Marcus with whom...

Long Lankin

• 112 páginas
• A collection of short stories from the early years of the Man Booker Prize-winning author's career that explores the passionate emotions—fear, jealousy, desire—that course beneath the surface of everyday...

The Crooked Timber Of Humanity: Chapters In The History Of Ideas (second Edition)

• "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel..

Ancient Light

• In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old woman - in the back of her car on sunny mornings and in a rundown cottage in the country on rain-soaked afternoons. Unsure why she has chosen him he...

Shroud

• One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton's Lucifer, Axel Vander, the..

The Book Of Evidence

• John Banville' s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel,..