Wonderful World: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Calvo, Javier

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0061557684 ISBN 13 : 9780061557682

Editeur : Harper, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Calvo Javier

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

A bravura performance by a groundbreaking new writer—a novel set in contemporary Barcelona and made up of multiple storylines, including a fictional manuscript by Stephen King

Wonderful World is the story of a son trying to make his father proud—by becoming an international criminal.

Lucas Giraut inherits the family company from a father who never really cared enough to get to know him. This inheritance comes with a lot of unanswered questions and one archenemy: Lucas's mother, Fanny, an ambitious and ruthless entrepreneur who believes Lucas is as useless as his father, Lorenzo, an enigmatic man whose recent death—under mysterious circumstances—delights her.

Valentina Parini is a precocious and troubled seventh-grader, and the self-proclaimed Top European Expert on the Work of Stephen King. Lucas Giraut is her upstairs neighbor and her only friend. He indulges Valentina as she reveals her dark fantasies of retribution on her classmates and teachers. As Valentina struggles with growing up, Lucas endeavors to understand what he's been bequeathed by his father. Following clues found in a windowless secret apartment and in his dreams, he ends up deep in Barcelona's underworld, far from the comforts of his home, a former ducal palace in the Gothic Quarter.

In Wonderful World, Javier Calvo brings together a huge cast of unforgettable characters in a haunting, masterful tale filled with scandalous behavior and dangerous crimes. A dazzling novel in which reality and fantasy entwine, it hails the arrival of a powerful and original voice.

Revue de presse :

“A frenetic and magnificent mashup of family drama, mob revenge story, and surreal mystery. . . . A fast-moving narrative overflowing with hilarious situations.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“Javier Calvo’s Wonderful World is a unique, visionary novel: verbally magical, funny, and full of old-fashioned sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. This is the work of a marvelous literary talent.” (Clive Barker)

“Surreal, sexy, wildly funny, self-indulgent, and wretchedly excessive . . . has all the earmarks of a cult favorite in the making.” (Booklist (starred review))

“Javier Calvo claims to have channeled the ghost of Charles Dickens to write this postmodern thriller, and the young Spanish author tells his tale with enough brio― the cartoonish cast includes Pink Floyd-obsessed gansters and plastic-surgery-maimed matriarchs―that you’ll excuse the presumption.” (Details)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061557684
• ISBN 13: 9780061557682
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 480