Lost Empress Lost Empress

Lost Empress

    • 3,99 €
    • 3,99 €

Descripción editorial

"Ambitious, affecting, intelligent, plangent, comic, kooky and impassioned. I've read a lot of novels this year, between judging the Man Booker prize and the Granta Best of Young British Novelists, and I've yearned for this kind of exuberant, precise fiction" Stuart Kelly, Guardian on A Naked Singularity

It would take something huge to put Paterson, New Jersey on the map.

But Nina Gill is determined to do just that. She is the daughter of the ageing owner of the Dallas Cowboys and the well-kept secret to their success. Shocked when her brother inherits the team, leaving her with the Paterson Pork, New Jersey's only Indoor Football League franchise, she vows to take on the N.F.L. and make her new team the pigskin kings of America.

Meanwhile, Nuno DeAngeles - a brilliant criminal mastermind - contrives to be thrown into Rikers Island prison to commit one of the most audacious crimes of all time. Now he's on the inside, he has two good reasons to get out. But how does a person of culture go about breaking out of the penal system when the whole of the land of the free is addicted to keeping him in it?

Without knowing it, or ever having met, Nina and Nuno have already had a profound effect on each other's lives. As his bid for freedom and her bid for sporting immortality reach crisis point, their stories converge in the countdown to an epic conclusion.

Thrilling, touching, insightful and shockingly hilarious, De La Pava's extraordinary novel gets under the skin and into the minds of a vast cast of characters from the fringes of society - immigrants, exiles and outsiders.

GÉNERO
Ficción y literatura
PUBLICADO
2018
8 de mayo
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
640
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Quercus
TAMAÑO
16,2
MB

Más libros de Sergio De La Pava

Puñalada trapera II Puñalada trapera II
2022
Lost Empress Lost Empress
2018
A Naked Singularity A Naked Singularity
2013
Every Arc Bends Its Radian Every Arc Bends Its Radian
2024
Personae Personae
2013
A Naked Singularity A Naked Singularity
2012