Lauren Groff ha creado una novela magistral que sorprende desde la primera pagina y que ha triunfado en el mundo anglosajon por su madurez y su talento narrativo. La novela del momento.

La certeza absoluta no existe en ningun lugar. A los dioses les encanta jodernos.

Lauren Groff
Un hombre y una mujer caminan muy juntos por la playa. Hace frio, pero no importa. De repente se esconden detras de unas dunas para celebrar su primer acto de amor carnal. El es Lotto, ella es Mathilde, los dos tienen veintidos anos y acaban de casarse, aunque solo llevan unos quince dias juntos y saben muy poco el uno del otro. El hilo de sangre que mancha los muslos de Mathilde sella esta entrega que parece absoluta y exclusiva, y asi sera durante mas de veinte anos. Lotto y Mathilde se convierten en la pareja casi perfecta; basta una mirada para que se entiendan, un gesto complice para que los dos dejen una sala abarrotada de gente y aprovechen cualquier rincon para amarse. Lotto se dedica a escribir obras de teatro al hilo de su pasion por Shakespeare y Mathilde se convierte en la esposa ideal, que es musa, empresaria y ama de casa. Bien…

Bien, hasta que de repente el destino se impone. Es entonces cuando descubrimos que el matrimonio, bien mirado, es una larga conversacion, y que en esta charla caben huecos, omisiones, palabras sueltas que pueden ser mentiras piadosas o alfileres.

Y es que toda historia tiene siempre al menos dos formas de ser contada.

Bestseller de The New York Times Finalista del National Book Award Mejor novela del ano en Amazon Mejor novela del ano segun Obama

Resenas:

Resulta imposible no quedar fascinado por la posibilidad de ver lo que hay detras de las puertas cerradas. Un drama visceral al que no podras resistirte.
Marie Claire

Una novela descarada y ambiciosa con inconfundibles destellos de brillantez.
The New York Times

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AMAZON’S 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE

Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers - with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout. –The New York Times Book Review (cover review)

Elaborate, sensual…a writer whose books are too exotic and unusual to be missed. –The New York Times

Fates and Furies is a clear-the-ground triumph. –Ron Charles, The Washington Post

From the award-winning, New York Times- bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, one of the most anticipated books of the fall: an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception.

Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.

At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.