Personnes publiques, vies privées

Soon to be a Netflix film directed by Charlie Kaufman. Jake and his girlfriend are on a drive to visit his parents at their remote farm. After dinner at the family home, things begin to get worryingly strange. And when he leaves her stranded in a snowstorm at an abandoned high school later that night, what follows is a chilling exploration of psychological frailty and the limitations of reality. Iain Reid’s intense, suspenseful debut novel will have readers’ nerves jangling. A series of tiny clues sprinkled through the relentlessly paced narrative culminate in a haunting twist on the...

« La comparsa non è una sinfonia, ma un delicato concerto in tre movimenti. Il primo, allegro grazioso , è una vitale e sottile presentazione della protagonista, Noga. Il secondo, il confronto con la madre e l'ex marito, un tormentato andante . La conclusione è vivace ma anche dolce e sognante». Dan Miron, Columbia University

Narrada con un estilo suntuoso, fluido y cinematográfico, la trama, que comienza en Buenos Aires y culmina en Finisterre con un final tan sorprendente como inesperado, nos lleva a la reflexión, a revisar algunos espacios de nuestra propia memoria. En un mar de palabras suaves y emociones fuertes, en esa ambigüedad con que se construye cualquier vida, donde lo real se funde con lo imaginario, los sentimientos con las percepciones; la novela confronta al lector con una infancia marcada por la soledad, los prejuicios sociales y el desarraigo, el exilio, el amor, un desliz, relaciones que se...

Approaching fantasy, but with particularities that push it beyond the constraints of that genre, "Ornamento" details the encounter between a scientist and a group of volunteers, guinea pigs for a new recreational drug that solely affects women. After one of them, known only as Number 4, becomes romantically involved with the scientist and his wife, the couple finds their beliefs and assumptions based in a position of socioeconomic privilege shaken to the core."