Fuera de quicio (Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Fowler, Karen Joy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8416420203 ISBN 13: 9788416420209

Publisher: Malpaso Editorial, 2016

Synopsis

Fuera de quicio enters the disorder of a family that adopts a chimpanzee, Fern. After a few years, they were forced to give Fern back, causing a series of traumatic changes: the melancholy mother, alcoholic father, the eldest son leaving home to search for Fern, and Rosemary — the indirect protagonist of the story — lives the rest of her life obsessed with taking the blame for losing her sister. This novel is an unlikely cross between a psychological thriller and scientific essay. Karen Joy Fowler manages this hybrid with enviable ease and creates a plot that is her most ambitious to date.

About this title

About the Author:

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of Sarah Canary, The Sweet-Heart Season, Black Glass, and The Jane Austen Book Club. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014, confirming Karen Joy Fowler as one of the brightest figures of current literature.

Review:

 “A novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get . . . [Its] fresh diction and madcap plot bend the tone toward comedy, but it never mislays its solemn raison d’être. Monkeyshines aside, this is a story of Everyfamily in which loss engraves relationships, truth is a soulful stalker and coming-of-age means facing down the mirror, recognizing the shape-shifting notion of self.”—Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review, on the English-language edition

About this edition

• Publisher: Malpaso Editorial
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 8416420203
• ISBN 13: 9788416420209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318