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Los 7 libros de esta pila
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El Prestigio
Christopher Priest · 1995
Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of Victorian music halls, they prowl edgily in the background of each other's shadowy life, driven to the extremes by a deadly combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiable curiosity. At the heart of the row is an amazing illusion they both perform during their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple, and the reader is in on it almost from the start, but to the antagonists the real mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than the mere workings of a trick.
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Tenemos que hablar de Kevin
Lionel Shriver · 2003
Eva es una mujer satisfecha consigo misma. Es autora y editora de guías de viaje para gente tan urbana y feliz como ella, tiene su propia empresa y recorre el mundo buscando material para sus libros. Casada desde hace tres años con Franklin, un fotógrafo e iluminador que trabaja en publicidad, decide, ya cerca de los cuarenta años y tras muchas dudas, tener un hijo. Y el producto de tan indecisa decisión será Kevin. Eva ha optado por la maternidad en un acto de amor, una noche en la que inesperada tardanza de su marido y la angustia e la espera la hicieron tomar consciencia de la mortalidad de Franklin, de su propia mortalidad. Pero, casi desde el comienzo, nada se parece a los inefables mitos familiares de la clase media urbana y feliz. Para empezar, Eva siente que Franklin se ha apoderado de su maternidad y la está convirtiendo a ella en el mero contenedor del hijo por nacer, privándola de placeres tan apreciados por Eva como el sexo, la gimnasia o el vino. Y cuando nace, Kevin es el típico bebé difícil que tortura a los padres con sus llantos, que no quiere comer y hasta parece rechazar a su madre. Y con el tiempo se convertirá en el terror de las niñeras, en un adolescente terrible, en el monstruoso antihéroe a quien nada le interesa sino la belleza de la pura maldad. Y en ese trayecto con final sangriento, dos días antes de cumplir los dieciséis años, el niño es un enigma para su madre, que nunca le ha podido querer.
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Falsa identidad
Sarah Waters · 2002
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naive gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals.The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of "startling power" and The Seattle Times has praised her work as "gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses." Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career.
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Vida de Pi
Yann Martel · 2003
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan… and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.
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El asesinato de Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie · 1926
Mrs. Ferrari ha muerto víctima de una sobredosis de somníferos. Hace un anu marido murió al parecer de una gastritis aguda. Caroline Sheppard, la hermana del médico del pueblo, sospecha que fue envenenado. Poco después, Roger Ackroyd, el terrateniente de la villa, aparece muerto con una daga tunecina clavada en la espalda. ¿Estarán las tres muertes relacionadas? ¿Tendrá Caroline razones para sospechar? Afortunadamente al pueblo ha llegado un nuevo vecino, un hombre bajito de grandes bigotes, que se ha retirado a descansar y a cultivar calabacines.
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Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane · 2003
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
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El club de lucha
Chuck Palahniuk · 1996
A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together. Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.