El ingl?s macarr?nico de Ludmila es una novela sarc?stica, tan mordaz e irreverente como fascinante, repleta de escenas delirantes e ingeniosas que revelan una mirada ins?lita sobre la realidad.Gran Breta?a, en un futuro cercano: el sistema de sanidad p?blico es privatizado, como todo, y la Albion House Institution, un refugio para gente con deformidades de nacimiento (en el que se rumorea que hay descendientes de la familia real, fruto de siglos de consanguinidad), sufre los rigores de la econom?a. Para ahorrar, las autoridades deciden separar a dos hermanos siameses, Blair ...
The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His mother, endlessly awaiting the delivery of a new refrigerator, seems to exist only to twist an emotional knife in his back; her friend, Palmyra, structures her life around the next meal at the Bar-B-Chew Barn; officer Vaine Gurie has Vernon ...
