The Post-Birthday World
Written by Lionel Shriver
Narrated by Tanya Eby
4.5/5
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This dazzling novel from the Orange Prize–winning author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin takes a psychological and deeply human look at love and volition
Does the course of life hinge on a single kiss? Whether the American expatriate Irena McGovern does or doesn’t lean into a certain pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her smart, disciplined, intellectual American partner Lawrence, or runs off with Ramsey—a wild, exuberant British snooker star the couple has known for years. Employing a parallel-universe structure, Shriver follows Irena’s life as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men. In a tour de force that, remarkably, has no villains, Shriver explores the implications, both large and small, of our choice of mate—a subject of timeless, universal fascination for both sexes.
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver nació en 1957, en Carolina del Norte. Periodista y escritora, estudió en la Universidad de Columbia, ha vivido en Nairobi, Belfast y Bangkok, y en la actualidad reside en Londres. Después de varias novelas, en el año 2005 ganó el prestigioso Premio Orange con Tenemos que hablar de Kevin, que se convirtió en un bestseller internacional y consagró a la autora: «Un libro muy valiente, muy arriesgado, muy trabajado y muy impactante, sin concesiones ni gratuidades, de poderoso calado literario» (José María Guelbenzu, El País). Además de esta, Anagrama también ha publicado sus siguientes novelas: El mundo después del cumpleaños: «Una escritora que va siempre a por todas» (Pablo Martínez Zarracina); «Repleta de humor inteligente» (Ramón Loureiro, La Voz de Galicia); Todo esto para qué: «Mordaz y de un humor negrísimo, después de leer a Shriver ya todas las demás nos parecen tontas e insulsas» (Gabriela Wiener, Marie Claire); «Me leí su novela anterior, El día después del cumpleaños, y no quiero dejar de leerme todo lo que hace» (Lola Beccaria, El País); «Lionel Shriver no escribe, construye bombas» (Laura Fernández, El Mundo); Big Brother: «La lucidez de Lionel Shriver nos da siempre un merecido y a ratos hilarante bofetón. Nos mantiene despiertos» (Marta Sanz, El Confidencial); y Los Mandible: «Shriver perfecciona su condición de cronista social... La autoconsciente brillantez de sus diálogos y el satírico aliento de su prosa se con-juran, como en las mejores novelas de Jonathan Franzen o Jeffrey Eugenides, a favor de sus personajes, que siempre resultan cercanos» (Sergi Sánchez, El Periódico).
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