A Naked Singularity

Resumen del libro

"A Naked Singularity "tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender--one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack--and how his world then slowly devolves. It's a huge, ambitious novel clearly in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, and it's told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center. Its panoramic reach takes readers through crime and courts, immigrant families and urban blight, media savagery and media satire, scatology and boxing, and even a breathless heist worthy of any crime novel. If "Infinite""Jest" stuck a pin in the map of mid-90s culture and drew our trajectory from there, "A Naked Singularity" does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural life today. In the opening sentence of William Gaddis's "A Frolic of His Own," a character sneers, "Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you get the law." "A Naked Singularity" reveals the extent of that gap, and lands firmly on the side of those who are forever getting the law.

Biografía del autor

Sergio De La Pava (Nueva Jersey, 1971) es un autor norteamericano. Es hijo de emigrantes colombianos y ejerce la abogacía en Nueva York. Su primera novela, Una singularidad desnuda, fue rechazada por varias editoriales estadounidenses. En 2008 la autopublicó y, ya en 2012, la University of Chicago Press la publicó con gran éxito de ventas y crítica. La novela recibió el premio de la revista Believer en el año 2012, ganó el premio PEN 2013 a la mejor primera novela, y fue finalista del FOLIO Prize británico en 2014. La crítica lo ha comparado con Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace y William Gaddis. Además de Una singularidad desnuda, ha publicado Personae (2011), novela cuya traducción al español será publicada por Penguin Random House Colombia.