Avenue of Mysteries

Resumen del libro

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.
In "Avenue of Mysteries," Juan Diego a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what "has" happened, as opposed to what "will, " Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you.
Lupe doesn't know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future?
As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older most of all, in what we remember and what we dream we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present.
"Avenue of Mysteries "is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past in Mexico collides with his future."

Biografía del autor

John Irving nació en Exeter (New Hampshire) en 1942. Tusquets Editores ha publicado sus novelas El mundo según Garp; El hotel New Hampshire; Príncipes de Maine, reyes de Nueva Inglaterra; La epopeya del bebedor de agua; Oración por Owen; Libertad para los osos; Un hijo del circo; Una mujer difícil; La cuarta mano; Hasta que te encuentre, Personas como yo y Avenida de los Misterios, así como el libro de relatos La novia imaginaria, el volumen autobiográfico Mis líos con el cine y el cuento infantil El ruido que hace alguien cuando no quiere hacer ruido. Irving ha sido galardonado por la Fundación Rockefeller, por el National Endowment for the Arts y por la Fundación Guggenheim; ha recibido asimismo el Ox{0026} x02019;Henry Award y el National Book Award (del que ha estado nominado tres veces), y en el año 2000 recibió el Oscar por el guion para la película Las normas de la Casa de la Sidra, basado en su novela Príncipes de Maine, reyes de Nueva Inglaterra y protagonizada por Michael Caine.