Canada

Resumen del libro

First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later. In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did following the war.

His father, Bev, was a talkative, plank-shouldered man, an airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Dell and his twin sister, Berner, could easily see why their mother might have been attracted to him. But their mother Neeva - from an educated, immigrant, Jewish family - was shy, artistic and alienated from their father's small-town world of money scrapes and living on-the-fly.

It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest, Dell is saved by a family friend before the authorities think to arrive.

Driving across the Montana border into Saskatchewan his life hurtles towards the unknown, towards a hotel in a deserted town, towards the violent and enigmatic American Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself - a landscape of rescue and abandonment. But as Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose own past lies on the other side of a border.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Richard Fordx{0026}lt;/strong (Jackson, Mississippi, 1944) es Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras 2016 y ha publicado las novelasx{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Un trozo de mi corazónx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong La última oportunidadx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Incendiosx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Canadáx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em y la serie protagonizada por Frank Bascombe: x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El periodista deportivox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong El Día de la Independenciax{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em (premios Pulitzer y PEN/Faulkner), x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Acción de Graciasx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Francamente, Frankx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em yx{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Sé míax{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em ; cuatro libros de narraciones, x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Rock Springsx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong De mujeres con hombresx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em , x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Pecados sin cuentox{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;em x{0026}lt;strong Lamento lo ocurridox{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/em , y los volúmenes memorialísticos x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Mi madrex{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Flores en las grietasx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Entre ellosx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , editados todos en Anagrama y que le han confirmado como uno de los mejores escritores norteamericanos de su generación: El mejor escritor en activo de este país (Raymond Carver); Un crítico norteamericano ha dicho que Ford se inscribía en la tradición de Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck... Se está convirtiendo tranquilamente en el mejor escritor norteamericano (Bernard Géniès, x{0026}lt;em Le Nouvel Observateurx{0026}lt;/em ); Richard Ford nos habla de un mundo que nos pertenece, como una canción de Tom Waits o x{0026} x02013;sirva como paradigma iconográficox{0026} x02013; el film de Wim Wenders Paris-Texas (J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, x{0026}lt;em El Paísx{0026}lt;/em ).x{0026}lt;/p