Foreign Bodies

Resumen del libro

The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape lassitude by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brother's family. Travelling from America to France, Bea leaves the stigma of divorce on the far side of the Atlantic; newly liberated, she chooses to defend her nephew and his girlfriend Lili by waging a war of letters on the brother she has promised to help.

But Bea's generosity is a mixed blessing: those she tries to help seem to be harmed, and as Bea's family unravel from around her, she finds herself once again drawn to the husband she thought she had left in the past...By one of America's great living writers, Foreign Bodies is a truly virtuosic novel. The story of Bea's travails on the continent is a fierce and heartbreaking insight into the curious nature of love: how it can be commanded and abused; earned and cherished; or even lost altogether.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Cynthia Ozickx{0026}lt;/B (Nueva York, 1928) es una de las narradoras norteamericanas más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Sus padres, farmacéuticos rusos, inculcaron una profunda fe judía a Ozick, que se crió en el barrio neoyorquino del Bronx. Autora de ensayos, novelas y cuentos, es una de las herederas más aventajadas del realismo decimonónico en lengua inglesa, y se la ha comparado con figuras de la talla de Charles Dickens y Jane Austen. Su nombre suele sonar en relación al Premio Nobel de Literatura, ha sido candidata al Man Booker International Prize y el Orange Prize, y se la ha descrito como la Emily Dickinson del Bronx . Lumen ha publicado sus novelas x{0026}lt;I Los últimos testigosx{0026}lt;/I (2006), x{0026}lt;I Cuerpos extrañosx{0026}lt;/I (2013), esta última un homenaje a x{0026}lt;I Los embajadoresx{0026}lt;/I , de Henry James, a quien ella considera su maestro; x{0026}lt;I Cuentos reunidosx{0026}lt;/I (2015), un volumen con los cuentos más destacados de la autora y x{0026}lt;I El chalx{0026}lt;/I (2016), una joya que resume todo el horror del siglo XX y se adelanta a las tragedias del XXI.x{0026}lt;/P