Laughing Monsters

Resumen del libro

A post-9/11 literary spy thriller from the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of Smoke
Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair allows himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless.

Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago.

Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a college girl named Davidia from Colorado. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland'but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Adriko, Nair, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.

A high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world, Denis Johnson's The Laughing Monsters shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Denis Johnsonx{0026}lt;/B (1949-2017) nació en Munich, pero se crió en Tokio, Manila y Washington. Desde la publicación de sus primeras obras se convirtió en un autor de culto en Estados Unidos. Recibió la beca Lanna Fellowship y el Whiting Writer's Award, entre otros muchos galardones. En 2007 le fue concedido el National Book Award por su novela x{0026}lt;I Árbol de Humox{0026}lt;/I (Literatura Random House, 2008). También es autor de la novela negra x{0026}lt;I Que nadie se muevax{0026}lt;/I (Roja y Negra, 2012) y de las novelas x{0026}lt;I Hijo de Jesúsx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Sueños de trenes,x{0026}lt;/I x{0026}lt;I El nombre del mundox{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Los monstruos que ríenx{0026}lt;/I , todas ellas publicadas en Literatura Random House.x{0026}lt;/P