Nora Webster

Resumen del libro

This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards. Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today. It is the late 1960s in Ireland.
Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them. Slowly, through the gift of music and the power of friendship, she finds a glimmer of hope and a way of starting again.
He is the author of seven other novels including Blackwater Lightship, The Master and The Testament of Mary, all three of which were nominated for the Booker Prize, with The Master also winning the IMPAC Award, and Brooklyn, which won the Costa Novel Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. In 2014 Nora Webster was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Awards.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Colm Tóibínx{0026}lt;/B (Enniscorthy, 1955) es uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses de nuestro tiempo, ganador del Forster Award en 1995 y de la Medalla Bodley en 2022. De su obra cabe destacar las novelas x{0026}lt;I The Master x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2018), ganadora del Premio IMPAC, el Premio al mejor libro extranjero de x{0026}lt;I Babelio, x{0026}lt;/I el Los Angeles Times Book Prize y finalista del Booker Prize; x{0026}lt;I El testamento de Maríax{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), finalista del Man Booker; x{0026}lt;I Brooklynx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016), su obra de ficción más conocida, llevada al cine por John Crowley y ganadora del Premio Costa Book; x{0026}lt;I Nora Websterx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016), ganadora del Premio Hawthornden, x{0026}lt;I La casa de los nombres x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2017) y x{0026}lt;I Madres e hijosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2019), una selección de los relatos recogidos en x{0026}lt;I The Empty Familyx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Mothers and Sonsx{0026}lt;/I ,ganadora delEdge Hill Short Story Prize. Tóibín es también un excelente crítico literario, como demuestran las piezas reunidas en el volumen x{0026}lt;I Nuevas maneras de matar a tu madrex{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2013). Su última novela, x{0026}lt;I El magox{0026}lt;/I , ha sido ganadora del premio Rathbones Folio y ha sido escogida como uno de los mejores libros de año por x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I The Timesx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I NPRx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I The Washington Postx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Vogue x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I The Wall Street Journalx{0026}lt;/I . Su obra ha sido traducida a más de treinta idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P