Parrot and Olivier in America (A)

Resumen del libro

From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author, an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, and an irrepressibly funny portrait of the impossible friendship between a master and a servant.

Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatised child of survivors of the Revolution; Parrot the son of an itinerant English printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined by their travels in America.

When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness

Biografía del autor

El australiano Peter Carey es autor de trece novelas, entre las que destacan Oscar y Lucinda (Alfaguara), La verdadera historia de la banda de Kelly (El Aleph Editores), Mi vida de farsante (Random House), El embaucador (Alfaguara), La naturaleza de las lágrimas (Alfaguara). Ha ganado dos veces el Premio Booker y sus otros premios incluyen el Premio de Escritores de la Commonwealth y el Premio Literario Miles Franklin.