The Leftovers (TV tie-in)

Resumen del libro

What if the Rapture happened and you got left behind? Or what if it wasnt the Rapture at all, but something murkier, a burst of mysterious, apparently random disappearances that shattered the world in a single moment, dividing history into Before and After, leaving no one unscathed? How would you rebuild your life in the wake of such a devastating event?

This is the question confronting the bewildered citizens of Mapleton, a formerly comfortable suburban community that lost over a hundred people in the Sudden Departure. Kevin Garvey, the new mayor, wants to speed up the healing process, to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized neighbors, even as his own family falls apart. His wife, Laurie, has left him to enlist in the Guilty Remnant, a homegrown cult whose members take a vow of silence but haunt the streets of town as 'living reminders' of Gods judgment. His son, Tom, is gone, too, dropping out of college to follow a sketchy prophet by the name of Holy Wayne. Only his teenaged daughter, Jill, remains, and shes definitely not the sweet A student she used to be.

Through the prism of a single family, Perrotta illuminates a familiar America made strange by grief and apocalyptic anxiety. The Leftovers is a powerful and deeply moving book about people struggling to hold onto a belief in their own futures.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Tom Perrottax{0026}lt;/b (Newark, Nueva Jersey, 1961) es escritor y guionista. Ha publicado con gran éxito de público y crítica dos libros de cuentos y ocho novelas que han sido traducidos a varios idiomas. Muchas de sus obras han sido llevadas al cine, entre ellas x{0026}lt;i Electionx{0026}lt;/i (1998), x{0026}lt;i Juegos de niñosx{0026}lt;/i (2004) x{0026} x02013;por cuyo guion estuvo nominado al Oscarx{0026} x02013;, x{0026}lt;i The Leftoversx{0026}lt;/i (2011), que se convirtió en una exitosa serie de la cadena HBO, así como x{0026}lt;i La señora Fletcherx{0026}lt;/i (2017; Libros del Asteroide, 2018). Su última novela, x{0026}lt;i Tracy Flick nunca ganax{0026}lt;/i (2022; Libros del Asteroide, 2023), que también será adaptada a la pantalla, recupera a la inolvidable protagonista de x{0026}lt;i Electionx{0026}lt;/i .x{0026}lt;/p