The Secret History

Resumen del libro

'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!'

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

'Haunting, compelling and brilliant' The Times

'Irresistible and seductive' Guardian

'Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' New York Times

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Donna Tartt x{0026}lt;/B nació en 1963 en Greenwood, Mississippi, y se educó en el Benington College y la Universidad de Mississippi. Voraz lectora, domina el latín, el griego y el francés. Puede citar de memoria a Santo Tomás, Platón, Buda, Dante, Proust, Poe, Salinger y a su mayor ídolo, T. S. Eliot.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P En 1992 se dio a conocer con x{0026}lt;I El secretox{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), unánimemente celebrada por la crítica, a la que siguieron x{0026}lt;I Un juego de niñosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014) y la aclamada x{0026}lt;I El jilguero x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), ganadora del National Book Critics Circle Award en 2013 y del Premio Pulitzer a la mejor obra de ficción en 2014. Ha escrito, además, cuatro relatos cortos y tres obras de no ficción.x{0026}lt;/P