The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

Resumen del libro

T.S. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a tight-lipped cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. His brother has gone, his sister seems normal but might not be, and his dog - Verywell - is going mad.

Its odd, but then families are. T.S. makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks: maps of the countryside, maps of his familys behaviour, maps of animal and plant life. He is brilliant, and the Smithsonian Institution agrees, though when they telephone with news that he has won a major scientific prize they dont suspect for a minute that he is twelve years old.

So begins T.S.s life-changing adventure, fleeing in the dead of night, riding freight trains two thousand miles across America - how else do 12-year-olds get to Washington D.C.? - to reach the awards dinner, the fame, the secret-society membership and the TV appearances that beckon. But is this what he wants? Do maps and lists explain the world? And why are adults so strange?

Biografía del autor

Reif Larsen tiene 29 años. Estudió en la Brown University y ha sido profesor en la Universidad de Columbia, donde cursó un máster en Ficción. Como cineasta ha realizado documentales en el África Subsahariana, Estados Unidos y Reino Unido. Las obras escogidas de T. S. Spivet, su primera novela, se ha convertido en un éxito.