The Testament of Mary

Resumen del libro

Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family. From the author of Brooklyn, in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. As her life and her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth, Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened. In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity, she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully human. Praise for The Testament of Mary : This is a short book, but it is as dense as a diamond. It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta, but it is completely heretical...Toibin maintains all the dignity of Mary without subscribing to the myths that have accumulated around her . (Edmund White, Irish Times ). Depicting the harrowing losses and evasions that can go on between mothers and sons ...Toibin creates a reversed Pieta: he holds the mother in his arms . ( Independent ).

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