Untouchable

Resumen del libro

'"The Untouchable" is an engrossing, exquisitely written and almost bewilderingly smart book ...It's the fullest book I've read in a very long time, utterly accomplished, thoroughly readable, written by a novelist of vast talent' - Richard Ford. Victor Maskell has been betrayed. After the announcement in the Commons and the hasty revelation of his double life of wartime espionage, his disgrace is public, his knighthood revoked, his position as curator of the Queen's pictures terminated. There are questions to be answered. For whom has he been sacrificed? To what has he sacrificed his life? 'No novel burrowed deeper beneath my skin than "The Untouchable" ...Prose of great elegance, applied to a sardonic narrative, created an atmosphere at once austere, chilling and utterly believable' - John Coldstream, "Daily Telegraph". 'Banville is the most intelligent and stylish novelist currently at work in English ...the mien is austere and Victorian; the awareness, the ironic readings of the contemporary are razor-sharp' - George Steiner, "Observer". 'Brilliant displays of power and control ...magnificently written and, in its exploration of inhumanity, startlingly humane' - Alex Clark, "Guardian".

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B John Banvillex{0026}lt;/B (Wexford, Irlanda, 1945) ha trabajado como editor de x{0026}lt;I The Irish Timesx{0026}lt;/I y es colaborador habitual de x{0026}lt;I The New York Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/I . Con x{0026}lt;I El libro de las pruebasx{0026}lt;/I (Alfaguara, 2014) x{0026} x02014;integrado más tarde en x{0026}lt;I Trilogía de Freddie Montgomeryx{0026}lt;/I (Alfaguara, 2020), junto con x{0026}lt;I Fantasmasx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Ateneax{0026}lt;/I x{0026} x02014; fue finalista del Premio Booker, que obtuvo en 2005 con x{0026}lt;I El marx{0026}lt;/I (Alfaguara, 2019), consagrada además por el Irish Book Award como mejor novela del año. Entre sus obras publicadas en Alfaguara destacan también x{0026}lt;I El intocablex{0026}lt;/I (2015), la x{0026}lt;I Trilogía Cleavex{0026}lt;/I x{0026} x02014;x{0026}lt;I Eclipsex{0026}lt;/I (2014), x{0026}lt;I Imposturasx{0026}lt;/I (2015) y x{0026}lt;I Antigua luzx{0026}lt;/I (2012)x{0026} x02014;, x{0026}lt;I La guitarra azulx{0026}lt;/I (2016), x{0026}lt;I La señora Osmondx{0026}lt;/I (2018) y x{0026}lt;I Tetralogía científicax{0026}lt;/I (2022), que reúne en un solo volumen las novelas x{0026}lt;I Copérnicox{0026}lt;/I (ganadora del James Tait Black Memorial Prize), x{0026}lt;I Keplerx{0026}lt;/I (merecedora del Premio de Ficción de x{0026}lt;I The Guardianx{0026}lt;/I ), x{0026}lt;I La carta de Newtonx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Mefistox{0026}lt;/I . Bajo el pseudónimo de Benjamin Black, que continúax{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P utilizandoexclusivamente en sus ediciones en español, ha publicado en Alfaguara x{0026}lt;I El lémurx{0026}lt;/I (2009), la serie protagonizada por el doctor Quirke x{0026} x02014;x{0026}lt;I El secretox{0026}lt;/I x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;I de Christinex{0026}lt;/I (2007, 2023), x{0026}lt;I El otro nombre de Laurax{0026}lt;/I (2008), x{0026}lt;I En busca de Aprilx{0026}lt;/I (2011), x{0026}lt;I Muerte en veranox{0026}lt;/I (2012), x{0026}lt;I Venganzax{0026}lt;/I (2013), x{0026}lt;I Órdenes sagradasx{0026}lt;/I (2015), x{0026}lt;I Las sombras de Quirkex{0026}lt;/I (2017) y x{0026}lt;I Quirke en San Sebastiánx{0026}lt;/I (2021)x{0026} x02014;, x{0026}lt;I La rubia de ojos negrosx{0026}lt;/I (2014) y x{0026}lt;I Los lobos de Pragax{0026}lt;/I (2019). En 2014 le fue otorgado el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras por su inteligente, honda y original creación novelesca . x{0026}lt;I Las singularidadesx{0026}lt;/I (2023) es su última novela.x{0026}lt;/P