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Juan Magraner
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La nueva obra maestra de Paolo Giordano: una novela sobre lo que nos pasa y no podemos explicarnos.
En noviembre de 2015, el narrador, un periodista de formación científica, ha acudido a París para cubrir una cumbre sobre el clima pocos días después de los atentados yihadistas. La crisis que planea en el sombrío ambiente de la ciudad parece un espejo de una crisis más íntima: la que atraviesa la relación que mantiene con su compañera, Lorenza. Y en busca de un sentido a todo lo que está viviendo, a sus miedos y a sus dudas, mientras prepara un libro sobre los efectos radiactivos de la bomba atómica se encuentra con personajes que serán más relevantes de lo que sospecha: un amigo recién separado, un climatólogo experto en nubes, una reportera en zonas de conflicto o un sacerdote que ha encontrado la felicidad donde nunca lo hubiera imaginado. Una de las cosas que casualmente descubrirá es que, en caso de una gran catástrofe mundial, Tasmania es uno de los mejores lugares donde refugiarse. Pero su crisis, decididamente, no es solo suya: es la de todos nosotros, la de nuestra vida tal como la conocemos y la del planeta.
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Critic reviews
¿El mejor libro del año? Tasmania, de Paolo Giordano.
-- Corriere della Sera
Un libro feroz y, al mismo tiempo, conmovedor.
-- Elena Stancanelli, Tutto Libri (La Stampa)
Tasmania habla de nosotros, de nuestras crisis, las que están relacionadas con la crisis más devastadora, la del clima.
-- Daria Bignardi, Vanity Fair
Un sugerente diario de viaje en medio del apocalipsis contemporáneo. El narrador lidia con una crisis conyugal y –quizá— existencial.
-- Nicola Lagioia, Il Venerdì
Un libro hermoso e importante, quizá la novela definitiva sobre lo que nos pasa y no podemos explicarnos.
-- Nicola H. Cosentino, Corriere della Sera
Un viaje extraordinario a través de un apocalipsis contemporáneo y personal.
-- Vicente Verdú, El País
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Clark Griswold was onto something...at least with his annual holiday meltdown. And since the last three weeks of my life have been riddled with humbug—another breakup, a broken toe, an office promotion I deserved and didn’t get—I’m not at all in the mood to celebrate nor have the happ, happ, happiest Christmas EVER.
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Gaslighting and games
- By FMC on 12-22-22
By: Kate Stewart
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He's Gone
- By: Rebecca Collomosse
- Narrated by: Victoria Blunt, Cicely Whitehead, Joe Eyre
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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My fiancé brought me tea and scrambled eggs in bed that morning, and we snuggled together, talking about buying our rings, and about our perfect wedding next year. Then we headed into town. He held my hand and gazed at the ring I liked best, a smile spreading slowly over his face. Then a glass of bubbly to celebrate. I felt flushed, excited and ready for the rest of my life with the man I loved. We race to get on the train home. It screams to a halt and I run towards its open doors. Made it. I think he’s right behind me — but when I turn around, he’s gone.
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Disappointing plot
- By TerriSweeta on 12-04-24
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The Answer Is No
- A Short Story
- By: Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
- Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
- By joey1603 on 12-01-24
By: Fredrik Backman, and others
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Starship Troopers
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.
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The definitive version!
- By Kristopher G. Hesson on 10-03-24
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Dead Med
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso, Scott Merriman
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.
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Hmm
- By Morgan Meaux on 08-22-24
By: Freida McFadden