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Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget--his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death.--From publisher description.
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Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, Alternative histories (Fiction), American, American Autobiographical fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, political, Fiction, alternative history, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Traffic accident victims, Insomnia, Political fictionPeople
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Man in the Dark: A Novel
Aug 19, 2008, Brand: Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Audio
audio cd
1427205515 9781427205513
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Un hombre en la oscuridad
2008, Círculo de Lectores, S.A.
Hardcover
in Spanish
8467232536 9788467232530
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Un hombre en la oscuridad
Sep 02, 2008, Editorial Anagrama
paperback
in Spanish
8433974858 9788433974853
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August Brill ha sufrido un accidente de coche y se está recuperando en casa de su hija, en Vermont. No puede dormir, e inventa historias en la oscuridad. En una de ellas, es Owen Brick, un joven mago que despierta en el fondo de un foso. No sabe dónde está pero oye el ruido de una batalla. Entonces aparece el sargento Serge, que le ayuda a salir, y Brick descubre que América está inmersa en una oscura guerra civil. Los atentados del once de septiembre no han tenido lugar, y tampoco la guerra de Irak. Los Estados Unidos combaten desde hace tiempo, pero contra ellos mismos. Unos cuantos estados han declarado la independencia. Brick se entera de que su misión es asesinar a un tal Blake, o Block, o Black, un hombre que no puede dormir, y que inventa en la noche esa guerra que no acabará nunca si él no muere. Aunque no se llama Blake ni Block ni Black, sino August Brill, y puede contarnos una feroz y veraz fábula de nuestros días. «Prepárense a robarle tiempo al sueño para devorársela en una sola noche. Así es Auster, queridos» (Manuel Rodríguez Rivero); «Una espléndida historia de fantasías posibles, mundos paralelos y juegos con la Historia» (Javier Aparicio Maydeu, El País).
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