Hasta que te encuentre

john irving carlos milla soler

Hasta que te encuentre, la undécima novela de John Irving, narra la historia del actor Jack Burns. Su madre, Alice, es una tatuadora de Toronto. Su padre, William Burns, un joven organista de Edimburgo adicto a los tatuajes. En 1969, con sólo cuatro años, Jack Burns acompaña a su madre en un viaje por los diferentes puertos del mar del Norte y del Báltico a la búsqueda del padre de Jack, que abandonó a Alice tras dejarla embarazada. Recorren sin resultado los ambientes más sórdidos de Copenhague, Amsterdam, Oslo, Helsinki y Estocolmo, y tienen que regresar a Canadá.

Jack comienza allí su educación en un colegio donde es el único niño y donde se iniciará sexualmente con una chica mucho mayor que él; esta experiencia, y las que vivirá en diferentes internados de Nueva Inglaterra, conformarán de manera indeleble su carácter. Cuando convertido en actor, celebre la obtención de un Oscar en el año 2000, partirá de nuevo hacia Europa, esta vez solo, atraído por el inquietante misterio de su desconocido padre.

Genres fictioncontemporaryliteratureliterary fictionnovelsamericanthe united states of americacoming of agedramaunfinished

1024 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,2005

Places

toronto ontario, new england, hollywood los angeles california, los angeles california, california, canada,

This edition

Format: 1024 pages, Hardcover
Published: March 1, 2006 by Tusquets Editores S.A.
ISBN: 9788483103319
ASIN: 8483103311
Language: Spanish; Castilian

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About the author

john irving

JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven.
Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person.
An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages—John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Avenue of Mysteries is his fourteenth novel.