‘A fantastic novel, brilliantly crafted’ MARCUS DU SAUTOY 'Enthralling … not to be missed' GUARDIAN
Joseph O. Neill Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
23 febbraio 1964
Joseph O'Neill è celebrato per le sue acute esplorazioni della vita moderna, addentrandosi spesso in temi di alienazione, identità e la ricerca di significato in diversi paesaggi culturali. La sua prosa è caratterizzata da un sofisticato dominio della lingua, acuta osservazione e un tono che bilancia malinconia e arguzia. O'Neill affronta il suo mestiere con una precisione letteraria che attira i lettori nel complesso territorio psicologico dei suoi personaggi. Le sue opere offrono profonde meditazioni sulla condizione umana, lasciando un'impressione duratura.
Guter Ärger
- 176pagine
- 7 ore di lettura
Ein einsamer Hochzeitsgast unterhält sich mit einer Gans; zwei Dichter streiten, ob sie sich an einer gereimten "Gnade für Edward Snowden"-Petition beteiligen sollen; ein ängstlicher Ehemann überlässt es seiner Frau, einen Einbrecher zu stellen; ein anderer findet niemanden, der ihm ein Leumundszeugnis zur Miete einer Wohnung ausstellen will. Von bürgerlichen Gesichtshaarmoden bis zu elterlichem Schlafentzug - in diesen dezidiert zeitgemäßen Storys richtet Joseph O'Neill einen scharfen Blick auf unsere Lebensweise im frühen 21. Jahrhundert. Schwankende Stimmungslagen und Denkungsarten stellen die Trivialität, die unterdrückte Gewalt und die bisweilen überraschende Schönheit unseres Lebens zur Schau. Diese brillanten Storys sind voll jäher Volten und schneidendem Witz. Sie transportieren eine anhaltende Verblüffung darüber, dass es uns in der westlichen Welt noch immer so unverdientermaßen gut geht.
The Dog
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 The new novel from Joseph O'Neill, his first since NETHERLAND. "O'Neill, in this book, has come of age as a novelist ... a comic masterpiece ... as mordantly funny as the best of stand-up comedy ... Superb' John Banville, New York Review of Books
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country.--From publisher description.
While searching for his missing father, Anthony Julian embarks on a terrifying journey into the Earth's interior. There he discovers a subterranean world, where descendants of the Roman Army suffer under a totalitarian regime in which individualism is completely obliterated by telepathic means. Refusing to join this rigidly controlled society, Anthony must fight to save his father and find a route to the surface -- or perish