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Un thriller absorbente por la autora de La chica del tren. Con la misma intensidad con la que ha cautivado a 27 millones de lectores en todo el mundo, la autora de La chica del tren, Paula Hawkins, nos ofrece un brillante thriller sobre las heridas que provocan los secretos que ocultamos. El descubrimiento del cuerpo de un joven asesinado brutalmente en una casa flotante de Londres desencadena sospechas sobre tres mujeres. Laura es la chica conflictiva que quedó con la víctima la noche en que murió; Carla, aún de luto por la muerte de un familiar, es la tía del joven, y Miriam es la indiscreta vecina que oculta información sobre el caso a la policía. Tres mujeres que no se conocen, pero que tienen distintas conexiones con la víctima. Tres mujeres que, por diferentes razones, viven con resentimiento y que, consciente o inconscientemente, esperan el momento de reparar el daño que se les ha hecho. Mira lo que has provocado.

Un admirable despliegue imaginativo, un depurado estilo y una trama que sorprende y seduce, abrirán al lector de este libro las puertas de un mundo primigenio y su cosmogonía.

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.