LITERATURA

Olga, a las puertas de la muerte, explica a su nieta la manera de conseguir que cada camino que tomemos en la vida esté guiado por nuestro corazón, y que cada traspié que demos pueda mitigarse luchando con valentía contra el azar.

Una madre: Sethe, la esclava que mata a su propia hija para salvarla del horror, para que la indignidad del presente no tenga futuro posible. Una hija: Beloved, la niña que desde su nacimiento se alimento le leche mezclada con sangre, y poco a poco fue perdiendo el contacto con la realidad por la voluntad de un cariño demasiado denso. Una experiencia: el crimen como única arma contra el dolor ajeno, el amo como única justificación ante el delito y la muerte como paradójica salvación ante una vida destinada a la esclavitud. Con este dolor y este amor en apariencia indecibles la ganadora el Premio Nobel de Literatura 1993 ha construido una soberbia novela, que en 1988 le valió el Premio Pulitzer.

Esta obra es la brillante conclusión a la trilogía iniciada con Dune, la Casa Atreides y seguida en Dune, la Casa Harkonnen, y un valioso complemento al emocionante universo del inmortal Dune de Frank Herbert.

Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails.

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie. But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought—if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.