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by Adam Haslett · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · 316 pages
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En esta cautivadora novela de Adam Haslett, ambientada en los días previos a la crisis financiera de 2008, se exploran los frágiles cimientos de una época dorada corrompida por la codicia. Doug Fanning, un joven tiburón financiero, construye una ostentosa mansión en Boston, lo que desata un conflicto con su vecina, Charlotte Graves, una profesora de historia que denuncia la venta ilegal del terreno. En medio de esta disputa, se encuentra Nate Fuller, un estudiante atormentado. Mientras Fanning realiza operaciones financieras al límite de la legalidad, el hermano de Charlotte, Henry Graves, director de la Reserva Federal de Nueva York, descubre una trama de corrupción financiera de gran magnitud. Esta novela ambiciosa retrata la convulsa modernidad a través de personajes con posturas éticas irreconciliables.

Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer and journalist. His debut short story collection, You Are Not a Stranger Here, and his second novel, Imagine Me Gone, were both finalists for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy in Berlin. In 2017, he won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.