Transatlantic

R$ 110,90

Sinopse

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached? 1845. Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. On his travels he inspires a young maid to go to New York to embrace a free world, but the land does not always fulfill its promises for her. From the violent battlefields of the Civil War to the ice lakes of northern Missouri, it is her youngest daughter Emily who eventually finds her way back to Ireland. Can we pass from the new world to the old? How does the past shape the future? In TransAtlantic, National Book Award-winning Colum McCann has achieved an outstanding act of literary bravura. Intricately crafted, poetic and deeply affecting it weaves together personal stories to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.

Participantes

Autor: Colum Mccann

Autor

COLUM MCCANN

Autor de dois livros de contos e seis romances, como Zoli, Dancer e This side of brightness, Colum McCann (1965, Dublin, Irlanda) foi traduzido para mais de 30 línguas e teve seus textos publicados em revistas como New Yorker, New York Times Magazine e Paris Review. Começou a carreira como jornalista do Irish Press e já contribuiu com The Guardian, The Independent, La Republicca, Paris Match e The New York Times, entre outros. Seu último trabalho, Let the great world spin, lhe rendeu, em 2009, o National Book Award e foi considerado pela revista Esquire “o primeiro grande romance sobre 11 de setembro”. O livro parte da famosa travessia do equilibrista francês Philippe Petit entre as torres do World Trade Center de Nova York, em 1974, para narrar histórias fictícias de anônimos que o observavam no momento.

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