Destination: New York
Georges Prosper Remi (Hergé)
★ 6/10
1936
Overview
Visual selection
Libros en New York
11 booksDescription
Disfruta de historias que transcurren en la ciudad que nunca duerme.
Poet in New York
Federico García Lorca
★ 6/10
1930
Poems
I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron
★ 6/10
2006
Collection of ironic articles about life in New York.
The goldfinch
Donna Tartt
★ 8/10
2013
At the age of 13, Theo Decker, the son of a devout mother and a reckless and largely absent father, survived an accident that would otherwise destroy his life. Alone and undirected in New York, he is welcomed by the family of a wealthy friend.
Found in the Street
Patricia Highsmith
★ 6/10
1986
The narrative scenario is the Greenwich Village of New York, captured here in all its wealth of details and contrasts, from yuppie sophistication to the deafness of marginal worlds. Every year thousands of young people from provinces come there in search of success; Elsie is, in a sense, one more: beautiful, ambitious, sexually ambiguous but at the bottom innocent. But it has something special, an erotic endibles that captures men and women equally.
The king receives
Eduardo Mendoza
★ 6/10
2018
Barcelona, 1968. Rufo Batalla receives his first order as a plump in a newspaper: to cover a prince's wedding in exile with a beautiful young lady from high society. Coincidences and misunderstandings lead him to build friendship with the prince, who entrusts him, among other things, to write the chronicle of his peculiar history. The oppressive atmosphere of the grey Franco Spain will soon be small for Rufo, who will travel to New York with little money, great hopes and the diffuse goal of doing something exciting with his life.
The captain's daughters
María Dueñas
★ 6/10
2018
New York, 1936. The small food house The Captain starts his walk on 14th Street, one of the enclaves of the Spanish colony that at that time resides in the city. The accidental death of its owner, the tarambana Emilio Arenas, forces its indomitable twenty-year-old daughters to take over the business while in court the collection of a promising compensation is resolved. The temperamentals Victoria, Mona and Luz Arenas, who have been harassed and harassed by the urgent need to survive, will make way between skyscrapers, compatriots, adversities and loves, determined to make a dream a reality.
U.S.A.: The Big Money
John Dos Passos
★ 6/10
1936
The big money, the final book of the US trilogy of John Dos Passos, presents an America that lives the industrial boom of the post-war: the stock market emerges, Lindbergh makes its flight around the world, Henry Ford opens his car factory... From New York to Hollywood, between loving adventures and business covenants, the country is unfettered to the Great Depression of 1929.
Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos
★ 6/10
1925
< div class = "p-3" > Manhattan Transfer has passed to history as the first great success of the influence of film assembly on literary narrative and as the best and most experienced portrait of the convulsive city of New York in the 1920s. < / div > < div class = "p-3" > An impressive gallery of characters, with their illusions and frustrations, pass before the eyes of the reader; each one stars a scene, each puppet makes his own cabriola and disappears, sometimes to not return, as a fire that illustrates an aspect of the rich, complex and changing reality that is the Great Apple; on other occasions they reappear, they relate to each other, and the various episodes, subject to an heir assembly of the cinematographic techniques, make up a fresh, daily language, in which they combine very different accents and that manages to transmit with extraordinary force the simultaneity of actions. < / div >
On the road
Jack Kerouac
★ 7/10
1952
With an unmistakable bop style, which was awarded to Kerouac the title of "heir to Charlie Parker," this novel narrates the crazed trips, on board of Cadillacs borrowed and Dodges lost, by Dean Moriarty, the mythical hipster, the hero of all the Beatniks, "a madman, an angel, a cheerleader" and the narrator Sal Paradise, walking the continent, from New York to New Orleans, Mexico City, San Francisco, Chicago and back to New York.
The swarm
Arthur Herzog
★ 6/10
1987
Some isolated events caused by "killer bees" that came to produce fatal accidents inspired the plot of this novel, in which the author manages to build a credible account in which swarm becomes a real danger to the people of the United States and manage to check out the people of Manhattan, in the very heart of New York.