The candy house
the Jennifer Egan
One of the 10 best books of the year according to The New York Times. The culmination of a great narrative project begun with Time is a Scoundrel (Pulitzer Prize)
The Candy House, which culminates Jennifer Egan’s ambitious narrative project begun with Time is a Scoundrel (Pulitzer Prize in 2011), tells the story of Bix Bouton, a brilliant IT businessman in downturn who ends up patenting a successful technological tool that It allows us to access and share our memories, and it has seduced thousands of people. With an astonishing variety of narrative resources, Egan focuses on the digital world and social networks and tells the story of various characters looking for a real connection in an increasingly digitalized and hyperconnected world.
Jennifer Egan (Chicago, 1962) is one of the most recognized writers of current American literature. He has published a collection of short stories and six novels, among which Manhattan Beach, the multi-award-winning El tiempo es un canalla (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and La casa de caramel (one of the ten best books of 2022 according to The New York Times), all three in Salamandra. Her stories and journalistic pieces have appeared in such prestigious media as The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, McSweeney’s and The New York Times Magazine.
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