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The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century. “A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the...

John Singer is a lonely deaf-mute who comes to stay as a lodger in Mick's house. No-one knows where he's from. A disparate group of people who live in the town are drawn towards Singer's kind, sympathetic nature: the owner of the café where Singer eats every day, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated Black doctor. Each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant. And he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways the could never imagine.

Mick, garçonne passionnée et ambitieuse, erre en solitaire dans les rues du sud profond des États-Unis, happée par la musique qui s'échappe des fenêtres. Au café de Biff, Mick observe John Singer, le fascinant muet au calme olympien. D'autres personnages aussi originaux qu'attachants évoluent autour d'eux, se croisent sans se rencontrer. Ils se regardent avec une curiosité pleine de tendresse face à la cruauté de la vie et à la pauvreté, portés par leurs rêves et leur soif de justice.

La obra de una de las grandes maestras de la literatura norteamericana con prólogos actualizados. Los relatos más significativos de la singular y sutil narrativa de Carson McCullers, que han accedido ya a la consideración de clásicos de la moderna literatura norteamericana. Prólogo de Paulina Flores.

Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the “we of me,” and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love.

Was ist eigentlich „normal“? Eine Frage, die sich wohl nie wirklich wird beantworten lassen. In Carson McCullers Roman „Spiegelbild im goldnen Auge“ sprengen jedenfalls alle Beteiligten die Grenzen einer rigiden, vermeintlichen „Normalität“. Ehebruch, Homosexualität, erotische Obsessionen, psychische Probleme, selbst das einfach nur anders sein als die anderen – nichts davon darf sein im streng reglementierten Mikrokosmos einer Garnison in den Südstaaten der USA.

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Fiction Prize Winner of the Kirkus fiction prize ‘You and I are family. Blood and treasure. Listen to me, I created...