An edition of Post-Birthday World (2003)

El mundo después del cumpleaños

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An edition of Post-Birthday World (2003)

El mundo después del cumpleaños

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Irina y Lawrence son dos americanos que viven en Londres. Desde hace cinco años, el día del cumpleaños de su amigo Ramsey Acton, cenan con él. Irina se compadece un poco de Ramsey, un jugador profesional de snooker, que está solo desde su divorcio –o eso es lo que ella cree–, y siempre ha evitado quedarse a solas con él. Llega el día del cumpleaños, Lawrence, ausente en un viaje de trabajo, insiste en que Irina cene con Ramsey. Ella no tiene ninguna gana, pero van a un refinado restaurante japonés, y después a casa de él. E Irina descubre a un Ramsey desconocido, y lo que iba a ser un encuentro inocuo se convierte en la divisoria de las aguas, en ese instante único en que la decisión que se tome cambia para siempre la vida. Shriver, en un giro inesperado,conduce a los protagonistas de su novela y al lector pordos caminos simultáneos y alternativos, los dos futurosque se abren ante Irina...«Fascinará a cualquiera que se haya preguntado algunavez qué habría pasado si hubiera seguido, o ignorado,uno de esos impulsos que cambian la vida» (Francine Prose, People).

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The Post-Birthday World
2008, HarperCollins
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2008, Harper Perennial
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2007, HarperCollins Publishers
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El mundo después del cumpleaños
2003, Editorial Anagrama, S.A., Editorial Anagrama
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704

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OL25924255M
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9788433977311

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In this eagerly awaited new novel, Lionel Shriver, the Orange Prize-winning author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, delivers an imaginative and entertaining look at the implications, large and small, of whom we choose to love. Using a playful parallel-universe structure, The Post-Birthday World follows one woman's future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men.

Children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a quiet and settled life in London with her partner, fellow American expatriate Lawrence Trainer, a smart, loyal, disciplined intellectual at a prestigious think tank. To their small circle of friends, their relationship is rock solid. Until the night Irina unaccountably finds herself dying to kiss another man: their old friend from South London, the stylish, extravagant, passionate top-ranking snooker player Ramsey Acton. The decision to give in to temptation will have consequences for her career, her relationships with family and friends, and perhaps most importantly the texture of her daily life.

Hinging on a single kiss, this enchanting work of fiction depicts Irina's alternating futures with two men temperamentally worlds apart yet equally honorable. With which true love Irina is better off is neither obvious nor easy to determine, but Shriver's exploration of the two destinies is memorable and gripping. Poignant and deeply honest, written with the subtlety and wit that are the hallmarks of Shriver's work, The Post-Birthday World appeals to the what-if in us all.

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What began as coincidence had crystallised into tradition: on the sixth of July, they would have dinner with Ramsey Acton on his birthday.
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