by Anne Tyler · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422636885
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«El turista accidental» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (382 pages, in Spanish).
Macon Leary writes guides for reluctant travellers, people who travel for work and long for home. When his wife leaves him after the murder of their son, his orderly routine falls apart. Meeting Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer, confronts him with the unpredictable and gives him back the chance to be happy.
Translation by Gema Vives, original in English «The Accidental Tourist» (1985). Spanish edition of 1991. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
For readers of contemporary fiction and intimate narrative, with its blend of family drama and romance.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
