by Anne Tyler · Guanda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788860883698
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At sixty, Liam Pennywell—a man living a 'minor key' life with two failed marriages, three daughters, and only one friend—is forced to leave his teaching job. Facing the need to reinvent himself, he moves from a central apartment to a sad suburban one. After being attacked by a thief on his first night, he wakes up in a hospital bed. Obsessed with his inability to reconstruct the events, he meets Eunice at a neurologist's office. She is a naive and spontaneous woman who works as a 'professional rememberer,' acting as an external memory for an elderly man. Drawn to her and her mystery, Liam begins to see her and discovers that the days he imagined spending in solitary reading can be filled with forgotten feelings and the presence of a noisy family. Anne Tyler returns with an intense and delicate novel about a man's rebirth.
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.
