VERNON GOD LITTLE

Gracias Erica por tus palabras! Incitan a seguir con DB.

Hablando de libros para recomendar...por fin hice limpieza de mis closets y encontré un libro maravilloso que seguramente ya había recomendado aqui.

Se llama Vernon God Little. Y el autor se llama DBC Pierre. Investigando un poco, DBC quiere decir Dirty But Clean. Así se puso el muchacho.


Por cierto, ganó el Man Booker Award en el 2003.

Les dejo parte del review de amazon. El libro es un joya. Confíen en mi y léanlo (en inglés de preferencia, hay varias cosas que van a perder con la traducción).


"The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His mother, endlessly awaiting the delivery of a new refrigerator, seems to exist only to twist an emotional knife in his back; her friend, Palmyra, structures her life around the next meal at the Bar-B-Chew Barn; officer Vaine Gurie has Vernon convicted of the crime before she's begun the investigation; reporter Eulalio Ledesma hovers between a comforting father-figure and a sadistic Bond villain; and Jesus, his best friend in the world, is dead--a victim of the killings. As his life explodes before him, Vernon flees his home in pursuit of a tropical fantasy: a cabin on a beach in Mexico he once saw in the movie Against All Odds. But the police--and TV crews--are in hot pursuit. "

En algun momento quiero releerlo. Si alguien lo lee por favor déjenme un comentario por aqui.