New Releases by Cormac McCarthy

«Suspende el alma del lector y, al mismo tiempo, lo arrebata en su belleza.» -El País Billy y Boyd, dos adolescentes de origen campesino, irán descubriendo las duras reglas del mundo de los adultos al tiempo que encuentran en la naturaleza el sentido heroico de sus vidas. Desde una extraña relación de afecto y complicidad con una loba acosada por los tramperos hasta el asesinato de sus padres a manos de unos cuatreros, Billy aprenderá que la belleza y la rapiña moral representan los límites inseparables de una misma aventura vital. En la frontera es el segundo volumen de la «Trilogía de la frontera».

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. "The richest and strongest work of McCarthy’s career…An achievement greater than Blood Meridian…or…The Road.” —The Atlantic 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she recalls a childhood where, by the age of seven, her own grandmother feared for her; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers. Told entirely through the transcripts of Alicia’s psychiatric sessions, Stella Maris is a searching, rigorous, intellectually challenging coda to The Passenger, a philosophical inquiry that questions our notions of God, truth, and existence.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Blends the rowdy humor of some of McCarthy’s early novels with the parched tone of his more apocalyptic later work." —The New York Times Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, is available now. 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul. Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

La storia di una salvezza impossibile. Un'opera di disperata bellezza e apicale bravura. Nel cuore di una fredda notte del 1980, Bobby Western indossa la sua muta da sommozzatore e si tuffa nelle nere profondità della baia del Mississippi. Laggiú scorge il profilo di un aereo con nove corpi in cabina, gli occhi vuoti e le braccia protese verso un gelido abbraccio. Che fine ha fatto il fantomatico decimo passeggero? Quali oscure macchinazioni cela la sua scomparsa? Dolente viandante del mondo da sempre braccato dalla perdita e dalla colpa, ora Bobby deve tornare a fuggire, inseguendo la libertà e il ricordo di una donna per sempre irraggiungibile. «Un romanzo capace di inchiodarci alla pagina come un thriller e allo stesso tempo di sollevare questioni fondamentali, facendoci interrogare sulla nostra natura, di piú: sulla nostra (in)capacità di comprendere il mistero stesso della vita». Giuseppe Culicchia, «tuttolibri - La Stampa» «L'inconscio è piú antico del linguaggio. Molto piú antico. È un concetto su cui Cormac McCarthy torna spesso. Il passeggero è un libro splendido, e a questo tipo di riflessione deve molto». Nicola Lagioia, «Lucy» «Un libro sugli amori che non si arrendono alla memoria. Un libro di McCarthy, e di Cormac, le due personalità narrative dell'autore che sfiatano una prosa calcificata nella terra e una ricerca di amore sospesa». Marco Missiroli, «la Lettura - Corriere della Sera»

L’apocalypse a eu lieu. Le monde est dévasté, couvert de cendres. Un père et son fils errent sur une route, poussant un caddie rempli d’objets hétéroclites et de vieilles couvertures. Ils sont sur leurs gardes car le danger peut surgir à tout moment. Ils affrontent la pluie, la neige, le froid. Et ce qui reste d’une humanité retournée à la barbarie. Cormac McCarthy raconte leur odyssée dans ce récit dépouillé à l’extrême. Prix Pulitzer 2007, La Route s’est vendu à plus de deux millions d’exemplaires aux États-Unis. « Héritier de la Bible et de Shakespeare, de Hawthorne et de Faulkner, archaïque, lyrique et visionnaire, sensible à la beauté du monde, McCarthy est hanté par la violence des hommes et la question du Mal. » Nathalie Crom, Télérama Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par François Hirsch.

"En udsøgt litterær fornøjelse og en skræmmende oplevelse (...) Cormac McCarthy-begyndere kan og bør starte hér - hvis ellers de er indstillet på at få ødelagt deres nattesøvn med et mesterligt amerikansk mareridt." - Tonny Worm, Information En far og hans tiårige søn vandrer alene gennem et udbrændt Amerika. Intet rører sig, bortset fra asken i vinden. Det er så koldt, at sten flækker, og når sneen falder, er den grå. Deres mål er kysten, selv om de ikke aner, hvad der venter dem - om noget overhovedet. De har intet med sig, kun en pistol til at forsvare sig mod lovløse bander, det tøj, de har på, en indkøbsvogn med dåsemad - og hinanden. VEJEN er en intens historie om en nådesløs rejse. Den fremmaner en fremtid uden håb, hvor en far og hans søn udholder mareridtet i kraft af deres kærlighed til hinanden.

''His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power'' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series ''All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece'' - Financial Times 1949. At sixteen years-old, John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. A grand love story, Cormac McCarthy''s novel is about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival. ''One of the greatest American novels of this or any time'' - Guardian ''[A] totalizing reality, where meditation and resistance are two components of one reality, a destiny of wandering the borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico in the postwar twentieth century'' - Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room Adapted into a film starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz. All the Pretty Horses is followed in the Border Trilogy by The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ''McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute'' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren ''[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence'' - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

Ein wort- und bildmächtiger Western. Karg und poetisch zugleich. John Grady Cole arbeitet auf einer Ranch in der Nähe von El Paso. In den Nachtbars und Bordellen hinter der mexikanischen Grenze findet er die Frau seines Lebens: Magdalena, eine schöne Hure, zart und zerbrechlich. Doch sie gehört Eduardo, dem philosophierenden Zuhälter und Messerhelden. Und Magdalena ist um keinen Preis verkäuflich, es sei denn, um den des Todes. Der abschließende Band der Border-Trilogie.

Um marco da literatura norte-americana, Meridiano de sangue é um épico inesquecível e brutal sobre o Oeste americano — um lugar violento e imprevisível, onde real e imaginário se fundem em uma história com dimensões apocalípticas. Meridiano de sangue é um romance épico. Nele, McCarthy reinventa a mitologia do Oeste americano para criar uma obra ao mesmo tempo grandiosa e arrebatadora sobre uma terra sem lei, em que o absurdo e a alucinação se sobrepõem à realidade. Desde as primeiras páginas, o leitor acompanha um rapaz sem nome e sem família, abandonado à própria sorte num mundo brutal em que, para sobreviver, precisa ser tão ou mais violento que seus inimigos. Recrutado por uma companhia de mercenários a serviço de governantes locais, atravessa regiões desérticas entre o México e o Texas com a missão de matar o maior número possível de índios e trazer de volta seus escalpos. McCarthy parte de fatos reais para compor uma obra que transcende a ficção histórica. Conduzidos por John Joel Glanton e o juiz Holden, homens que julgam já terem visto todos os horrores possíveis, irão aos poucos se aprofundar no verdadeiro inferno. "Um clássico romance americano sobre a regeneração por meio da violência [...]. McCarthy só pode ser comparado aos nossos maiores escritores." — Michael Herr "McCarthy é um autor para ser lido, admirado e, com toda a honestidade, invejado." — Ralph Ellison "Nenhum outro romancista americano vivo, nem mesmo Pynchon, nos deu um livro tão forte e memorável como Meridiano de sangue." — Harold Bloom

Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy''s reputation as one of the twentieth century''s greatest writers. ‘[A] brilliant, uncompromising work of fiction – imagine if the authors of the King James Bible, their hands guided by Satan, wrote a western’ – The Times Through the hostile landscape of the Texas–Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. A group known as the Glanton gang hunt Indigenous Americans, collecting scalps as their bloody trophies. At the centre of this violence stands Judge Holden: a massive, hairless man, mysterious if not supernatural, erudite and cold-blooded. He is singularly extreme in his sadistic violence. But the apparent chaos is not without order – the Glanton gang, too, are stalked as prey. Read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form, it is a powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful novel – and one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century. ‘In Blood Meridian, McCarthy reaches the peak of his style: spare and ornate at once, repetitious but endlessly readable’ – Guardian Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren ''His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power'' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series ''[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence'' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Cormac McCarthya kauneimmillaan. John Grady on vasta kuudentoista kun kotitila Texasissa myydään ja hän lähtee kaverinsa Rawlinsin kanssa ratsain kohti Meksikoa etsimään uutta elämää. Nuoret miehet kohtaavat matkallaan ihmisen koko raakuuden ja jalouden ja oppivat että liian hyvä hevonen on vaaraksi - mutta ei niin suureksi kuin rakkaus. McCarthyn Rajatrilogian ensimmäisessä osassa tarina kaartuu jylhästi, ja Kaijamari Sivillin suomennos hehkuu samoissa väreissä. Kaikki kauniit hevoset sai Yhdysvaltain National Book Award ja National Book Critics Circle Award -palkinnot ja nosti tekijänsä maailmanmaineeseen. Cormac McCarthy (s. 1933) lukeutuu Yhdysvaltain merkittävimpiin nykykirjailijoihin. Kuudes romaani Kaikki kauniit hevoset (1992) toi hänelle kansainvälistä huomiota, jonka sinetöi Pulitzer-palkinto romaanista Tie vuonna 2007. McCarthy tunnetaan erityisesti etelän rajaseutujen karunkauniin maiseman ja väkivallan leimaaman elämän runollisena kuvaajana.

The first screenplay by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road tells the saga of rival families in post-Civil War South Carolina. Set in Graniteville, South Carolina, The Gardener''s Son is a tale of privilege and hardship, animosity and vengeance. The McEvoys, a poor family beset by misfortune, must work in the cotton mill owned by the Greggs. But when Robert McEvoy loses his leg in an accident—rumored to have been caused by his nemesis, James Gregg—the bitter young man deserts his job and family. Two years later, Robert returns. His mother is dying, and his father, the mill''s gardener, is confined indoors working the factory line. These intertwined events stoke the slow burning rage McEvoy has long carried, a fury that erupts in a terrible act of violence that ultimately consumes the Gregg family and his own. Made into an acclaimed film broadcast on PBS in 1976, The Gardener''s Son received two Emmy Award nominations and was screened at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals.

El guardián del vergel , la primera novela de Cormac McCarthy, autor de La carretera por la que ganó en 2007 el premio Pulitzer, es ya un clásico de la literatura estadounidense. Situada en una pequeña y remota comunidad rural de Tennessee en el período de entreguerras, nos habla de la vida de John Wesley Rattner, un muchacho, y de Marion Sylder, un vagabundo fuera de la ley que ha matado al padre del chico, aunque ninguno de los dos lo sabe. Ambos, junto a Ather, el tío de Rattner, protagonizarán un drama que parece nacer de las entrañas de la tierra. Reseña: «Una compleja y evocativa reflexión sobre la futilidad de la vida.» Harper's

*Premio Pulitzer 2007* Una demoledora fábula sobre el futuro del ser humano, destinada a convertirse en la obra maestra del autor. La carretera, novela galardonada con el premio Pulitzer 2007 y best seller literario del año en Estados Unidos, transcurre en la inmensidad del territorio norteamericano, un paisaje literalmente quemado por lo que parece haber sido un reciente holocausto nuclear. En un mundo apocalíptico donde llueve ceniza, un hombre y un chico cruzan a pie el territorio norteamericano en dirección al sur. El hambre es mucho más que una preocupación diaria: es la medida de todas las cosas, y las bandas de caníbales asolan el país convertido en un yermo donde solo la barbarie ha echado raíces. El amor de un padre por su hijo es, sin embargo, la única luz de una tierra que ha perdido a sus dioses. Quizá el fuego de la civilización no se haya apagado para siempre. La crítica ha dicho... « La carretera añade matices sutiles a la visión posapocalíptica que tiene McCarthy de la existencia humana. [...] en la radiografía que hace McCarthy del alma humana aquí hay un punto de fuga que se abre hacia la posibilidad del bien.» Eduardo Lago, Babelia «Javier Marías, preguntado por si él era candidato al Nobel, respondió que si alguien merecía ese galardón era Cormac McCarthy.» Enrique Murillo, El País «Junto a Salinger y Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy es el otro eremita de la narrativa norteamericana. No se deja ver, apenas fotografiar, nadie saber ahora mismo por dónde pisa. De los tres autores de culto, para mí es el más grande.» Robert Saladrigas, La Vanguardia «Esta novela está llamada a ser una de las grandes obras de la literatura universal.» Diego Gándara, La Razón

*Premio Pulitzer 2007 por La carretera* En la frontera es la segunda parte de la «Trilogía de la Frontera». Billy y Boyd, dos adolecentes de origen campesino, irán descubriendo las duras reglas del mundo de los adultos al tiempo que encuentran en la naturaleza el sentido heroico de sus vidas. Desde una extraña relación de afecto y complicidad con una loba acosada por los tramperos hasta el asesinato de sus padres a manos de unos cuarteros, Bily aprenderá que la belleza y la rapiña moral representan los límites inseparables de una misma aventura vital. Reseña: «Suspense el alma del lector y, al mismo tiempo, lo arrebata en su belleza. » El País

*Premio Pulitzer 2007 por La carretera* Una magnética historia de perdedores, narcotraficantes y sueños rotos, obra del genial autor de la Trilogía de la frontera. El cazador y veterano de Vietnam Llewelyn Moss descubre por casualidad la sangrienta escena de una carnicería entre narcos en algún lugar de la frontera entre Texas y México. Entre los cuerpos y los paquetes de heroína, descubre también algo más de dos millones de dólares. A partir de este momento comienza la violenta carrera de Moss por escapar de los que quieren darle caza: Wells, ex agente de las Fuerzas Especiales contratado por un poderoso cartel; Anton Chigurh, una implacable máquina de matar, para quien recuperar el dinero de sus jefes es apenas la excusa para descargar una y otra vez su arma y poner en práctica su máxima: no dejar nunca testigos, y un sheriff veterano de la segunda guerra mundial que añora los viejos buenos tiempos y esconde un doloroso secreto que lo mantiene vivo. El resultado es una novela que es «mucho más que un thriller corriente» ( Time Magazine) que «te dejará jadeando y atemorizado» Sam Shepard). La crítica ha dicho... «La mezcla de narrativa lírica, diálogo corto y escenas de acción consigue que en No es país para viejos resuenen ecos de Dostoievski, Hemingway y Faulkner.» Alison Block, Booklist «No hay manera de soltar el libro. Es duro, duro e impactante.» El País

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.

Una impresionante e imaginativa fábula moral acerca de la naturaleza de la violencia y la justicia. Una novela épica sobre la violencia y la depravación que acompañaron a la expansión de América hacia el oeste, Meridiano de sangre subvierte espléndidamente las convenciones de la novela occidental y la mitología del “salvaje oeste”. Basada en acontecimientos históricos ocurridos en la frontera de Texas y México alrededor de 1850, traza las fortunas del Chico, un muchacho de Tennessee, que tropieza con el horrible mundo del grupo de Glanton, y su líder espiritual, el llamado juez Holden: un hombre calvo, albino, sin barba, sin pestañas, ni cejas; un hombre violento y cruel que apenas duerme y afirma que jamás morirá.

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.

Korean edition of "The Road" that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize by Cormac McCarthy who has written several bestselling books including 'No Country for Old Men'. This eloquent and brilliant novel describes the post-apocalyptic condition after a nuclear holocaust as a father and his son journey toward the sea for the winter... Translated by Jeong Yeong Mok. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph.

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity

From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road—a startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men–though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life. Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time. Look for Cormac McCarthy''s new novel, The Passenger, coming October ''22.

THE STORY: On a subway platform in New York City, an ex-con from the South saves the life of an intellectual atheist who wasn''t looking for salvation. Now, the reformed murderer-turned-savior ventures to offer salvation of another kind, bringing the faile

Una de las voces de la narrativa norteamericana que, con esta novela, cierra la trilogía de la frontera. El escenario: los años cincuenta, en tierra fronterizas entre EE. UU y México. Allí, un grupo de personajes desarraigados, protagonistas de las dos primeras entregas viven el desencuentro con ellos mismos y con la nueva época que se avecina

John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.

The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it. The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute. When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees--against his better judgment--to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp. The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy