Reseña del libro "Vision Binocular"
Los cuentos de Pearlman son una prodigiosa combinacion de sutileza, elegancia, ironia y fascinante capacidad de exploracion de los sentimientos y conflictos humanos. Su hondura psicologica y riqueza de matices los convierte en inagotables. En el prologo, Ann Patchett, que la compara con Alice Munro y John Updike, dice: «Tienes entre manos, lector, una joya, un libro que podrias llevarte a una isla desierta sabiendo que, cada vez que llegases a la ultima pagina, podrias volver a empezar.» El repertorio de situaciones es muy variado: la nina que espia a sus vecinos con unos binoculares; la exiliada polaca que vive en Centroamerica, de donde debera huir por segunda vez; la doctora jubilada que se confronta con la muerte en un solitario paraje natural; el matrimonio judio superviviente del Holocausto que, instalado en Nueva York, recupera el mundo perdido a traves de un abrigo. / In this sumptuous offering, one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction aficionados. Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections, these twenty-one vintage selected stories and thirteen scintillating new ones take us around the world, from Jerusalem to Central America, from tsarist Russia to London during the Blitz, from central Europe to Manhattan, and from the Maine coast to Godolphin, Massachusetts, a fictional suburb of Boston. These charged locales, and the lives of the endlessly varied characters within them, are evoked with a tenderness and incisiveness found in only our most observant seers. No matter the situation in which her characters find themselves -- an unforeseen love affair between adolescent cousins, a lifetime of memories unearthed by an elderly couple's decision to shoplift, the deathbed secret of a young girl's forbidden forest tryst with the tsar, the danger that befalls a wealthy couple's child in a European inn of misfits -- Edith Pearlman conveys their experience with wit and aplomb, with relentless but clear-eyed optimism, and with a supple prose that reminds us, sentence by sentence, page by page, of the gifts our greatest verbal innovators can bestow.
