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English
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2017, 2015
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"Jonathan Coe finally provides a sequel to The Winshaw Legacy, the 1995 novel that introduced American readers to one of Britain's most exciting new writers -- an acerbic, hilariously dark, and unflinching portrait of modern society. In Number 11, Coe has filled his intricate plot with a truly Dickensian cast of characters. The novel opens in the early aughts with two ten-year-old girls, Alison and Rachel, and their frightening encounter with the "Mad Bird Woman," a mysterious figure who lives down the road. As the narrative progresses through time, the novel broadens in scope toward other people who are somehow connected to the two girls. We follow the trials and tribulations of Alison's mother, a has-been singer, as she competes on TV's reality hit I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! Rachel's university mentor confronts her late husband's disastrously obsessive search for an untraceable German film he saw as a child. A young police constable investigates the seemingly accidental
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Language 
Spanish
Books
2017
Summary 
En el centro de esta historia está la amistad de Rachel y Alison, que recorre con altibajos sus vidas desde la infancia. Y al fondo una figura real, David Kelly, inspector de armamento de Naciones Unidas en Irak, envuelto en el escándalo de la filtración de datos que ponían en entredicho a Tony Blair, y cuya muerte -oficialmente un suicidio, aunque siempre hubo sospechas de otra cosa- supuso el fin de la inocencia para una generación. Las vidas de Rachel y Alison se cruzan con las de una serie de personajes estrafalarios e inolvidables: una cantante que vivió tiempos mejores y trata de recuperar su popularidad en un reality show en la selva australiana; un profesor obsesionado con una elusiva película que vio de niño llamada El jardín de cristal; un joven oficial de policía empeñado en aplicar criterios sociopolíticos en sus investigaciones mientras trata de conquistar a una casta profesora católica; un supermillonario que contrata a una tutora para que enseñe a su hijo a comportarse c
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Russian
Original Title 
Номер 11 : безумие, заметки наблюдателя / Джонатан Коу ; перевод с английского Елены Полецкой.
Books
2016
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