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Sobre el libro Bournville de Jonathan Coe publicado por Penguin Books S.A al 2023:
In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it´s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary will go on to live through the Coronation and the World Cup final, royal weddings and royal funerals, Brexit and Covid-19. She´ll have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Parts of the chocolate factory will be transformed into a theme park, as modern life and the city crowd in on their peaceful enclave. As we travel through seventy-five years of social change, from James Bond to Princess Diana, and from wartime nostalgia to the World Wide Web, one pressing question starts to emerge: will these changing times bring Mary´s family - and their country - closer together, or leave them more adrift and divided than ever before?
Sobre Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe (Birmingham, 1961) va estudiar en les universitats de Cambridge i Warwick, i ha estat col·laborador de London Review of Books i The Times Literary Supplement. En Anagrama ha publicat cinc novel·la, que ho han consagrat com un dels millors escriptors de la seva generació, començant per Quin repartiment!, que va ser guardonada amb el Premi The Mail on Sunday/John Lewellyn Rhys i, a França, amb el Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger. La seva novel·la posterior, La casa del somni, va...
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