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by Christopher Moore

Overview

LA INFANCIA DEL HIJO DE DIOS CONTADA POR SU MEJOR AMIGO,
POR EL AUTOR DE 'EL ÁNGEL MÁS TONTO DEL MUNDO' Christopher Moore es autor de once novelas, incluidos los bestsellers internacionales El ángel más tonto del mundo, Chúpate esa! y Un trabajo muy sucio, y ha sido comparado con autores de la talla de Mark Haddon, Jonathan Swift, Kurt Vonnegut o Terry Pratchett. El nacimiento de Jesús está bien documentado, al igual que, tras su trigésimo cumpleaños, sus gloriosas enseñanzas, sus actos y su divino sacrificio. Pero nadie conoce la adolescencia del Hijo de Dios, los años perdidos; nadie excepto Colleja. Desde el día en que se encontró con Joshua de Nazareth, un chaval de seis años, resucitando lagartijas en la plaza del pueblo, Levi bar Alphaeus, llamado «Colleja», tuvo el honor de ser el mejor amigo del Mesías. Por eso, el ángel Raziel lo ha resucitado y lo ha llevado a América para escribir un nuevo Evangelio, uno que cuente la historia real y hasta ahora desconocida.

«El humor puede salvar vidas, y los libros de Moore están llenos de motivos para soltar unas cuantas carcajadas»
-Juan Vila, El País, On

«Una historia a medio camino entre el Nuevo Testamento, un libro de historia romana, una guía de la religión occidental y 'La vida de Brian', de los Monty Python»
-CNN Online

«Aunque muchos encontrarán algo que les resulte ofensivo en esta novela, que se burla de toda tradición religiosa importante que existiese en el siglo primero, les será imposible no reírse»
-Booklist

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788490181751
Publisher:	La Factoría de Ideas
Publication date:	11/23/2012
Sold by:	La Factoria de Ideas
Format:	eBook
File size:	676 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

A 100-year-old ex-seminarian and a demon set off together on a psychotic road trip...

Christ's wisecracking childhood pal is brought back from the dead to chronicle the Messiah's "missing years"...

A mild-mannered thrift shop owner takes a job harvesting souls for the Grim Reaper...

Whence come these wonderfully weird scenarios? From the fertile imagination of Christopher Moore, a cheerfully demented writer whose absurdist fiction has earned him comparisons to master satirists like Kurt Vonnegut, Terry Pratchett, and Douglas Adams.

Ever since his ingenious debut, 1992's Practical Demonkeeping, Moore has attracted an avid cult following. But, over the years, as his stories have become more multi-dimensional and his characters more morally complex, his fan base has expanded to include legions of enthusiastic general readers and appreciative critics.

Asked where his colorful characters come from, Moore points to his checkered job resume. Before becoming a writer, he worked at various times as a grocery clerk, an insurance broker, a waiter, a roofer, a photographer, and a DJ -- experiences he has mined for a veritable rogue's gallery of unforgettable fictional creations. Moreover, to the delight of hardcore fans, characters from one novel often resurface in another. For example, the lovesick teen vampires introduced in 1995's Bloodsucking Fiends are revived (literally) for the 2007 sequel You Suck -- which also incorporates plot points from 2006's A Dirty Job.

For a writer of satirical fantasy, Moore is a surprisingly scrupulous researcher. In pursuit of realistic details to ground his fiction, he has been known to immerse himself in marine biology, death rituals, Biblical scholarship, and Goth culture. He has been dubbed "the thinking man's Dave Barry" by none other than The Onion, a publication with a particular appreciation of smart humor.

As for story ideas, Moore elaborates on his website: "Usually [they come] from something I read. It could be a single sentence in a magazine article that kicks off a whole book. Ideas are cheap and easy. Telling a good story once you get an idea is hard." Perhaps. But, to judge from his continued presence on the bestseller lists, Chris Moore appears to have mastered the art.

Hometown:

Hawaii and San Francisco, California

Date of Birth:

August 5, 1958

Place of Birth:

Toledo, Ohio

Website:

http://www.chrismoore.com