La casa de hojas

by Mark Z. Danielewski

Overview

Mark Z. Danielewski’s masterpiece, La casa de hojas, consists of two parallel stories. One is of Johnny Truant and his frenetic existence in Los Angeles at the beginning of the 1990s. The second begins when Truant finds a manuscript in the house of an old man who has just died. This manuscript tells the story of a married couple who move to a house in the country. This upper-middle-class North American family soon makes a terrifying discovery: their new house is bigger on the inside than on the outside. This finding unleashes a series of events in which family unity and harmony are brought under the spell of this nightmare architecture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788492837465
Publisher:	Ediciones Alpha Decay, S. A.
Publication date:	09/01/2014
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.30(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Mark Z. Danielewski is the author of The Fifty Year Sword, Only Revolutions, and Whalestoe Letters. He lives in Los Angeles.

Hometown:

Los Angeles, California

Date of Birth:

March 5, 1966

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., Yale University, 1988; M.F.A., University of Southern California, 1993

Website:

http://www.onlyrevolutions.com

Editorial Reviews

This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore, put down, or persuasively conclude reading. In fact, when you purchase your copy you may reach a certain page and find me there, reduced in size like Vincent Price in The Fly, still trapped in the web of its malicious, beautiful pages."  —Jonathan Lethem, author, Motherless Brooklyn, on the English-language edition

“A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent: it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Pynchon and Ballard and Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Mark Danielewski’s feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter, awe."  —Brett Easton Ellis, author, Bright Lights, Big City, on the English-language edition

"A surreal palimpsest of terror and erudition, surely destined for cult status."  —Publishers Weekly, on the English-language edition

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