El paciente impaciente

La storia di un cittadino smarrito nei labirinti del capitale. Un thriller ambientato nel mondo delle banche, che racconta la sconcertante fragilità del sistema finanziario. «Nei romanzi di Suter sempre prevalgono l’ironia, il fascino, una indiscutibile eleganza. Probabilmente uno dei migliori autori contemporanei» (Le Nouvel Observateur).

A diez años de su publicación se reedita la célebre ucronía del golpe militar de 1973 Estalla el golpe militar y, entre otras figuras políticas y militares de la época, Augusto Pinochet decide defender el gobierno de Salvador Allende. La oposición fracasa y, para fortalecer las comunicaciones y los sistemas de vigilancia, surge el innovador proyecto Synco: una red cibernética que dice optimizar el manejo del Estado y la economía chilena. El resultado, aparentemente, es un esquema socialista modelo en cuanto a producción y reivindicación cultural; sin embargo, su funcionamiento...

In a Berkeley lab, Bruce Banner works intensely day and night. A bright scientist with repressed emotions and few social skills, Bruce and his colleague, the sharp and beautiful Betty Ross, experiment with the body's ability to repair itself and fight disease. But their research draws unwanted attention. For the power of regeneration catches the eye of the military, which sees its potential on the battlefields of the future. But when Bruce is exposed to radiation in an accident that should have killed him, a ferocious truth about his past begins to emerge-along with something else, something...

A dry and bitter story (vital and optimistic at the same time) narrates the unimaginable life of B?, a "writer" born in Auschwitz who was baptized with the letter B and a series of numbers tattooed on his thigh. B? commits suicide shortly after the fall of Communism in Hungary, in 1990, and his editor friend Keser?, tries to narrate his life while he searches for B?'s unpublished novel. In 150 pages Kert?sz describes the torture of writing about horror and, defends the power of love, literature and memories to overcome the Auschwitz experience.