Angelmaker (Vintage Contemporaries) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

"A head-spinning cliffhanger that reads a bit like Harry Potter for grownups. . . . It would be a shame if no movie were made from this glorious piece of kaleidoscope-fiction." --The Wall Street Journal

"Brilliant, wholly original, and a major-league hoot." --The Seattle Times

"Nick Harkaway has created a brand new genre: Existential pulp . . . Redolent of comic books and action serials, but there are also serious questions about the nature of existence and personhood being asked. . . . So over the top, it redefines where the top is." --io9

"A big, gleefully absurd, huggable bear of a novel. . . . Harkaway's prose is playful and beguiling, with a keen satiric edge." --Slate

"A story of technology and morality. It's a wonderfully strange, rich piece of work-- extremely entertaining and exciting--and has a wonderfully comic aspect to it as well." --William Gibson

"A magnificent, literary, post-pulp triumph. . . . Angelmaker is an entertaining tour-de-force that demands to be adored." --The Independent (London)

"It's hard to put a finger on exactly why Angelmaker is one of the year's best books. Know this, though: it is." --Tor.com

"Angelmaker strenuously avoids falling into any usual category of fiction. Part science fiction, part philosophical exploration, part steampunk fantasy and part lovingly realistic description of contemporary London, it pays tribute to Charles Dickens in its quirky names and frequent coincidences, and to pulp fiction in its semi-clad damsels and grisly scenes of torture. It is also mordantly funny." --The Columbus Dispatch

"[Harkaway] manages to write surrealist adventure novels that feel both urgent and relevant. His novels are fun to read without seeming particularly frivolous, and beneath all the derring-do and shenanigans, there's a low thrum of anxiety: everything and everyone you love could disappear at any moment. . . . Angelmaker is a truly impressive achievement." --The Millions

"A lot of books are fun to read for the plot; a smaller percentage display this artful mastery of the language. And precious few manage to do both. Angelmaker falls into that last category." --Wired.com

"An ambitious, crowded, restless caper, cleverly told. . . . A solid work of modern fantasy fiction." --The Observer (London)

"Marvelously old-fashioned in the best sense of that word. It's a sprawling, irreverent, blockbuster of a novel, an apocalyptic roller coaster of a book."--Open Letters Monthly

"A genuine tale of fantastika. . . . And the truth of what we have done, and where we live now, shines through." --Strange Horizons

"A riotous, wildly inventive mish-mash of genres and seemingly contradictory ideas [Angelmaker] manages the not inconsiderable trick of being both immensely entertaining and curiously heartfelt." --The Sydney Morning Herald

"A joyful display of reckless, delightful invention, on a par with the rocket-powered novels of Neal Stephenson, if in rather more ironically diffident English form. Ideas come zinging in from all corners, and do so with linguistic verve and tremendous humour. . . . What a splendid ride." --The Guardian (London)

"An intricate and brilliant piece of escapism. . . . Gleefully nostalgic and firmly modern, hand-on-heart and tongue-in-cheek, this is as far as it could be from the wearied tropes that dominate so much of fantasy and SF." --Daily Telegraph (London)

"[The Gone-Away World] was a work of such glorious, exhaustive excess a part of me wondered if Harkaway would actually write again. I am profoundly glad that he has: Angelmaker is every bit as entertaining and imaginative. . . . Effervescent and witty. . . . Harkaway manages the ideal blend of paying homage to a very British sense of decency and fair play, while at the same time idolising the rule-breakers." -- Stuart Kelly, Scotsman on Sunday

"Endlessly inventive. . . . An absurdist sendup of pulp story tropes and end-of-the-world scenarios." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Harkaway's celebrated debut, The Gone-Away World . . . was really just a warm up act--a prodigiously talented novelist stretching muscles that few other writers even possess--for this tour de force of Dickensian bravura and genre-bending splendor. . . . This is a marvelous book, both sublimely intricate and compulsively readable." --Booklist (starred review)

"Harkaway keeps us guessing, traveling the edges between fantasy, sci-fi, the detective novel, pomo fiction and a good old-fashioned comedy of the sort that Jerome K. Jerome might have written had he had a ticking thingy instead of a boat as his prop. . . . His tale stands comparison to Haruki Murakami's 1Q84." --Kirkus (starred review)

From the acclaimed author of "The Gone-Away World" - here comes a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who are forced to team up to save the world. All Joe Spork wants is a quiet life. He repairs clockwork and lives above his shop in a wet, unknown bit of London. The bills don't always get paid and he's single and has no prospects of improving his lot, but at least he's not trying to compete with the reputation of Mathew "Tommy Gun" Spork, his infamous criminal dad. Edie Banister lives quietly and wishes she didn't. She's nearly ninety and remembers when she wasn't. She's a former superspy and now she's...well...old. Worse yet, the things she fought to save don't seem to exist anymore, and she's beginning to wonder if they ever did. When Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. The client? Unknown. And the device? It's a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie's old arch-nemesis. With Joe's once-quiet world now populated with mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realises that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she gave up years ago, and pick up his father's old gun.... NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.