Tim Gautreaux

After the devastation in France just as World War I, Sam Simoneaux went back to New Orleans eager for a normal life. But when a little girl disappears from a department store on his shift, he loses his job and soon joins her parents working on a steamboat plying the Mississippi. Sam comes to suspect that on the downriver journey someone had seen this magical child and arranged to steal her away, and this quest leads him not only into this raucous...

Returning from the Great War a changed man, Byron Aldirdge drifts away from his privileged and charmed life to take a job as a constable in a remote Louisiana sawmill, while his younger brother, taking over management of the mill, struggles to understand him, in an atmospheric novel of the family, justice and obligation.

Antes de la Gran Guerra, Byron Aldridge llevaba una vida apacible en Pensilvania como heredero de un imperio maderero. Para su hermano pequeño Randolph, Byron ejercía de guía y de ídolo. Pero tras la guerra, el carismático Byron regresa de Francia convertido en un hombre diferente. Atormentado, huye de la familia y, después de pasar por diversos lugares y oficios, se refugia en un pequeño aserradero de la remota Luisiana, en donde trabajará...

Tim Gautreaux vuelve a sorprendernos con esta nueva serie de relatos publicados originalmente en Atlantic Magazine y recopilados más tarde en el libro Welding with children que da título al primer relato. Todo lo que vale son pequeñas piezas maestras llenas de humor y de ternura que narran las vidas anónimas de los entrañables personajes que componen el tejido social y emocional del entorno rural de Luisiana.

"A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art." After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana,...