El arte de mirar al cielo (All Our Shimmering Skies): A Novel

Del autor superventas internacional y aclamado por la crítica de El chico que se comió el universo, una fascinante e inspiradora novela de aventuras y amistades insólitas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Australia. DARWIN, AUSTRALIA, 1942 Mientras las bombas japonesas caen sobre su ciudad natal, Molly Hook, la hija del sepulturero, que acaba de quedarse huérfana, mira al cielo y corre para salvar su vida. En una bolsa de lona lleva una piedra con forma de corazón y un mapa que la guiará hasta Longcoat Bob, el hechicero de la Australia profunda que ella cree que ha lanzado una maldición sobre su familia. Junto a ella, los compañeros de viaje más insólitos: Greta, una actriz de lengua afilada, y Yukio, un piloto de combate japonés desertor. Con mensajes desde el cielo para guiarlos hasta el tesoro, pero también con enemigos siguiéndolos de cerca, el trío se encontrará con la belleza y la vastedad del Territorio del Norte y sobrevivirá de maneras que nunca creyeron posibles. Una historia sobre los regalos que caen del cielo, las maldiciones que desenterramos y los secretos que enterramos en nuestro interior, la novela de imaginación deslumbrante de Trent Dalton es una odisea llena de amor verdadero y graves peligros, de oscuridad y luz, de huesos y cielos azules. Es una carta de amor a Australia y una oda al arte de mirar al cielo, un relato optimista y mágico que rebosa de calidez, humor y asombro. |

“The follow-up to Boy Swallows Universe we could have never imagined, but the one Dalton was destined to gift us.It’s a new tale of the Australian Gothic crossed with a psychotropic cowboy movie.It’s a story of heroes and villains, foxes and water buffalo, fighter planes and birds of prey, real magic and real love, epitaphs and aphorisms, lost treasure and lost life.It’s a love letter to the nation. It’s your favorite childhood adventure story dictated by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare, with a score by Franz Liszt. It’s dead serious.It’s completely ridiculous.It’s all of these things and more.” - Booktopia (Australia)

PRAISE FOR BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE: "Extraordinary and beautiful storytelling." - The Guardian

"The best book I read this decade." - Sharon Van Etten in Rolling Stone

“Boy Swallows Universe hypnotizes you with wonder, and then hammers you with heartbreak. . . . Eli’s remarkably poetic voice and his astonishingly open heart take the day. They enable him to carve out the best of what’s possible from the worst of what is, which is the miracle that makes this novel marvelous.” - Washington Post

“A splashy, profane, and witty debut.” - USA Today

“An electric novel. . . . a lively, funny affirmation of the human instinct for survival.” - The Times (London)

“This thrilling novel takes you along for the ride.” - New York Times Book Review

“A work of shimmering originality and energy, with extraordinary characters and a clever, thrilling plot. . . . unputdownable.” - Sydney Morning Herald

“Dalton is an author of 19th-century expansiveness, one with a sense that intelligence, talent for characterization and sheer narrative brio can still be the whole cloth of the writer’s ambition. . . . it is storytelling manna, fallen straight from the Territorian skies.” - The Australian

“Achingly beautiful and poetic in its melancholy, All Our Shimmering Skies is a majestic and riveting tale of curses and the true meaning of treasure.” - Booklist (starred review)

“A spellbinding saga of survival and transformation in WWII Australia. . . . This is a wonder.”  - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Magical. . . . goodness, hope, and a bit of magic are pitted against gritty realities. The result is unquestionably appealing.” - Library Journal