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    El hundimiento del muelle

    By Mark Haddon

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    El autor de El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche vuelve con su mejor narrativa.

    Los nueve relatos de esta lírica y poderosísima colección se adentran en diversos territorios (la aventura clásica, la ciencia ficción, el cuento alegórico o el realismo despiadado), pero Haddon despliega en todos ellos su inigualable destreza estilística y esa empatía que ha hechizado a los lectores de sus novelas. El resultado final es una fascinante reflexión sobre la condición humana, la soledad que nos atrapa y los vínculos que, pese a todo, siguen uniendo a los seres humanos. Quienes gozaron con El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche hallarán aquí al mejor Haddon.

    "Una pequeña y perfectamente controlada obra maestra."
    Lionel Shriver
    "Mark Haddon es un maestro capturando detalles. El relato que da título al libro es un auténtico tour de force y los otros ocho son un ejemplo perfecto de cómo se construye un cuento."
    Kirkus Reviews
    "Escribe con la habilidad de Julian Barnes o, incluso, de Truman Capote."
    The Times
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherMALPASO
    Release dateMar 19, 2018
    ISBN9788417081690
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    El hundimiento del muelle
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    Mark Haddon

    Mark Haddon has written a number of successful picture books with HarperCollins, including Sea of Tranquility, illustrated by Christian Birmingham, and is best known for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two sons.

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    • 4/5
      Dark stories, mostly, told with beautiful language. A huge variety of plots and locales and styles, hard to believe they’re all from the same writer.
    • 4/5
      It took me a very long time to finish this collection because I didn't want it to be over, a rare occurrence. Each story was like a little present to be unwrapped and astonished by and mull over later; I understand perfectly why some of these tales were prize-winners. This book has made me stop hating short stories, which I had really become antagonistic toward lately.

      A big fat thank you to the Penguin Random House who sent me this ARC which I savoured thoroughly.
    • 4/5
      The Pier Falls is a collection of short stories by author Mark Haddon. They are very well written, maybe even brilliant - Haddon can build amazing mind pictures with his words… And yet…and yet…despite the beauty of these stories, or perhaps because of it, this is one of the hardest reviews I’ve written because I’m not sure who I would recommend this book to. At the very least, any recommendation I could give would come with a strong trigger warning about the emotional effects these stories will likely have because, seriously, they are all consistently and unremittingly dark. Death, despair, and sorrow run through every story. Perhaps, my feelings about these stories can best be summed up by this quote from one of the stories, The Woodpecker and the Wolf:There is something wrong with all this but she cannot put her finger on what it might beSo, in the end, I will only say if you love short stories with beautiful writing, lots of tension, and the kind imagery that stays with you long after for better or worse, this is definitely worth the read but be prepared for the emotional impact. You’ve been warned.
    • 5/5
      Mark Haddon demonstrates extremely strong writing in this volume. He has a style that's slightly experimental and dances on the thin edge between reality and mythology. If you're interested in literary writing, this would be a great book to study because each piece is well-constructed and manages to engage the reader with unusual and intriguing characters that the reader can still connect with (even the odd ones).While the stories may appear eclectic on the surface, some of the recurring themes include loneliness and relationships (of all kinds and between various types of people past, present, and future). If there's one theme that binds these stories together it's that it explores what it means to be human, something that good writing often does successfully.Note: I was given a free ARC by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Also note that I thought this book was outstanding enough to write an extensive review for publication. It was that good. If you enjoy literary writing, pick this one up!
    • 5/5
      Compelling characters in stories which trend to the dark or disturbing. Reminds me of Stephen King's short story collections. I appreciate that each tale has its own story arc; I dislike short stories which simply peter out or feel like snippets.
    • 5/5
      The Pier Falls, Mark Haddon, author; Clare Corbett, Daniel Weyman, narratorsIn nine eloquently written short stories, Haddon explores the themes of trust, panic, betrayal, abandonment, escaping, loneliness, fear, madness, coping and survival. He makes the ordinary, extraordinary, by turning it into something exotic, twisting and reshaping its edges so that our ideas, expectations and conclusions are totally unanticipated. These stories reach deeply into the minds of the characters to find their weaknesses and their strengths. They are not all likeable as he develops their character traits in minute detail. Their flaws and vulnerabilities are exploited. Haddon forces the readers to enter into the world of their own deepest fears as he creates mystery and tension and expertly draws them into the tales involving them emotionally. He forces them to watch the characters experience the extremes of adversity and then examines how they cope with, live with, and/or die, dealing with it. This is a difficult read, but it is one that will stay with you and keep you thinking and analyzing your own behavior and that of others, long after.The characters are betrayed, abandoned, abused and tortured. One character is morbidly obese. Another is dealing with the supernatural. A third is disturbed and on and on. We witness depravity, cruelty, phantoms and the supernatural. It will be frightening as the reader realizes that although these stories seem to stretch credibility, they also are very credible indeed. Parts of each story seem to be taken from real life, but then they are woven into tales that are darker and more hopeless than one could imagine. Shootings, amputations, murder, and suicide are all within the realm of possibility, but Haddon takes them a step farther. They are broadened into unimaginable circumstances as the characters face situations in which they are helpless to alter their fate. The ways in which Haddon spins the stories will completely seize the reader’s attention even as the reader wants to pull themselves away because sometimes the stories seem too hard to read. Fortunately, the author comes through with a light touch, at times, making sure you never quite get to the point where you give up. The readers and the characters are at the edge of a precipice, but the reader has the opportunity to step back. The tales never really reach a final conclusion; but rather they leave the reader wondering and thinking. Common threads and themes running through each tale as they go from one to another knit the stories together.Both narrators do a good job, but the male narrator is exceptional He has a beautiful sonorous voice, strong at times and tender at others. His narration gave each story the appropriate tone and amount of gravity it deserved. This is not an easy read or a read for everyone because it is dark and somber, but brilliant. Everyone’s worst nightmare is brought to life and examined in daylight and darkness. Be prepared, each story contains some kind of violent behavior, physical, mental or emotional, which will tax your brain.
    • 4/5
      Mark Haddon has said, “It seems to me that if you are writing a short story and it is not more entertaining than the stories in that morning’s newspaper or that evening’s TV news, then you need to throw it away and start again, or open a cycle repair shop." His vision is apparent in this collection of nine quite bizarre stories. The settings vary; the subjects are eclectic; and the plots are surprising. They have commonalities, however: all are unconventional, most characters are unlovable, and each story is unremittingly dark and lacking in any reverence for human life or even ordinary decency. These issues aside, the collection is remarkable entertaining.These stories did not work equally well for me. A rough order of their appeal from best to worst might be as follows:"The Gun" tells of two adolescent boys who steal a loaded gun and embark on an adventure that rapidly turns sour. There is a nexus where, with a few very minor changes, outcomes could have been very different and would have profoundly altered their lives forever. One seems to realize this, but the other is oblivious. In “The Weir,” Ian is despondent because his wife has left him and taken his son. He rescues Kelly from a suicide attempt by drowning in the Thames. They manage to develop a strange, but mutually depressive friendship. “…they will all go down into the dark eventually… the river will keep on flowing… and the buzzard will still be circling above the wasteland.”“Wodwo” is a novella that starts with a family Christmas that morphs into a bizarre story of a mythic wild man who intrudes to the party. He challenges the family to a game that ends with him being shot by the egotistical Gavin. The intruder warns that he will be returning on the following Christmas for another round of the game. Over the subsequent year, Gavin’s life changes dramatically from success to utter failure while he anticipates the second coming of the stranger.“The Woodpecker and the Wolf," tells of a team of astronauts stranded on Mars. Death by starvation and suicide seem to be their fate, but strangely, new life emerges. Clare Hogg wonders, “There is something wrong with all this, but she cannot put her finger on what.” “The Pier Falls” chronicles in excruciating detail the collapse of a seaside amusement pier from the failure of its first rivet to the ultimate collapse with the loss of 65 lives. Lives go from lighthearted enjoyment of a sunny afternoon to unbearable devastation leaving one with the thought that disasters often begin with convergences of fairly minor events. In "The Island," a Greek princess assists a captive warrior to escape while killing her deformed brother. He repays her foolishness by abandoning her on a deserted island where she is ill equipped for survival. She comes to realize that her privileged life “deprived her of the one skill that she needs now." “Bunny” is morbidly obese. He wastes his life immobilized while eating junk food, watching bad television, playing video games and building military dioramas. Unfortunately, Bunny finds Leah, a troubled woman who cares for him until something better comes along. Her solution is tragic, but almost seems to have been Bunny’s fate all along.“Breathe” is the story of Carol, the daughter who left home but returns to belatedly care for her widowed and depressed mother. Robyn, the sister who stayed put, looks on with disgust. The climax seems abrupt and too contrived to make for a very satisfying ending."The Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear" embark on a rescue mission to a jungle that is inhabited by a vicious and deadly creature. Although it has a “Heart of Darkness” flavor, it lacks all of the moral ambiguity of the Conrad tale. These stories are not for the faint of heart. Many people die in horrible ways. The themes are morbid. These are not fatal flaws, however, because the stories are generally well constructed and totally engaging. This collection is so dark that it may best read in small doses.
    • 5/5
      It's so cliche, but nonetheless, this collection of stories is one that examines what it means to be human. I have nothing against short stories, but I usually read novels or nonfiction books, so it takes a bit more discipline to actually finish a whole short story collection. This one, once I focused on finishing it, turned out to be quite good. It even has a science fiction story in the mix, though as with all of these stories the focus in the sci-fi story is on the internal human side, how it feels to be the people in the story. There is a fatalistic streak to these stories, too, so that happy endings are by no means guaranteed, but as in real life, happy endings are rarely real anyway. Real endings are messy, often a complex mix of happy, sad, and indeterminate threads which leave lots of loose ends that keep the story going long after we cease to play a role in it.

      So, if you like short stories about people, you might enjoy this book.

      I won my copy of this book free through a Goodreads giveaway.
    • 2/5
      Judging by this collection of short stories, Haddon is clearly a very gifted writer, but he seems to have an almost unremittingly bleak view of the world and of human nature. Most of the stories are in one way or another about how people react to the extreme physicality of violence and suffering when it breaks unexpectedly into their lives. The context and the approach vary from story to story - in "The pier falls" the style is so journalistic that it's a surprise to find that this isn't a description of an actual event; "Wodwo" brings figures of medieval myth into a contemporary magic-realist setting; "The Island" takes a legend in its own terms and strips the magic away from it; "The woodpecker and the wolf" seems to be magic-realist sci-fi; "The boys who left home to learn fear" is Rider Haggard/Conan Doyle adventure; whilst "Bunny", "Breathe" and "The gun" are good old-fashioned council-estate drab. But every time we know that at some point in the story we are going to get dismemberment, violent death and soiled underpants. But with enough real feeling that it's never merely grotesque grand guignol. If you like this sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing you will probably like.