Klickitat

by Peter Rock

Overview

En la maravillosa Mi Abandono, Peter Rock mostró su destreza para que conductas y situaciones extrañas parezcan completamente verosímiles, y para dotarlas de un profundo suspenso. Situada en los terrenos crepusculares entre la realidad y la fantasía, la locura y la cordura, donde muchos de nosotros vivimos durante la adolescencia, Klickitat cuenta una historia fascinante e inquietante sobre cómo escapar y esconderse a la vista de todos. Ursula K. Le Guin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789878413532
Publisher:	Ediciones Godot
Publication date:	10/05/2022
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	2 MB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Peter Rock nació y se crio en Salt Lake City, Estados Unidos. Estudió en Deep Springs, la Universidad de Yale y la Universidad de Stanford. Actualmente vive en Portland, Oregon. Mi abandono, publicado en 2009, tuvo su adaptación al cine en 2018 con Leave no trace, dirigida por Debra Granik. Es el primer título de su obra que se traduce al castellano.

Editorial Reviews

[Klickitat] is so haunting and elliptical, it takes you over like a fever…Rock's prose calls to mind Kazuo Ishiguro, not just for its spareness but also for its mix of wonder and creepiness…Rock taps into something moving about love and disconnectedness—and how hard it is for a young, dented heart to process the world when the world can't process her.

The New York Times Book Review - Jeff Giles

" Brooding, evocative, mysterious; a tale for mature readers to dig into—and then discuss."

Kirkus

"...the book features themes that teens can easily relate to: developing one’s identity, coping with distant parents, questioning authority, and rejecting “the way things are.” ...This is a quick read, and the tension is maintained throughout, making this ideal for mystery lovers and reluctant readers. VERDICT A gripping, tautly constructed, down-the-rabbit-hole mystery."

School Library Journal

"This richly atmospheric, magicial realist story poses existential questions about displacement, the limits of normal life in cities and suburbs, and the disconnection between people who talk past each other, sending out messages that may not reach their intended recipients or any recipients at all."

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Rock’s YA debut is lyrical, mystifying, and wrenching.

The Boston Globe

"Alex Award winner Rock (My Abandonment, 2009) weaves a quiet, highly atmospheric tale of sisterly love, finding your true self, and personal connection. The idea of communication pervades the narrative—disembodied voices snared by radio frequencies, cryptic words that appear in Vivian’s notebook as if by magic. This is a novel for contemplative teens that will prompt them to examine the world they know in a new light."

Booklist

"... this pensive, atmospheric novel rewards its readers with an unsettling yet beguiling exploration of how humans connect with each other, their environment, and what lies beyond."

The Horn Book

"Alex Award winner Rock (My Abandonment, 2009) weaves a quiet, highly atmospheric tale of sisterly love, finding your true self, and personal connection. The idea of communication pervades the narrative—disembodied voices snared by radio frequencies, cryptic words that appear in Vivian’s notebook as if by magic. This is a novel for contemplative teens that will prompt them to examine the world they know in a new light."

Booklist

2015-12-22
Vivian, 15, who struggles with anxiety, feels her older sister, Audra, 17, a strong-willed free spirit, pulling away from her; before Audra vanishes, she promises Vivian she'll come back for her. With her parents preoccupied with work and worries about Audra, Vivian discovers strange messages appearing in her old yellow notebook. She'd like to show them to Audra, now absent, but in her room, Vivian discovers new books in her bookcase, including detailed guides on how to survive in the wilderness. Audra keeps her promise, and Henry, the boy who's become her partner in escaping the urban world and its social connections, brings Vivian to join them in their hiding place. While Audra and Henry work days, Vivian waits, hidden under a house in the city, until night falls and the three steal away to the park to practice survival skills. Audra is inspired by Caroline from Rock's Alex Award winner, My Abandonment (2009); Taffy also turns up. But while revisiting thematic territory, this journey is more pared down yet longer and darker. Characters recede from one another like stars in an expanding universe, empty space growing vast between them. The Klickitat are a Yakama Nation tribe, and Ramona Quimby famously lives on Klickitat Street, but here the word is a signal between the sisters, symbol of their fragile connection. Brooding, evocative, mysterious; a tale for mature readers to dig into—and then discuss. (Fiction. 14-18)

Kirkus Reviews