Shutter Island

«Una novela brillantemente concebida y ejecutada.»
The Washington Post

Septiembre de 1954. En un islote llamado Shutter Island, frente a la costa de Boston, se alza un conjunto de edificios de aspecto siniestro: se trata de un hospital psiquiátrico cuyos internos, todos hondamente perturbados y sometidos a una vigilancia estricta, han cometido algún crimen grave. El agente federal Teddy Daniels y su ayudante, Chuck Aule, son enviados allí porque una de las reclusas, Rachel Solando, parece haberse evadido de algún modo incomprensible de una celda cerrada a cal y canto. La única pista es una hoja de papel con una serie de números y letras sin significado aparente.

Mientras un furioso huracán azota el peñón, los dos policías se adentran en un mundo cada vez más opaco y angustiante, entre indicios de experimentos radicales y maquinaciones gubernamentales encubiertas que ensombrecen un caso ya de por sí extraño. A medida que su investigación avanza, las preguntas aumentan: ya no se refieren tan solo a la mujer desaparecida, sino a la naturaleza de todo lo que sucede en ese lugar rodeado por una valla electrificada y guardias armados. Y, cuanto más se acercan a la verdad, ésta se vuelve cada vez más esquiva, hasta el punto de hacerles creer que tal vez nunca puedan abandonar Shutter Island.

Homenaje a la novela gótica, thriller psicológico apasionante y atmosférico donde nada es lo que parece, Shutter Island es una de las obras maestras de Dennis Lehane y un best-seller internacional que dio pie a una película de culto de Martin Scorsese. Gracias a un elenco de personajes magistralmente dibujados, Dennis Lehane desciende a los abismos del alma humana y nos desafía a enfrentarnos al engañoso poder de nuestra mente.

La crítica ha dicho:
«Una novela brillantemente concebida y ejecutada.»
The Washington Post

«Sorprendentemente original.»
The New York Times

«Abróchense los cinturones para un viaje vertiginoso y lleno de emociones. [ ] Absorbente y apasionante.»
The Boston Globe

«Combina la claustrofobia de Agatha Christie con lo escalofriante de una buena historia de Stephen King. [...] Es imposible dejar de leerla.»
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

«Un thriller deslumbrante.»
Kirkus Reviews

«Un suspense vertiginoso y una historia colosal.»
USA Today

«Un tour de force psicológico en el que nada es lo que parece.»
The Times Literary Supplement

«El final es tan impactante que pasará a la historia como una de las resoluciones más perfectas jamás escritas.»
Publishers Weekly

«Otra nueva vuelta de tuerca en la narrativa de Dennis Lehane.»
El País

«Alcanza, con una fuerza abrumadora, el punto incandescente de la fragilidad humana.»
Télérama

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Shutter Island

«Una novela brillantemente concebida y ejecutada.»
The Washington Post

Septiembre de 1954. En un islote llamado Shutter Island, frente a la costa de Boston, se alza un conjunto de edificios de aspecto siniestro: se trata de un hospital psiquiátrico cuyos internos, todos hondamente perturbados y sometidos a una vigilancia estricta, han cometido algún crimen grave. El agente federal Teddy Daniels y su ayudante, Chuck Aule, son enviados allí porque una de las reclusas, Rachel Solando, parece haberse evadido de algún modo incomprensible de una celda cerrada a cal y canto. La única pista es una hoja de papel con una serie de números y letras sin significado aparente.

Mientras un furioso huracán azota el peñón, los dos policías se adentran en un mundo cada vez más opaco y angustiante, entre indicios de experimentos radicales y maquinaciones gubernamentales encubiertas que ensombrecen un caso ya de por sí extraño. A medida que su investigación avanza, las preguntas aumentan: ya no se refieren tan solo a la mujer desaparecida, sino a la naturaleza de todo lo que sucede en ese lugar rodeado por una valla electrificada y guardias armados. Y, cuanto más se acercan a la verdad, ésta se vuelve cada vez más esquiva, hasta el punto de hacerles creer que tal vez nunca puedan abandonar Shutter Island.

Homenaje a la novela gótica, thriller psicológico apasionante y atmosférico donde nada es lo que parece, Shutter Island es una de las obras maestras de Dennis Lehane y un best-seller internacional que dio pie a una película de culto de Martin Scorsese. Gracias a un elenco de personajes magistralmente dibujados, Dennis Lehane desciende a los abismos del alma humana y nos desafía a enfrentarnos al engañoso poder de nuestra mente.

La crítica ha dicho:
«Una novela brillantemente concebida y ejecutada.»
The Washington Post

«Sorprendentemente original.»
The New York Times

«Abróchense los cinturones para un viaje vertiginoso y lleno de emociones. [ ] Absorbente y apasionante.»
The Boston Globe

«Combina la claustrofobia de Agatha Christie con lo escalofriante de una buena historia de Stephen King. [...] Es imposible dejar de leerla.»
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

«Un thriller deslumbrante.»
Kirkus Reviews

«Un suspense vertiginoso y una historia colosal.»
USA Today

«Un tour de force psicológico en el que nada es lo que parece.»
The Times Literary Supplement

«El final es tan impactante que pasará a la historia como una de las resoluciones más perfectas jamás escritas.»
Publishers Weekly

«Otra nueva vuelta de tuerca en la narrativa de Dennis Lehane.»
El País

«Alcanza, con una fuerza abrumadora, el punto incandescente de la fragilidad humana.»
Télérama

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«Una novela brillantemente concebida y ejecutada.»
The Washington Post

Septiembre de 1954. En un islote llamado Shutter Island, frente a la costa de Boston, se alza un conjunto de edificios de aspecto siniestro: se trata de un hospital psiquiátrico cuyos internos, todos hondamente perturbados y sometidos a una vigilancia estricta, han cometido algún crimen grave. El agente federal Teddy Daniels y su ayudante, Chuck Aule, son enviados allí porque una de las reclusas, Rachel Solando, parece haberse evadido de algún modo incomprensible de una celda cerrada a cal y canto. La única pista es una hoja de papel con una serie de números y letras sin significado aparente.

Mientras un furioso huracán azota el peñón, los dos policías se adentran en un mundo cada vez más opaco y angustiante, entre indicios de experimentos radicales y maquinaciones gubernamentales encubiertas que ensombrecen un caso ya de por sí extraño. A medida que su investigación avanza, las preguntas aumentan: ya no se refieren tan solo a la mujer desaparecida, sino a la naturaleza de todo lo que sucede en ese lugar rodeado por una valla electrificada y guardias armados. Y, cuanto más se acercan a la verdad, ésta se vuelve cada vez más esquiva, hasta el punto de hacerles creer que tal vez nunca puedan abandonar Shutter Island.

Homenaje a la novela gótica, thriller psicológico apasionante y atmosférico donde nada es lo que parece, Shutter Island es una de las obras maestras de Dennis Lehane y un best-seller internacional que dio pie a una película de culto de Martin Scorsese. Gracias a un elenco de personajes magistralmente dibujados, Dennis Lehane desciende a los abismos del alma humana y nos desafía a enfrentarnos al engañoso poder de nuestra mente.

La crítica ha dicho:
«Una novela brillantemente concebida y ejecutada.»
The Washington Post

«Sorprendentemente original.»
The New York Times

«Abróchense los cinturones para un viaje vertiginoso y lleno de emociones. [ ] Absorbente y apasionante.»
The Boston Globe

«Combina la claustrofobia de Agatha Christie con lo escalofriante de una buena historia de Stephen King. [...] Es imposible dejar de leerla.»
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

«Un thriller deslumbrante.»
Kirkus Reviews

«Un suspense vertiginoso y una historia colosal.»
USA Today

«Un tour de force psicológico en el que nada es lo que parece.»
The Times Literary Supplement

«El final es tan impactante que pasará a la historia como una de las resoluciones más perfectas jamás escritas.»
Publishers Weekly

«Otra nueva vuelta de tuerca en la narrativa de Dennis Lehane.»
El País

«Alcanza, con una fuerza abrumadora, el punto incandescente de la fragilidad humana.»
Télérama


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788419851765
Publisher: SALAMANDRA
Publication date: 07/10/2025
Sold by: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 764 KB
Language: Spanish

About the Author

About The Author

Dennis Lehane (Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1965) descubrió su vocación de escritor en el Eckerd College y realizó un curso de escritura creativa en la Universidad Internacional de Florida. Debutó en 1994 con Un trago antes de la guerra, premio Shamus y primera de una larga lista de novelas llevadas a la gran pantalla con enorme éxito. Ha participado como guionista en «The Wire» y otras series. Ha ganado los premios Shamus, Edgar, Anthony y Barry a la mejor novela, el Massachusetts de ficción y, en España, el XII Premio Pepe Carvalho de 2017. En Salamandra ha publicado Un trago antes de la guerra, Abrázame, oscuridad, Mystic River, Cualquier otro día, La entrega, Ese mundo desaparecido, Después de la caída y Golpe de gracia.


Dennis Lehane (Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1965) descubrió su vocación de escritor en el Eckerd College y realizó un curso de escritura creativa en la Universidad Internacional de Florida. Debutó en 1994 con Un trago antes de la guerra, premio Shamus y primera de una larga lista de novelas llevadas a la gran pantalla con enorme éxito. Ha participado como guionista en «The Wire» y otras series. Ha ganado los premios Shamus, Edgar, Anthony y Barry a la mejor novela, el Massachusetts de ficción y, en España, el XII Premio Pepe Carvalho de 2017. En Salamandra ha publicado Un trago antes de la guerra, Abrázame, oscuridad, Mystic River, Cualquier otro día, La entrega, Ese mundo desaparecido, Después de la caída y Golpe de gracia.

Hometown:

Boston, Massachusetts

Date of Birth:

August 4, 1965

Place of Birth:

Dorchester, Massachusetts

Education:

B.A., Eckerd College, 1988; M.F.A., Florida International University, 1993

Read an Excerpt

Shutter Island
A Novel

Chapter One

Teddy Daniel's father had been a fisherman. He lost his boat to the bank in '31 when Teddy was eleven, spent the rest of his life hiring onto other boats when they had the work, unloading freight along the docks when they didn't, going long stretches when he was back at the house by ten in the morning, sitting in an armchair, staring at his hands, whispering to himself occasionally, his eyes gone wide and dark.

He'd taken Teddy out to the islands when Teddy was still a small boy, too young to be much help on the boat. All he'd been able to do was untangle the lines and tie off the hooks. He'd cut himself a few times, and the blood dotted his fingertips and smeared his palms.

They'd left in the dark, and when the sun appeared, it was a cold ivory that pushed up from the edge of the sea, and the islands appeared out of the fading dusk, huddled together, as if they'd been caught at something.

Teddy saw small, pastel-colored shacks lining the beach of one, a crumbling limestone estate on another. His father pointed out the prison on Deer Island and the stately fort on Georges. On Thompson, the high trees were filled with birds, and their chatter sounded like squalls of hail and glass.

Out past them all, the one they called Shutter lay like something tossed from a Spanish galleon. Back then, in the spring of '28, it had been left to itself in a riot of its own vegetation, and the fort that stretched along its highest point was strangled in vines and topped with great clouds of moss.

"Why Shutter?" Teddy asked.

His father shrugged. "You with the questions. Always the questions."

"Yeah, but why?"

"Some places just get a name and it sticks. Pirates probably."

"Pirates?" Teddy liked the sound of that. He could see them -- big men with eye patches and tall boots, gleaming swords.

His father said, "This is where they hid in the old days." His arm swept the horizon. "These islands. Hid themselves. Hid their gold."

Teddy imagined chests of it, the coins spilling down the sides.

Later he got sick, repeatedly and violently, pitching black ropes of it over the side of his father's boat and into the sea.

His father was surprised because Teddy hadn't begun to vomit until hours into the trip when the ocean was flat and glistening with its own quiet. His father said, "It's okay. It's your first time. Nothing to be ashamed of."

Teddy nodded, wiped his mouth with a cloth his father gave him.

His father said, "Sometimes there's motion, and you can't even feel it until it climbs up inside of you."

Another nod, Teddy unable to tell his father that it wasn't motion that had turned his stomach.

It was all that water. Stretched out around them until it was all that was left of the world. How Teddy believed that it could swallow the sky. Until that moment, he'd never known they were this alone.

He looked up at his father, his eyes leaking and red, and his father said, "You'll be okay," and Teddy tried to smile.

His father went out on a Boston whaler in the summer of '38 and never came back. The next spring, pieces of the boat washed up on Nantasket Beach in the town of Hull, where Teddy grew up. A strip of keel, a hot plate with the captain's name etched in the base, cans of tomato and potato soup, a couple of lobster traps, gap-holed and misshapen.

They held the funeral for the four fishermen in St. Theresa's Church, its back pressed hard against the same sea that had claimed so many of its parishioners, and Teddy stood with his mother and heard testimonials to the captain, his first mate, and the third fisherman, an old salt named Gil Restak, who'd terrorized the bars of Hull since returning from the Great War with a shattered heel and too many ugly pictures in his head. In death, though, one of the bartenders he'd terrorized had said, all was forgiven.

The boat's owner, Nikos Costa, admitted that he'd barely known Teddy's father, that he'd hired on at the last minute when a crew member broke his leg in a fall from a truck. Still, the captain had spoken highly of him, said everyone in town knew that he could do a day's work. And wasn't that the highest praise one could give a man?

Standing in that church, Teddy remembered that day on his father's boat because they'd never gone out again. His father kept saying they would, but Teddy understood that he said this only so his son could hold on to some pride. His father never acknowledged what had happened that day, but a look had passed between them as they headed home, back through the string of islands, Shutter behind them, Thompson still ahead, the city skyline so clear and close you'd think you could lift a building by its spire. "It's the sea," his father said, a hand lightly rubbing Teddy's back as they leaned against the stern. "Some men take to it. Some men it takes."

And he'd looked at Teddy in such a way that Teddy knew which of those men he'd probably grow up to be.

Shutter Island
A Novel
. Copyright © by Dennis Lehane. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

Interviews

Ransom Notes Interview with Claire Wachtel, Dennis Lehane's Editor

Claire Wachtel: I've been Dennis Lehane's editor since the beginning of his publishing career. When I read his first book, A Drink Before the War, I immediately realized that he was something special. He is a superb writer, whose work engages me every time I read it…and I read each manuscript at least three or four times as I'm working on it.

Mystic River is my all-time favorite of Dennis's books -- a fully realized novel that just happens to be a mystery. To me, that signals Dennis is no longer a genre writer, but a novelist in the sense of the literary greats.

Ransom Notes: What do you enjoy most about editing mystery/suspense books?

CW: I'm always enthralled by the unexpected in any genre, but there is nothing like the twists and turns and edge-of-the-seat suspense of a good mystery. This is especially true when the writing is as first-rate as Dennis Lehane's. In the case of Shutter Island, the characters are unique, the setting perfect for a thriller. And ultimately not knowing whose voice to trust made it as exciting as a roller-coaster ride.

RN: What did you think when Dennis Lehane first told you about his idea for Shutter Island?

CW: Dennis led several of us through the plotline, and we sat, riveted -- hanging on his every word. From the first I thought it was a brilliant idea, but I also thought it would be difficult to carry off, given the almost dual plots. Dennis handled this challenge superbly. Shutter Island is a tour de force.

RN: What did setting Shutter Island at a hospital for the criminally insane do for the story?

CW: It seems to me that the hospital setting is one of the keys to the book. I think Dennis did an amazing job portraying his characters' differing perceptions of realities, so at each turn the reader was left uncertain as to whom to believe. This really added to the suspense.

RN: What do you think setting much of the story in 1954 added?

CW: It seems to me that when dealing with conspiracy theories in novels, historical distance gives the reader an added perspective. Setting Shutter Island right in the middle of the McCarthy era signals readers that, based on what we know of history, something is amiss. One intriguing thing about Dennis's writing is that there always is a nub of truth. I think readers will come away from Shutter Island thinking it was a terrific read…and many will also find insights into issues that confront us in America today.

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