Author: Lionel Shriver
- Fiction
- Anagrama, Editorial S.A.
- ISBN: 9788433978950
- Release Date: 09-30-2014
Synopsis
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the siblings last saw one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened?And it's not just the weight. After his brother-in-law has more than overstayed his welcome, Pandora's husband, Fletcher, delivers an ultimatum: it's him or me. Putting her marriage and her adopted family on the line, Pandora chooses her brother—who without her support in losing weight, will surely eat himself into an early grave.
Pandora Halfdanarson vive en una casa unifamiliar, con su marido y dos hijastros adolescentes. El marido se ha obsesionado con la vida sana, se ha convertido en un nazi de la nutrición. Ella tiene su propio negocio de peculiares muñecos parlantes para adultos que causan furor. Su hermano Edison, pianista de jazz bohemio afincado en Nueva York, viene a visitarla básicamente porque ya no tiene donde vivir. Cuando ella va a recogerlo al aeropuerto al principio no lo reconoce, porque Edison ha engordado, ha más que doblado su peso y se ha convertido en una mole obesa que come compulsivamente. El aterrizaje del bohemio y asocial devorador compulsivo en la casa familiar de Pandora no tarda en generar conflictos.
