Mr. Wilder and Me
Written by Jonathan Coe
Narrated by Kristen Atherton
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In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good.
While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realization that his star may be on the wane. Rebuffed by Hollywood, he has financed his new film with German money, and when Calista follows him to Munich for the shooting of further scenes, she finds herself joining him on a journey of memory into the dark heart of his family history.
In a novel that is at once a tender coming-of-age story and an intimate portrait of one of cinema's most intriguing figures, Jonathan Coe turns his gaze on the nature of time and fame, of family and the treacherous lure of nostalgia. When the world is catapulting towards change, do you hold on for dear life or decide it's time to let go?
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe (Birmingham, 1961) estudió en las universidades de Cambridge y Warwick. En Anagrama ha publicado las novelas ¡Menudo reparto! (Premio John Llewellyn Rhys y, en Francia, Premio al Mejor Libro Extranjero): «El horror y el humor van de la mano en esta novela, a la que habrá que recurrir en el futuro cuando uno quiera saber qué sucedió en la Inglaterra de los años ochenta» (Ramón de España); La casa del sueño (Premio Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Best Novel y, en Francia, Premio Médicis Extranjero): «Si se organizase un festival de escritores verdaderamente originales, habría que invitarlo a él» (Javier Aparicio Maydeu, El Periódico); El Club de los Canallas (Premio Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente y Premio Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse): «La más colorida de las novelas sobre los años más grises» (Rodrigo Fresán); El Círculo Cerrado: «Retrato perfecto de la Inglaterra de finales del siglo XX, lleno de sátira. Un libro altamente devorable» (Kiko Amat); La lluvia antes de caer: «Si buscan novelas que no se lean de un tirón y traten al lector con respeto, si les gusta desentrañarlas y demorarse en ellas, háganse con un ejemplar» (Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, El País); La espantosa intimidad de Maxwell Sim: «¡Genial!... Lo tiene todo. Buenísima, apasionante, divertida, cínica, tierna, única; el final es deslumbrante» (Javier Puebla, Cambio 16); Expo 58: «La novela que habría escrito Graham Greene si hubiera leído más de la cuenta a un Evelyn Waugh poderosamente nostálgico» (Laura Fernández, El Mundo); El número 11: «El mejor retrato imaginable de la Inglaterra actual» (David Morán, Rockdelux); y El corazón de Inglaterra: «La mejor novela para entender el divorcio entre el Reino Unido y Europa» (Juan Cruz, El País).
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