East of the Mountains - Tapa blanda

"A compassionate and masterful achievement." --"San Francisco Chronicle ""A strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer " "The writing is wonderful throughout, the characters are vivid...heartfelt, engaging and well drawn." --"The Miami Herald " "Profound and ambitious. . . . Guterson depicts . . . moral and spiritual struggle with a clear-eyed intensity and intelligence that gives East of the Mountains its essential authority." --"Chicago Tribune ""The shape is elegant, the tone is perfectly controlled, almost cool, and Guterson's prose shines with [a] taut polish. . . .[He] is a craftsman with a sense of literary history, one of the most serious and accomplished young American writers." -"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution " "Guterson possesses a remarkable gift for capturing people and places, etching them into the reader's mind." -"USA Today" "Elegiac . . . like his first novel, Guterson's sophomore outi " A compassionate and masterful achievement." -- "San Francisco Chronicle "" A strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement." -- "The Philadelphia Inquirer " " The writing is wonderful throughout, the characters are vivid... heartfelt, engaging and well drawn." -- "The Miami Herald " " Profound and ambitious. . . . Guterson depicts . . . moral and spiritual struggle with a clear-eyed intensity and intelligence that gives East of the Mountains its essential authority." -- "Chicago Tribune "" The shape is elegant, the tone is perfectly controlled, almost cool, and Guterson' s prose shines with [a] taut polish. . . .[He] is a craftsman with a sense of literary history, one of the most serious and accomplished young American writers." - "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution " " Guterson possesses a remarkable gift for capturing people and places, etching them into the reader' s mind." - "USA Today" " Elegiac . . . like his first novel, Guterson' s sophomore outing is a serious and surprising book. . . . A monumental achievement." - "The Philadelphia Inquirer" " In describing the world of a dying man, Guterson invokes the ultimate book of suffering- then, to his great credit, offers it here as a consolation rather than despair." - "The Boston Sunday Globe" " This book would be a challenge to praise too highly. It resounds with clarity. It feels like home." - "The San Diego Union-Tribune "" [Guterson] has produced a clean, unpretentious and expert piece ofwork, filled with the immediate beauty of everyday life and the desolation of leaving it behind." - "The Washington Times " " Wonderfully written, tender toward its characters, and full of incident and insight." - "Men' s Journal "

From the author of THE COUNTRY AHEAD OF US and SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS, a tale about Dr Ben Givens, who, after becoming ill, leaves his home in Seattle, never intending to return. Ben embarks on a journey past snow-covered mountains to a place of canyons, sagelands and orchards where he intends to commit suicide, but it doesn't all go to plan.