Algo absolutamente extraordinario /An Absolutely Remarkable Thing-Quality Guarantee

Description

Poderosamente relevante e imposible de dejar de leer, Algo absolutamente extraordinario trata grandes temas de actualidad como las redes sociales,laradicalización de los discursos y la deshumanización que conlleva lafama.

La vida de April May nunca volverá a ser la a casa alas tres de la mañana, April se encontró con una escultura gigante,sobre la que colgó un vídeo. Ahora los Carls, las misteriosas estatuasque aparecen y desaparecen en el mundo entero, se han hecho virales, yApril May con ellas.

¿Será esta su oportunidad para dejar huellaen el mundo? April prontodescubrirá las consecuencias que toda estaatención conlleva, y que elmundo haya depositado en ella laresponsabilidad de averiguar qué son los Carls y, sobre todo# quéquieren de nosotros.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

THEINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is a fun read. Butbeneath its effervescent tone, more complex themes are at play.” —SanFrancisco Chronicle

In his wildly entertaining debut novel, Hank Green—cocreator of CrashCourse, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow—spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about ayoung woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she’s part ofsomething bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possiblyimagined.

The Carls just appeared.

Roaming through New York City at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old AprilMay stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance andcraftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samuraiarmor—April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andyuploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a newlife. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities aroundthe world—from Beijing to Buenos Aires—and April, as their firstdocumentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international mediaspotlight.

Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on the world, April now has todeal with the consequences her new particular brand of fame has on herrelationships, her safety, and her own identity. And all eyes are on April tofigure out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us.

Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely RemarkableThing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changingfame, rhetoric, and radicalization; how our culture deals with fear anduncertainty; and how vilification and adoration spring for the samedehumanization that follows a life in the public eye. The beginning of anexciting fiction career, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is a bold andinsightful novel of now.