EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A gorgeous reminder of what really matters. Prepare to be astounded." -People "One of the best, most moving books I have read in years." -Scott Detrow, NPR "Like nothing you've ever read before...simply unforgettable." -Jodi Picoult
For fans of Matt Haig and Virginia Evans, an astonishing novel about finding beauty in the brevity of life, as narrated by the one who knows it best: Death.
Travis is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a small, gray town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life, which he does without complaint or judgement. He's stoic, gentle, and a little naive, despite who he is, but he never tries to change anyone's fate. He is responsible for maintaining the balance of nature, and every life must eventually end.
Then Travis meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, who live across the hall, and despite his best attempts to keep his distance, he finds himself wholeheartedly embraced by other people for the first time. So it is with this seemingly unremarkable family that Travis begins to understand what it means to be truly alive-and what might be irrevocably lost in death.
Written with radiant warmth, wisdom, and compassion, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt is a timeless and ultimately uplifting story that will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost or worried about time's passing.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
REEVES BEN
Ben Reeves es un artista visual, escritor y docente canadiense nacido en 1969 en Lynn Lake, Manitoba, y radicado en Vancouver, Columbia Británica. Obtuvo una licenciatura en Bellas Artes en la Universidad de Columbia Británica en 1993 y una maestría en el Chelsea College of Art and Design de Londres en 1995. Su producción abarca la pintura, el dibujo y publicaciones monográficas de arte contemporáneo, entre ellas Ben Reeves: Compositions for Drive-by Viewing en 2005 y Ben Reeves: Floating Nature en 2017. Ha ejercido como profesor asociado en la Universidad de Arte y Diseño Emily Carr desde 2005 y su obra integra las colecciones permanentes de instituciones como la Galería de Arte de Vancouver y el Museo de Arte de la Universidad de Toronto
