Corazones perdidos

Tras los éxitos de Todo lo que no te conté y Pequeños fuegos por todas partes, Celeste Ng se adentra en un escenario distópico en su esperada tercera novela, Corazones perdidos, una historia conmovedora y llena de suspense de inquebrantable amor maternofilial en una sociedad consumida por el miedo. Bird Gardner es un niño de doce años que lleva una vida aparentemente tranquila con un padre cariñoso pero atormentado, que trabaja como bibliotecario en la Universidad de Harvard. A lo largo de una década y tras años de inestabilidad económica y violencia callejera, el gobierno de Estados Unidos ha aprobado leyes para preservar la «cultura americana». Con la excusa de mantener la paz y recuperar la prosperidad, las autoridades pueden separar a los hijos de los disidentes y además se han prohibido los libros considerados antipatrióticos, entre ellos la obra de la madre de Bird, Margaret Miu, una poeta estadounidense de origen chino que abandonó a su familia cuando este tenía nueve años. Pero, cuando el muchacho recibe una carta misteriosa que contiene solo un dibujo críptico, toma la decisión de encontrarla. Esta es una novela sobre lazos familiares y también sobre cómo una sociedad supuestamente civilizada puede cometer las mayores injusticias. Es una historia sobre el poder –y las limitaciones– del arte para promover el cambio, sobre las enseñanzas que transmitimos a nuestros hijos y sobre la posibilidad de sobrevivir en un mundo roto con el corazón intacto. "From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's a story about the power-and limitations-of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact"-- Provided by publisher