Que el vasto mundo siga girando (OTROS FICCIÓN) (Spanish Edition)

Al amanecer de una mañana de finales de verano, los habitantes de la parte baja de Manhattan miraban absortos hacia lo alto de las Torres Gemelas. Estamos en agosto de 1974 y una minúscula y enigmática figura camina en inverosímil equilibrio sobre un cable entre ambos edificios. Y abajo, en la bulliciosa y violenta Nueva York de la década de los setenta, los destinos de varios personajes se cruzarán y sus vidas aparentemente ordinarias cambiarán para siempre. A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. A 38-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann's allegory comes alive in the voices of the city's people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the "artistic crime of the century"--A mysterious tightrope walker dancing between the Twin Towers.--From publisher description Philippe Petit's illicit 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center towers is the touchstone for stories of the people down below, including an Irish monk living in the Bronx projects, a Park Avenue mother in mourning for her son who died in Vietnam, and a heroin-addicted hooker