La apuesta (Novela (Best Seller)) - Hardcover

Danny Delaney acaba de empezar las vacaciones escolares y ya está saboreando las semanas de libertad que tiene ante sí. Pero al anochecer, cuando su madre regresa a casa acompañada por dos policías, Danny comprende de inmediato que algo muy malo ha sucedido. Abrumada por la culpa, la señora Delaney se encierra en sí misma, y a Danny y su padre les tocará recomponer la unidad de la familia. Escrita para formar parte de la serie Quick Reads (Lecturas Rápidas) —una iniciativa lanzada con el fin de fomentar el hábito de lectura entre los adultos—, La apuesta se transformó en un inesperado y masivo éxito de ventas en Inglaterra.

John Boyne is the author of "Crippen, The Thief of Time, Next of Kin", and the "New York Times" and internationally bestselling "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". Boyne won two Irish Book Awards (the People s Choice and the Children s) for "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", which has recently been made into a Miramax feature film, and his novels have been translated into more than thirty languages. Ireland's "Sunday Business Post" named him one of the forty people under forty in Ireland "likely to be the movers and shakers who will define the country's culture, politics, style and economics in 2005 and beyond." Crippen was nominated for the "Sunday Independent" Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award. He lives with his partner in Dublin.