| Author/Contributor(s): | Stuart, Douglas |
| Publisher: | Literatura Random House |
| Date: | 1/19/2027 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Seleccionada en el club de lectura de Oprah Winfrey.
«Ha tejido con brillantez una historia compleja, cautivadora e íntima». —Oprah Winfrey
«La obra literaria más lograda de Stuart hasta la fecha». —The Observer
«John, hijo de John posee el alcance emocional y la empatía de sus libros anteriores, pero esta novela es especial: tiene urgencia, inmediatez, un deslumbrante sentido del lugar y el dramatismo de una emoción feroz, reprimida, oculta y volcánicamente expuesta». —Colm Tóibín
Sin dinero y con una formación artística que de poco le ha servido, John-Calum Macleod toma el ferry de vuelta a Harris, la isla donde nació, para descubrir que nada ha cambiado. Salvo él. En la desolada granja familiar donde creció, Cal retoma su antigua vida entre los dos polos que marcaron su infancia: su padre, John, pastor de ovejas, tejedor y puntal de la iglesia presbiteriana local, y su abuela materna, Ella, que durante décadas ha mantenido con su yerno una paz precaria.
Mientras Cal se pregunta si habrá otros hombres solitarios en las laderas yermas de su hogar, John contempla con desasosiego el pelo largo de su hijo y su aparente resistencia a ser salvado. Con el paso de las estaciones, todo empieza a cambiar: los hilos que sostienen esa frágil comunidad están a punto de romperse.
Después de Historia de Shuggie Bain (premio Booker 2020) y Un lugar para Mungo, regresa uno de los novelistas británicos más destacados con la conmovedora historia de una fractura familiar en una aislada comunidad rural escocesa.
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AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Oprah Daily, and Vogue
“Douglas Stuart brilliantly weaved a layered, compelling and yet so intimate a story of identity, what it means to belong, and the courage to claim your own truth.” —Oprah Winfrey
“One of 2026's literary triumphs.” —Boston Globe
From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires
Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver, and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the sudden departure of his mother.
Cal privately wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son’s long hair, strange clothes, and seeming unwillingness to be Saved. But Cal isn't the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets. As lambing season turns to shearing season, the threads holding together the community together become increasingly frayed, and nothing will remain as it was before.
John of John is a singular novel about duty, passion, and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent literary work that cements Douglas Stuart's reputation as one of our greatest novelists working today.