Janet Frame

Los tres volúmenes de una de las obras más singulares y atractivas de la literatura con temporánea: la autobiografía de Janet Frame. La tierra del es, Un ángel en mi mesa y E mensajero de la ciudad espejo en un solo libro. Esta hermosa autobiografia constituy una experiencia humana, artistica e intelectual inolvidable. Una vida de lucha a traves de un calvario de pobreza y una personal batalla en hospitale psiquiatricos. Frame narra todo, lo atroz y lo hermoso, con un estilo milagrosamente natu ral. MIGUEL BAYON, El Pais

Janet Frame'A deeply rewarding and beautiful novel' Hilary Mantel, Guardian Life in England seems transitory for Grace Cleave as the pull of her native New Zealand grows stronger. She begins to feel increasingly like a migratory bird. Grace longs to find her own place in the world, if only she can decide where that is. But first she must learn to feel comfortable in her own skin, feathers and all. Written in 1963, Janet Frame considered this novel too personal to be published in her lifetime. 'In this deeply personal novel of exile and loneliness, Janet Frame proves the master of nostalgia, beauty and loss. Frame is, and will remain, divine' Alice Sebold 'Exceptional ...comic, melancholy and piercingly observant' Sunday Telegraph

This novel depicts the confinement of the mad and the banishment and punishment of those whose only reaction to an insane world is to enter a realm of self-creation.

Mona Minim es una pequeña hormiga doméstica que se prepara para tener su primera experiencia fuera del nido. Su enorme expectación por conocer el mundo exterior y la luz del sol se altera cuando, jugando con su amiga Pamela, cae por la grieta de una escalera... A partir de entonces, todo van a ser nuevas e inesperadas aventuras con las que la joven Mona no contaba. Esta obra fue seleccionada por el New York Times como uno de los diez mejores libros del año en literatura infantil.

The third novel by Janet Frame one of New Zealand s foremost writers The Edge of the Alphabet is a piercing startlingly strange work about identity the post colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world published on the centenary of her birth

In this highly inventive novel, New Zealand author Janet Frame weaves reality, fiction and dreams into a beautiful tapestry.

La jove Ístina Mavet està ingressada en un hospital mental. Poc importa el que hagi fet per arribar-hi perquè, un cop dins, ja no és considerada una persona; ara és un ésser sense drets, sense dignit

One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature ANITA BROOKNERLyrical, touching and deeply entertaining JOHN MORTIMER, OBSERVERAny one of her books could be published today and it would be ground-breaking ELEANOR CATTONI was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by more than locked doors and barred windows from the people who called themselves sane.When Janet Frames doctor suggested that she write about her traumatic experiences in mental institutions in order to free herself from them, the result was Faces in the Water, a powerful and poignant novel.Istina Mavet descends through increasingly desolate wards, with the threat of leucotomy ever present. As she observes her fellow patients, long dismissed by hospital staff with humour and compassion, she reveals her original and questing mind. This riveting novel became an international classic, translated into nine languages, and has also been used as a medical school text.Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

All I had experienced, all the stories I had read or dreamed came to me the moment I, a stranger, turned the key in the lock of the unknown house.In a sweltering basement in downtown Baltimore, Mavis Halleton, writer, ventriloquist and gossip, is struggling to write her novel when an unexpected invitation arrives. The Garretts, a couple Mavis has never heard of but who admire her work, are to spend time in Italy and offer the use of their airy home in the Berkeley hills.During her stay, an earthquake hits northern Italy and Mavis, to her surprise, inherits the house. But, surrounded by museum replicas and tasteful imitations, she finds reality itself is on shaky ground.In this highly inventive novel, reality, fiction and dreams are woven together as Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction.