Part of the 'Collector's Library' series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.

A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes publicly destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stages an all-consuming war on the raccoons living in the woods around their house. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it's just a matter of time before she turns on him. In this new collection of short stories, acclaimed author Paul Theroux explores the tenuous leadership of the elite and the surprising revenge of the overlooked. He shows us humanity possessed, consumed by its own desire and compulsion, always with his carefully honed eye for detail and the subtle idiosyncrasies that bring his characters to life. Searing, dark, and sure to unsettle, Mr. Bones is a stunning new display of Paul Theroux's �fluent, faintly sinister powers of vision and imagination� (John Updike, The New Yorker).

Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta.In A Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a captivating and seductive American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die — what is it that pulls Delfont into this story, and will he ever find the truth about what happened?

Product Description: En 1986 Paul Theroux decidio viajar a China aprovechando un año sabatico. Su instinto le decia que un pais tan enorme solo puede conocerse ""sin despegar los pies del suelo"". Y se propuso atravesarlo viajando solo en tren. De Mongolia a Pekin, de Pekin a Shanghai, de Shanghai a Canton, y de alli hacia el norte y por todo el interior del pais, Theroux recorrio miles de kilometros...read more