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Más Allá / Afterlife"Uno de los libros ms esperados del ao" segn Oh, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, Vogue, Goodreads, Library Journal, LitHub y Electric Literature. Poco despus de jubilarse de la universidad donde enseaba literatura, Antonia Vega, una escritora latina, pierde a su adorado esposo y su vida parece desmoronarse de repente. Hasta entonces pareca haber encontrado consuelo en la literatura que ama las palabras de sus autores preferidos dan vueltas en
"Uno de los libros más esperados del año" según Oh, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, Vogue, Goodreads, Library Journal, LitHub y Electric Literature. Poco después de jubilarse de la universidad donde enseñaba literatura, Antonia Vega, una escritora latina, pierde a su adorado esposo y su vida parece desmoronarse de repente. Hasta entonces parecía haber encontrado consuelo en la literatura que ama--las palabras de sus autores preferidos dan vueltas en su cabeza como plegarias--, pero la desaparición de su hermana, con su personalidad impredecible y su gran corazón, junto con la aparición de una inmigrante ilegal en el garaje de su casa, devuelven a Antonia a la dura realidad. En estas circunstancias, el mundo requiere más que palabras. Mas allá es una novela ágil y de prosa depurada. En momentos en los que reinan la confusión y el caos, la protagonista se plantea: ¿Le debemos algo a los que sufren, sean inmigrantes desconocidos o familiares cercanos? ¿Cómo podemos mantener la fe en los demás y en nosotros mismos en una realidad destrozada? Y, sobre todo, ¿cómo honramos a las personas que amamos y hemos perdido? "Una imponente obra de arte que recordara a los lectores que Alvarez está, y siempre ha estado, en un nivel inigualable". --Elizabeth Acevedo, autora del New York Times bestseller, Poet X y ganadora del National Book Award "Un retrato íntimo de una escritora inmigrante y reciente viuda que consigue sacar esperanza en medio de un luto personal y político". --O, The Oprah Magazine "Una novela divertida y conmovedora acerca del amor y la perdida...Alvarez escribe con calidez sobre la relación entre hermanas, sobre cómo pueden pelearse, pero también como apoyarse como nadie. En esta novela de corazón grande, los lazos familiares sanan el luto de una mujer".--Kirkus Reviews "Una encantadora novela de inmigración, perdida y amor". --Booklist "La reina está de vuelta con la novela que necesitamos en este momento. Un poderoso testimonio sobre la humanidad, escrito con audacia y autoridad". --Luis Alberto Urrea, autor del bestseller, La casa de los ángeles rotos "Encantadora y sincera, Mas allá explora las complejidades de la devoción familiar y la tragedia, con el trasfondo de un mundo en crisis, y la forma en que luchamos por mantener la esperanza, la fe, la compasión y el amor. Esta es Julia Alvarez en su mejor y mas intima version". --Jonathan Santlofer, autor de The Widower's Notebook "Desde siempre Julia Alvarez ha demostrado que es sabia además de divertida, y que tiene buen ojo para las alegrías y los pesares del amor y la familia. Ahora, en Mas allá, aplica sus dones a la historia de Antonia, quien lucha por salir de la comodidad consoladora de la poesía y enfrentarse de nuevo a la floreciente confusión del mundo".--Stewart O'Nan, autor de Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine * The New York Times * The Washington Post *Vogue * Bustle * BuzzFeed * Ms. magazine * The Millions * Huffington Post * PopSugar * The Lily * Goodreads * Library Journal * LitHub * Electric Literature The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents "A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own." --Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack--but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including--maybe especially--members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?
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★★★★★ 4
A fairly decent super hero romp
Format: Paperback
If Mister Terrific suffers from any one flaw it is that he is incredibly generic. Nothing about this book was particularly offensive and it provided for some fairly good reads but the villains Terrific goes up against are hardly that. Despite this weakness, I found the series to be a fairly good read and while the major ongoing storylines were clearly cut short by the title's untimely demise, the ending satisfactorily led into the current status quo for Mister Terrific on Earth-2. Whether his presence there becomes relevant or not remains to be seen (particularly with the depature of Earth-2 writer James Robinson) but as things stand now, Mind Games still seems to be valuable background reading for Earth-2 and also lays a bit of ground work for the plot in World's Finest, meaning that Mister Terrific is nicely connected to the two current Earth-2 based titles.
The pace of the book is fairly decent, with several short story arcs that see Mister Terrific facing different villains and an ongoing plot throughout that deals with Terrific's secret identity and the issues he is dealing with as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. The writing is not always sharp but the supporting cast is fairly solid and its a tragedy that we probably won't see some of these characters again. Terrific himself has enjoyable, if somewhat illogical, inner monologue that typically involves him thinking through a problem and while the science is (often) fuzzy, Wallace does a good job of showing how science and tech form the basis of Mister Terrific's powerset.
I would characterize this book as a solid B-list entry. Fans of the character may appreciate it as well as readers looking for something a little different but it is by no means a must-read. I'll be keeping it on my shelf as an important book for World's Finest and Earth-2 (both of which I have pulled since issue #1) however. If you can get your hands on this trade (or its related single issues) for a modest price, it provides a decent couple of hours of reading. It is a pity that nothing stands out particularly well but I appreciated that so much seemed to happen in only eight issues compared to some of the tedious extended plots of other comics.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2013
★★★★★ 5
Silver Age Batman time trip
Format: Hardcover
Fun book. I was born at the very beginning of the Silver Age and had older brothers, so I was reading by four, and had great reading material available.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2025
★★★★★ 5
A Baby Boomer dream come true!
Format: Hardcover
I love the Golden Age omnibus Batman series. However, for many of us baby boomers the Silver Age is what we’ve been craving. Those were exciting days back then, looking for the new issue of Batman or Detective Comics on the newsstand. One of the previous reviewers is correct, though, there are some missing issues between the last golden age omnibus and this, the first silver age omnibus, that need to be put into book form at some point. I certainly hope we get them. But more than anything I am really hoping that this will not be the first and last silver age omnibus. By my count, there are almost exactly the issues needed to make three more silver age volumes before we get to the “new look Batman,” which started in mid 1964. And frankly, I hope they continue on with a “new look” omnibus series as well. This first volume, though, was absolutely beautiful! The re-creation of these old panels is breathtaking. When you go back and look at the old dot matrix original issues and compare them to the re-printings contained within this omnibus…well…there simply is no comparison. Batman, the Silver Age Omnibus Volume One is practically as good as it gets. The only thing more I could have wished for would have been the inclusion of the old advertisements that decorated the pages of the original issues. Other than that, this book is perfect. Wow!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2022
★★★★★ 5
Quality Reproduction of Artwork
Format: Hardcover
The book looks great and includes a massive amount of content; however, this is DC Batman Silver Age stories verses Marvel Silver Age stories. It was hard getting through some of the stories and did not make it through the entire book. I think I would have enjoyed the stories that came before this collection and/or the great Neal Adams Batman content. This era of batman stories was just silly and boring. But just my opinion.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Terrific buy for old time Batman comics.
Format: Hardcover
These Batman Omnibus collections are great for compiling these still amazing comics in an inexpensive way. Much cheaper than trying to get the original comics.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2025