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Nmero 1 en las listas de The New York Times y The Sunday Times
Mejor libro del ao segn The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Mail on Sunday, The New York TimesThe Washington Post y NPR. Ganador del Goodreads Choice Award
Descubre a la novela que ha encandilado a los lectores de todo el mundo!
Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y estrella a su pesar del programa de cocina de televisin ms seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada de cido actico con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que su xito aumenta lo hacen tambin sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no slo est enseando a las mujeres a cocinar sino tambin desafindolas a alterar el orden establecido.
Lecciones de qumica es una novela original y adictiva que desentraa de manera inteligente y entretenida la espinosa cuestin de la igualdad de gnero y la necesidad de ser uno mismo.
Reseas:
Ingenioso, hilarante por momentos, vehemente, surrealista en ocasiones. El Trampa 22 del temprano feminismo.
Stephen King
Se llama tenacidad [y] se llama xito: Lecciones de qumica (Salamandra) se ha convertido en fenmeno en muchos pases y pronto ser una serie de televisin.
Berna Gonzlez Harbour, El Pas
Pocas veces ocurre que un debut cause tanto furor.
Lara Gmez Ruiz, La Vanguardia
Una historia palpitante y original sobre la esperanza y la fidelidad a uno mismo. Para rerse a carcajadas, y llena de vida, generosidad y valenta. Rachel Joyce
De vez en cuando aparece una primera novela en medio de una rfaga de exageraciones y grandes acuerdos televisivos, y antes del primer captulo lanzas un puo al aire porque, por una vez, todo est completamente justificado. Una historia pulida, divertida y que invita a la reflexin. Escrita con tan buen pulso narrativo y frases tan elegantes que cuesta creer que se trate de un debut. The Observer
Una trama muy bien hilvanada, dilogos vibrantes e irnico sentido del humor. Una historia absorbente con villanos odiosos y tipos adorables. Una escritura brillante que es una bocanada de aire fresco.
Sunday Express
Una voz firme, una herona inolvidable e historias de amor verosmiles. [...]Garmus logra encantar al lector creando un conjunto indeleble de personajes obstinados e idiosincrsicos. The Washington Post
Original y refrescante, Elizabeth Zott es uno de esos personajes singulares e imborrables que tanto cuesta hallar en la ficcin. [...] Una novela ingeniosay oscura, que es un recordatorio de cunto tiene que cambiar el mundo en aras de la verdadera igualdad. Press Association
Nunca conocers a un personaje ms inquebrantable que Elizabeth Zott. Un libro nico con grandes lecciones de vida. Woman
Un triunfo. Daily Mail
Una fbula feminista triunfadora.
The Telegraph
Una serie de hilos trenzados de forma maravillosa. [...] Un excelente experimento, peculiar y alentador. The Atlantic
Uno de los libros ms buscados y comentados del ao. Vogue Italia
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Genre: Historical Fiction Read: March 2023
I don’t typically like this sort of genre, but I must say, I loved this from beginning to end.
It’s every single emotion written into one book. It captures the era perfectly and hones in on the assumptions and blatant sexism women endured in this time, however, it’s not all bad. The people Elizabeth Zott meets throughout her story who rally behind her is so heartwarming. Elizabeth is quite simply fabulous, I love her and wish she was real so I could meet her! Equally amazing is her daughter Mad and dog Six-Thirty.
Overall, I think the author did an amazing job with this! I’m always a sucker for strong female characters, and Elizabeth Zott has topped every expectation. ( )
Despite Elizabeth being a bit of an unlikable character (the pretentious use of chemical terminology in place of common vernacular/labels was ridiculous), the graphic on page rape and sexual assault scenes, the unbelievable bits (my 3.5 year old could read and write but ain’t nobody believes a 4 year old is reading and comprehending complex Russian literature), and the other problematic parts, I actually really enjoyed this.
I liked the writing style and a lot of the other characters. There was a lovely found family aspect and the romance was gut wrenching and beautiful - the grief hit me in the feels hard. I liked the feminist aspects and pacing also. ( )
This is somewhere between a 3 and a 4 for me--and I went back and forth on how to rate it. At the beginning I was underwhelmed, but the story grew on me as I listened to it. It's set in the 1960s I believe--at a time when women scientists were few and women in most workplaces dealt with sexual harassment. What I liked: *Elizabeth Zott--a female in chemistry at a time when there were probably few women chemists in the United States *That Elizabeth didn't dumb down her cooking show for the female audience but believed that they could understand complex chemical concepts--and for encouraging women to follow their dreams even if their skill set fell outside what the norms for women at the time were. *SixThirty (the dog). I just fell in love with him from the time he was introduced. What I didn't like: *Much as I do feel Calvin and Elizabeth were soulmates--I didn't like that they never got married (Elizabeth seemed opposed to marriage)--and I didn't like that they were intimate outside of marriage. We don't really know if Elizabeth's pregnancy would have changed their relationship status. *Sexist attitudes: Elizabeth's professor, Elizabeth's boss at Hastings, Mrs. Mudford Etc. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For my mother, Mary Swallow Garmus
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Back in 1961, when women wore shirtwaist dresses and joined garden clubs and drove legions of children around in seatbeltless cars without giving a second thought; back before anyone knew there’d even be a sixties movement, much less one that it’s participants would spend the next sixty years chronicling: back when the big wars were over and the secret wars had just begun and people were starting to think and believe everything was possible, the thirty-year-old mother of Madeline Zott rose before dawn every morning and felt certain of just one thing: her life was over.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
"Look," he said, "life has never been fair, and yet you continue to operate as if it is—as if once you get a few wrongs straightened out, everything else will fall into place. They won't. You want my advice?" And before she could say no, he added, "Don't work the system. Outsmart it."
If relationships are a puzzle, then theirs was solved from the get-go—as if someone shook out the box and watched from above as each separate piece landed exactly right, slipping one into the other, fully interlocked, into a picture that made perfect sense. They made other couples sick.
Thus the topic of family was like a cordoned-off room on a historic home tour.
"Call it a family tradition. Dying in accidents."
"No, I mean, was she also very religious?" Elizabeth hesitated. "Only if you count greed as a religion."
"People like my father preach love but are filled with hate."
"When I was a kid," Calvin said quietly, "I used to tell myself every day was new. That anything could happen."
Last week she'd peeked in on Mad during naptime and found the child sitting up in her crib explaining something in earnest to Six-Thirty. Elizabeth had hung back, watching in wonder as the baby, wobbling back and forth like a bowling pin threatening to topple, waved her hands as she chattered a steady stream of consonants and vowels strung together haphazardly, like laundry on a line, but delivered with the kind of passion that made it clear she was an expert in this area.
Having a baby, Elizabeth realized, was a little like living with a visitor from a distant planet. There was a certain amount of give and take as the visitor learned your ways and you learned theirs, but gradually their ways faded and your ways stuck. Which she found regrettable. Because unlike adults, her visitor never tired of even the smallest discovery; always saw the magic in the ordinary.
"By the way, I've been meaning to ask: Why do you think so many people believe in texts written thousands of years ago? And why does it seem the more supernatural, unprovable, improbable, and ancient the source of these texts, the more people believe them?"
The room filled with a thick silence, the weight of her ridiculous dream hanging like too-wet laundry on a windless day.
"He not only knew I belonged, he also knew I was onto something. The truth is, he stole my research. Published it and passed it off as his own." Roth's eyes widened. "I quit the same day." "Why didn't you tell the publication?" he said. "Why didn't you demand credit?" Elizabeth looked at Roth as if he lived on some other planet.
"Imagine if all men took women seriously. Education would change. The workforce would revolutionize. Marriage counselors would go out of business."
"When women understand these basic concepts, they can begin to see the false limits that have been created for them." "You mean by men." "I mean by artificial cultural and religious policies that put men in the highly unnatural role of single-sex leadership."
"I agree that society leaves much to be desired, but when it comes to religion, I tend to think it humbles us—teaches us our place in the world." "Really?" she said, surprised. "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; that ultimately, we're not to blame for the way things are; that to improve things, we should pray. But the truth is, we are very much responsible for the badness in the world. And we have the power to fix it." "But surely you're not suggesting that humans can fix the universe." "I'm speaking of fixing us, Mr. Roth—our mistakes. Nature works on a higher intellectual plane. We can learn more, we can go further, but to accomplish this, we must throw open the doors. Too many brilliant minds are kept from scientific research thanks to ignorant biases like gender and race. It infuriates me and it should infuriate you. Science has big problems to solve: famine, disease, extinction. And those who purposefully close the door to others using self-serving, outdated cultural notions are not only dishonest, they're knowingly lazy."
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Nmero 1 en las listas de The New York Times y The Sunday Times
Mejor libro del ao segn The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Mail on Sunday, The New York TimesThe Washington Post y NPR. Ganador del Goodreads Choice Award
Descubre a la novela que ha encandilado a los lectores de todo el mundo!
Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y estrella a su pesar del programa de cocina de televisin ms seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada de cido actico con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que su xito aumenta lo hacen tambin sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no slo est enseando a las mujeres a cocinar sino tambin desafindolas a alterar el orden establecido.
Lecciones de qumica es una novela original y adictiva que desentraa de manera inteligente y entretenida la espinosa cuestin de la igualdad de gnero y la necesidad de ser uno mismo.
Reseas:
Ingenioso, hilarante por momentos, vehemente, surrealista en ocasiones. El Trampa 22 del temprano feminismo.
Stephen King
Se llama tenacidad [y] se llama xito: Lecciones de qumica (Salamandra) se ha convertido en fenmeno en muchos pases y pronto ser una serie de televisin.
Berna Gonzlez Harbour, El Pas
Pocas veces ocurre que un debut cause tanto furor.
Lara Gmez Ruiz, La Vanguardia
Una historia palpitante y original sobre la esperanza y la fidelidad a uno mismo. Para rerse a carcajadas, y llena de vida, generosidad y valenta. Rachel Joyce
De vez en cuando aparece una primera novela en medio de una rfaga de exageraciones y grandes acuerdos televisivos, y antes del primer captulo lanzas un puo al aire porque, por una vez, todo est completamente justificado. Una historia pulida, divertida y que invita a la reflexin. Escrita con tan buen pulso narrativo y frases tan elegantes que cuesta creer que se trate de un debut. The Observer
Una trama muy bien hilvanada, dilogos vibrantes e irnico sentido del humor. Una historia absorbente con villanos odiosos y tipos adorables. Una escritura brillante que es una bocanada de aire fresco.
Sunday Express
Una voz firme, una herona inolvidable e historias de amor verosmiles. [...]Garmus logra encantar al lector creando un conjunto indeleble de personajes obstinados e idiosincrsicos. The Washington Post
Original y refrescante, Elizabeth Zott es uno de esos personajes singulares e imborrables que tanto cuesta hallar en la ficcin. [...] Una novela ingeniosay oscura, que es un recordatorio de cunto tiene que cambiar el mundo en aras de la verdadera igualdad. Press Association
Nunca conocers a un personaje ms inquebrantable que Elizabeth Zott. Un libro nico con grandes lecciones de vida. Woman
Un triunfo. Daily Mail
Una fbula feminista triunfadora.
The Telegraph
Una serie de hilos trenzados de forma maravillosa. [...] Un excelente experimento, peculiar y alentador. The Atlantic
Uno de los libros ms buscados y comentados del ao. Vogue Italia
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Read: March 2023
I don’t typically like this sort of genre, but I must say, I loved this from beginning to end.
It’s every single emotion written into one book. It captures the era perfectly and hones in on the assumptions and blatant sexism women endured in this time, however, it’s not all bad. The people Elizabeth Zott meets throughout her story who rally behind her is so heartwarming. Elizabeth is quite simply fabulous, I love her and wish she was real so I could meet her! Equally amazing is her daughter Mad and dog Six-Thirty.
Overall, I think the author did an amazing job with this! I’m always a sucker for strong female characters, and Elizabeth Zott has topped every expectation. (