This book, Mark Z. Danielewski's experimental first novel, has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, which aims to recogise and reward new writing across fiction and non-fiction. A special report featuring reviews, extracts and online resources for all the titles, plus talkboards and an online poll can be found [online].

Years ago, when
was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies—the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.
Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.
The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller’s tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.

The best-selling author of the million-copy classic House of Leaves returns with a magisterial, page-turning epic, about two friends determined to rescue a pair of horses set for slaughter.

While folks still like to focus on the crimes that shocked the small city of Orvop, Utah, back in the fall of 1982, not to mention the trials that followed, far more remember the adventure that took place beyond municipal lines in mountains ready to shrug even the bravest from their backs, as one Orvop local would put, with another characterizing the astonishing journey as crazy as it was foolish as it still is just plain beyond imaginin. But them kids went for it anyway.

Not that such daring was entirely unexpected considering how some of those involved included the likes of young Tom Gatestone, already a bit of an Orvop legend, and his friend Kalin March, new to the area, the two of them takin it upon themselves to rescue a couple of neglected horses from the Porch paddocks on Willow and Oak.

Who knows what would have happened if they hadn’t?

For sure no one expected the dead to rise but they did. For sure no one expected the mountain to fall but it did. For sure no one expected an act of courage so great, and likewise so appalling, that it still staggers the heart and mind of anyone who knows anything about the Katanogos massif to say nothing of Pillars Meadow.

As one Orvop high-school teacher would describe that extraordinary feat days before she died: Fer sure, no one expected Kalin March to tell Old Porch: You get what you deserve when you ride with cowards.

In this sweeping tale of mythic proportions, populated by extraordinary characters, the ghosts of the American West, and bursting with unexpected humor, Danielewski tells a masterful story of determination, perseverance, and humanity in the face of long odds and adverse fate.

Will Navidson, un famoso fotoperiodista premiado con el Pulitzer, se traslada con su familia a una casa en el entorno rural de Virginia en un intento de salvar su matrimonio, seriamente perjudicado por sus viajes continuos y su adicción al trabajo. Además de Navidson, la familia está compuesta por la hermosa ex-modelo Karen Green y los dos hijos pequeños de ambos. Muy pronto, Will descubre que la casa presenta una anomalía arquitectónica singular: su espacio interior es ligeramente más grande que el que debería ocupar según sus dimensiones exteriores. Este es el arranque de "El expediente Navidson", un fascinante documento que narra los sucesos acaecidos en la casa de Ash Tree Lane, es decir "La casa de hojas".

Will Navidson tratará de averiguar qué secreto esconde "La casa de hojas", al mismo tiempo que procurará poner a salvo a su familia. Un viaje para el que recabará la ayuda de todos los medios a su alcance, incluida la de su hermano gemelo Tom, un profesor universitario y hasta toda una expedición de espeleólogos.

Mientras Will y sus seres queridos se enfrentan a los peligros de esa casa encantada, un joven tatuador de Los Ángeles, el carismático y tierno Johnny Truant, malvive y quema las noches a una velocidad vertiginosa de la mano de su inseparable escudero, Lude. Las historias de Truant y Navidson se entrelazarán gracias a un hallazgo que cambiará la vida de todos los personajes inolvidables que atraviesan esta monumental novela.

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