Лучшие книги Lidia Yuknavitch

Мемуары Лидии Юкнавич «Хронология воды» громко прозвучали на американской книжной сцене в 2011 году и принесли писательнице известность и признание. Отпуская воспоминания разных лет в свободный дрейф, Юкнавич, едва не ставшая профессиональной пловчихой, рассказывает историю выживания и преодоления травмы: от детства в дисфункциональной семье, отмеченного насилием со стороны отца, сквозь залитые алкоголем годы турбулентной юности, когда за крушением надежд последовали эксперименты с веществами и отношениями, к становлению в качестве писательницы и матери вопреки утратам.

Лидия Юкнавич пишет яростно, на одном дыхании, без прикрас выкладывая перед читательницами свой травматичный опыт, отношения с отцовскими и материнскими фигурами (важную роль в ее жизни сыграли Кен Кизи и Кэти Акер), телесные переживания. Откровенная, горькая, но вселяющая надежду книга о том, как выплыть, как проложить свой путь к устойчивости и свету.

Экранизация этих мемуаров станет режиссерским дебютом Кристен Стюарт.

Лидия Юкнавич обладает даром рассказывать истории уязвимых людей, жизнь которых полна потрясений.

Недалекое будущее, из-за глобального потепления уровень океана поднялся, и на уцелевшие участки суши стекаются беженцы. Лайсве потеряла мать и брата и пытается спасти тех, кем она еще дорожит. Она путешествует сквозь воду и время, общается с черепахой, собирает странные вещи. На её пути встречаются строители статуи Свободы, узники подводной тюрьмы, ребенок Индиго, женщина с протезом вместо ноги, люди самых разных возрастов и национальностей. Сможет ли Лайсве, блуждая в зеркалящих друг друга мирах, изменить ход истории?

Удастся ли вырваться из ранящей антиутопии и найти путь в будущее без границ и социальных иерархий? И есть ли дом для всех, кто понимает, как прекрасна общая мечта о свободе?

A self-defined misfit makes a powerful case for not fitting in—for recognizing the beauty, and difficulty, in forging an original path.

A misfit is a person who missed fitting in, a person who fits in badly, or this: a person who is poorly adapted to new situations and environments. It’s a shameful word, a word no one typically tries to own. Until now.

Ida has a secret: she is in love with her best friend. But any time she gets close to intimacy, Ida faints or loses her voice. She needs a shrink. Or so her philandering father thinks. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, Siggy, Ida - and alter-ego Dora - hatch a plan to secretly film him. But when the film goes viral, Ida finds herself targeted by unethical hackers. Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freuds famous case study, retold and revamped through Doras point-of-view. Yuknavitchs Dora is radical and unapologetic - you wont have met a character quite like her before.

A group of rebels have united to save a world ravaged by war, violence and greed. Joan is their leader. Jean de Men is their foe. The future of humanity is being rewritten.Lidia Yuknavitch's mesmerising novel sees Joan of Arc's story reborn for the near future. It is a genre-defying masterpiece that may well rewire your brain.

In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl flying toward the lens, fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. The image wins acclaim and prizes, becoming an icon for millions—and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer’s best friend, who has suffered a devastating tragedy of her own.

As the writer plunges into a suicidal depression, her filmmaker husband enlists several friends, including a fearless bisexual poet and an ingenuous performance artist, to save her by rescuing the unknown girl and bringing her to the United States. And yet, as their plot unfolds, everything we know about the story comes into question: What does the writer really want? Who is controlling the action? And what will happen when these two worlds—east and west, real and virtual—collide?

Book DescriptionWith an intelligence that scalds every pretense and surface, Lidia Yuknavitch's camera pans across subjects as varied as Keanu Reeves and Siberian prison laborers. She zooms in on drug addiction, crime, sex of all flavors, trauma,

Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud’s famous case study—retold and revamped through Dora's point of view, with shotgun blasts of dark humor and sexual play.

Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, whom she nicknames Siggy, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida, whose alter ego is Dora, and her small posse of pals engage in "art attacks." Ida’s in love with her friend Obsidian, but when she gets close to intimacy, she faints or loses her voice. Ida and her friends hatch a plan to secretly film Siggy and make an experimental art film. But something goes wrong at a crucial moment—at a nearby hospital Ida finds her father suffering a heart attack. While Ida loses her voice, a rough cut of her experimental film has gone viral, and unethical media agents are hunting her down. A chase ensues in which everyone wants what Ida has.