Новинки Карен Джой Фаулер

Best Book of the Year
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From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.

In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth--breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one--is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.

As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country's leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy.

Booth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make, and break, a family.

Семейство Куков, когда-то благополучное, окружает некая тайна. Розмари, студентка университета, вспоминает, что в детстве была удивительно общительным, даже болтливым ребенком, но теперь замкнута, с трудом вступает в контакт с людьми, ее мучают странные комплексы. Ее старший брат Лоуэлл давно ушел из дома. Мать пережила тяжелую депрессию, отец, известный ученый, прекратил работу над важным проектом. И читатель долго не знает, кто же такая Ферн, о которой Розмари пишет: "Она была мой близнец, мое смешное кривое зеркало, моя неугомонная вторая половина". Только найдя Ферн, вернувшись к ней, члены семьи Куков могут наконец вновь обрести себя.

Amerykański bestseller, który znalazł się w finale Bookera i otrzymał prestiżową nagrodę Faulknera. Przetłumaczony na blisko 30 języków. Świetnie przyjęty zarówno w Stanach Zjednoczonych, jak i w Europie.
Karen Fowler, autorka słynnego „Klubu miłośników Jane Austen" tym razem napisała zaskakującą historię rodzinną. Nic w tej powieści nie jest oczywiste. Pojawiające się wciąż nowe fakty, zwroty akcji, narastające napięcie, a przy tym świetny literacki język sprawiają, że to książka, od której trudno się oderwać. Powieść-patchwork, poszarpana jak pamięć.
Pod wrażeniem lektury była m.in. słynna amerykańska pisarka Ursula K. Le Guin: To opowieść o niezwykłej rodzinie, w której wszyscy kochają się i równocześnie okrutnie ranią. Mocna, głęboka i poruszająca historia.

The Sweetheart Season

A brilliantly comic and intelligent literary mystery from Karen Joy Fowler, the bestselling Man Booker shortlisted author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her own. Who stole a small and highly valuable object from Addison's kitchen? Why is Rima corresponding with an obsessive fan, using someone else's family name? Most importantly: what exactly was the relationship between Addison and Rima's father, and why did Addison name a murderer after him in one of her novels?

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of Sister Noon, Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, The Jane Austen Book Club, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and the short story collection Black Glass. She is a PEN/Faulkner prize finalist, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014 and lives in California.

Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. So now she's telling her story; a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice. It's funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it, and if, when you're telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern - it's pretty hard to resist - don't worry.

This title is written by the author of worldwide bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club: you can't choose your family, but they can make choices for you. Big, life-defining choices. Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. So now she's telling…

Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind. Now her adored older brother is a fugitive, wanted by the FBI for domestic terrorism. And her once lively mother is a shell of her former self, her clever and imperious father now a distant, brooding man. And Fern, Rosemary’s beloved sister, her accomplice in all their childhood mischief? Fern’s is a fate the family, in all their innocence, could…

When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort the ugliest woman he could imagine away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.

После смерти отца, журналиста-международника, тридцатилетняя Рима Лэнсилл переезжает к своей крестной, знаменитой писательнице Аддисон Эрли, в ее старый викторианский особняк «Гнездо», стоящий на высоком утесе с видом на Тихий океан. Самое известное творение Эрли, частный детектив Максвелл Лейн, давно зажило собственной жизнью: письма поклонников адресованы не писательнице, а Максвеллу, ему посвящены многочисленные веб-сайты, о нем пишутся нескромные фанфики. Риму же гораздо больше волнует не то, когда наконец выйдет новая книга о Максвелле, но почему убийцу в одном из предыдущих романов Аддисон звали так же, как ее отца?

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

The sinister and the magical are always lurking just below the surface: for a mother who invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People"; for Edwin Booth in "Edwin's Ghost," haunted by his fame as "America's Hamlet" and his brother's terrible actions; for Norah, a rebellious teenager facing torture in "The Pelican Bar" as she confronts Mama Strong, the sadistic boss of a rehabilitation facility; for the narrator recounting her descent in "What I Didn't See."

With clear and insightful prose, Fowler's stories measure the human capacities for hope and despair, brutality and kindness. This collection, which includes two Nebula Award winners, is sure to delight readers, even as it pulls the rug out from underneath them.

Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love.

Полгода пять женщин и один мужчина каждый месяц собираются, чтобы обсудить очередной роман Джейн Остен. Шесть книг, шесть участников книжного клуба, шесть месяцев. Пока существует книжный клуб, испытываются браки, завязываются романы, неудачные пары понимают, что созданы друг для друга, и внезапно случается любовь. Или, быть может, это всего лишь сюжеты для следующих романов - только чьих? Карен Джой Фаулер? Джейн Остен? Кто теперь разберет? Калифорния, XXI век. Казалось бы, при чем тут классик английской литературы? Но два столетия назад Остен писала о том же. Прошло двести лет. В "Книжном клубе Джейн Остен" Карен Джой Фаулер прямо…

In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse

Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. When the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her. It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature. Loosely based in…

The Washington Territory, Winter, 1873: the tail end of the Year of the Monkey. The woman dressed all in black who appeared without warning in the forest cleaning was of indeterminate age, small and hugely ugly. A few coarse black hairs sprouted beneath a nose that was big even for a white woman. Her hair was cropped, her dress torn, and she was babbling in some incomprehensible tongue. Chin Ah Kin thought she might be a ghost lover---an immortal sent by the gods to enchant him. His more practical uncle thought otherwise: A white woman in a Chinese railway workers' camp could only be trouble. He ordered Chin to return her to the white…