Лора Сегал — новинки

Five close friends in their 90s meet – as they have for decades –for their monthly ‘ladies’ lunch’ to puzzle over and laugh at the enigmas and affronts of ageing. When one of their number is placed unhappily in a home the others conspire to spring her.
Lore Segal’s witty yet poignant short story, Ladies’ Lunch, appeared in the New Yorker in 2017, when she herself turned ninety. It was followed by four sequels. For this sparkling collection, Segal has returned to her group of erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians in Manhattan to create a novella from the linked stories, offering startling insights into friendship and mortality.
In the book’s Other Stories, Segal includes tales from her acclaimed and prizewinning oeuvre to illuminate the hinterland of her characters – one of whom, like her, was a kindertransport refugee.
Beautifully crafted and profound, these stories distil the spirit of one of America’s great authors to show us what a long life might bring.

"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature . . ." -The New York Times Beloved New Yorker writer Lore Segal, at ninety-five years old, is a national treasure. Working at the height of her powers, in this story collection she turns her gimlet eye and compassionate humor on aging and life in the slow lane. From the master of the short short comes a collection of sixteen new stories featuring old friends who have loved and lunched together for over forty years. These erudite, sharp-minded nonagenarians offer startling insights into friendship, family and aging. Can the group organize a visit to one of their number in her new, and detested, assisted living situation? Is this a fabulous party with old friends, or a funeral reception? And does who was sleeping with whom, way back when, still matter? In story after story, Segal's voice is always hilarious and urbane, heartbreaking and profound, keen and utterly unsentimental, as she tackles aging's affronts.

Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was 10 year old Lore Segal.
For the next seven years, she lived as a refugee in other people's houses, moving from the Orthodox Levines in Liverpool, to the staunchly working class Hoopers in Kent, to the genteel Miss Douglas and her sister in Guildford. Few understo

В романе американской писательницы Лоры Сегал «Полкоролевства» врачи нью-йоркской больницы «Ливанские кедры» замечают, что среди их пациентов с загадочной быстротой распространяется болезнь Альцгеймера. В чем причина? В старении, как считают врачи, или в кознях террористов, замысливших таким образом приблизить конец света, как предполагает отошедший от дел ученый Джо Бернстайн. Чтобы докопаться до истины, Джо Бернстайн внедряет в несколько кафкианский мир больницы группу своих друзей с их уже взрослыми детьми. «Полкоролевства» — уморительно смешной и вместе с тем пронзительно горький рассказ о том, как живут, любят и умирают старики в…

Книга американской писательницы Лоры Сегал "У чужих людей" основана на личном опыте: в 1938 году девочку из благополучной еврейской семьи отправили на детском транспорте - "поезде спасения" - из Австрии, где стали хозяйничать нацисты, в Англию, откуда она попала в Доминиканскую Республику, затем в США. История ее жизни у различных благодетелей, в другой среде, другой стране рассказана практически с документальной точностью, что делает это свидетельство уникальным.

The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare’s Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal’s stunning new book evolved from seven short stories that originally appeared in the New Yorker (including the O. Henry Prize–winning “The Reverse Bug”).

Ilka Weisz has accepted a teaching position at the Concordance Institute, a think tank in Connecticut, reluctantly leaving her New York circle of friends. After the comedy of her struggle to meet new people, Ilka comes to embrace, and be embraced by, a new set of acquaintances, including the institute’s director, Leslie Shakespeare, and his wife, Eliza. Through a series of memorable dinner parties, picnics, and Sunday brunches, Segal evokes the subtle drama and humor of the outsider’s loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, the bliss of being in love, and the strangeness of our behavior in the face of other people’s deaths.

A magnificent and deeply moving work, Shakespeare’s Kitchen marks the long–awaited return of a writer at the height of her powers.