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Woestijnbergen
Woestijnbergen is met lof overladen en gekozen tot een van de beste boeken van het jaar volgens o.a. The New York Times. Een roman over het zoeken naar en het vinden van geluk, de waarde van vriendschap en houden van jezelf Millets nieuwe roman is het verhaal van Gil, een veertiger die van huis uit zeer rijk is en gebukt gaat onder het gevoel dat hij nooit ergens écht zijn best voor heeft hoeven doen. Zijn beslissing om van New York naar Arizona te verhuizen en daar helemaal naartoe te wandelen – een tocht van ruim vierduizend kilometer – verrast iedereen die hem kent. Nadat hij is aangekomen, trekken er nieuwe buren in het huis met glazen wanden naast het zijne en raakt zijn leven gaandeweg verweven met dat van hen. Naarmate hun vriendschap zich ontwikkelt, durft Gil zich ook steeds meer open te stellen voor nieuwe dingen. In dit warme, met droge humor geschreven en filosofische verhaal over Gils onverwachte toewijding aan dit gezin, onderzoekt Millet het geheimzinnige gebied waar het zelf eindigt en de gemeenschap begint – en wat één mens kan doen in een wereld die wordt geteisterd door noodsituaties. Woestijnbergen is zowel scherp als teder, een emotioneel ontroerende, intellectueel resonerende roman die de vraag stelt: waar leeft de hoop in de schaduw van existentiële dreiging? In de pers ‘Een mooi ingetogen geschreven verhaal over een man die verzoent, die toont dat je hoopvol mag zijn in een wereld die je bedreigt.’**** De Limburger ‘Deze tedere en invoelende roman laat je met dezelfde wonderlijke lichtheid achter als Forrest Gump.’ Zin Magazine ‘Millet keert terug met een briljant overlevingsverhaal. Deze geweldige en dynamische auteur is op de top van haar kunnen.’ Publishers Weekly (starred review) ‘Woestijnbergen luidt een nieuwe fase in de carrière van Millet in. De ruimtelijkheid van de stijl maakt het gevoel van verlies rijker en de gestelde vragen – wat is moreel handelen, hoe kunnen we elkaar het beste helpen – tegelijk eenvoudiger en diepgaander.’ New York Times Magazine ‘Millet is uitzonderlijk bekwaam in wat ze doet.’ The Guardian
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Fair Ones
Lydia Millet's dialogue-driven, fast-moving double novel Fair Ones follows two Brooklyn women in their forties reeling from the sudden and baffling death of their friend Claire. Fair, Mara's account, opens in the wake of initial shock as she and Jen try come to grips with the enigma of Claire's killing. Ones, told from Jen's point of view, picks up a year later as she and Mara wrestle with new relationships and old secrets. In this vibrant, funny-sad fiction of companionship and solitude, Millet dazzles with dry wit and sharp prose. The narrators' inner and outer conversations, and their ongoing entanglement with the memory of Claire, explore the ways we create and define ourselves through others. Fair Ones is a love song to the intricate annoyances of families both chosen and unchosen-and to the banality, bombast, and humble beauties of midlife friendships.
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
July 16 1945. The world's first atomic mushroom cloud rises above New Mexico desert. At the moment of detonation the men responsible for the bomb the physicists Robert Oppenheimer Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard suddenly find themselves thrown forward in time to the year 2003.As they adjust to life in the 'future' Ann a librarian and her doting husband Ben befriend them. How the charismatic time-travelling scientists affect both modern America and the marriage of these two ordinary people is the subject of Lydia Millet's heroically mischievous tragicomedy.Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
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Prendere o lasciare
Nina è un'agente immobiliare di Los Angeles. Il suo lavoro è vendere abitazioni di lusso ad acquirenti capricciosi e imprevedibili, ma anche soddisfare le esigenze dei proprietari, che abbandonano la loro casa sperando di liberarsi dai fantasmi di una vita. Conosce così un presunto dittatore africano che all'improvviso cerca di annegarsi in piscina; un adolescente rabbioso che si fa beccare mentre guarda un porno; una donna abbandonata dal marito, convinta che ci siano degli gnomi pronti a riparare tutto quel che non funziona nelle stanze della sua villa. E in mezzo a una giostra irresistibile di personaggi, Nina entra ed esce da case che diventano specchi delle vite degli altri, scrigni di confidenze e verità nascoste, finché non viene toccata da un amore improvviso che la cambia per sempre. "Prendere o lasciare" è un romanzo a quadri, che intreccia vite di uomini e donne colti in bilico tra l'arrendersi al destino e lottare per i propri sogni. Lydia Millet racconta storie traboccanti di realismo e poesia, dove perfino l'esperienza più crudele trova riscatto nella compassione. E con uno sguardo ricco di ironia e tenerezza ci rivela che accettare il caos è l'unica strada per trovare la felicità e un posto nel mondo da chiamare casa. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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I figli del diluvio
Un¿estate, un gruppo di famiglie si riunisce in una villa a due passi dall¿oceano per trascorrere insieme una lunga vacanza. Per madri e padri significa passare il tempo tra vizi e alcol, in un infinito happy hour; mentre i figli, ragazzi e ragazze dai sette ai diciassette anni, lasciati a loro stessi, creano una comunità e si nascondono l¿un l¿altro l¿identità dei genitori, cercando di non essere collegati in alcun modo a quegli adulti imbarazzanti. Ma l¿arrivo di un diluvio devastante sconvolge i loro piani. Il piccolo Jack, ispirato da una Bibbia illustrata, decide di salvare più animali possibile; sua sorella Eve e gli altri ragazzini lo aiutano, raccogliendo viveri nelle case sugli alberi. Ma la tempesta infuria, distrugge la villa e le città, e per salvarsi i ragazzi sono costretti ad abbandonare i genitori, depressi e disorientati, per ritrovarsi da soli in un territorio caotico e irriconoscibile. Ironico e drammatico, crudo e fiabesco, "I figli del diluvio" è un romanzo vertiginoso, che parla di una società fragile che corre ciecamente verso il disastro, dove gli adulti hanno perso ogni visione e dove la speranza può esistere solo nella radicale innocenza dei bambini, che si affidano alla Natura trovando nuovi linguaggi, nuovi sguardi, nuove risorse per reinventare il mondo. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
€ 31,50 -
Atavists
From Lydia Millet-"the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago Tribune)-comes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples and loners in their collisions, confessions and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses and medieval role-playing festivals. The various "-ists" who people these linked stories-from futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologists-include a professor who's morbidly fixated on an old friend's Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incel's fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbours after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner father obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his garden.
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We Loved It All
Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of non-fiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of non-human beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for endangered species at the Center for Biological Diversity, Millet offers intimate portraits of what she calls "the others"-the extraordinary animals with whom we still share the world, along with those already lost. Humans, too, fill this book, as Millet touches on the lives of her world-travelling parents, fascinating partners and friends and colourful relatives, from diplomats to nut farmers-all figure in the complex tapestry each of us weaves with the surrounding world. Written in the tradition of Annie Dillard or Robert Macfarlane, We Loved It All is an incantatory work that will appeal to anyone concerned about the future of life on earth-including our own.
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Dinosaurs
Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since A Children's Bible (ISBN 978 0 393 86738 1) ("a blistering little classic"-Ron Charles, Washington Post), tells the story of an Arizona man's relationship with the family next door, whose house has one wall made entirely out of glass. The story delivers attraction and love, friendship and grief. But Millet also evokes the uncanny. Through close observation of human and animal life in the desert, she captures the daunting scale of human society without losing sight of the real difference one person can make in the world. Written with humour and benevolence, Dinosaurs asks big questions. Can a person be good? Can a man be good? Compellingly told, emotionally moving, intellectually rich, Dinosaurs may be Millet's finest novel yet.
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De laatste zomer
Een prachtig verhaal over een groep kinderen die proberen te overleven in een wereld die verwoest dreigt te worden – alarmerend actueel, meesterlijk verteld Lydia Millets sublieme nieuwe roman volgt een groep van twaalf kinderen die met hun families op vakantie zijn in een groot landhuis aan een meer. De jongeren zetten zich af tegen hun ouders – die hun dagen slijten in een walm van drank, drugs en seks – en voelen zich tegelijkertijd verwaarloosd en onderdrukt. Wanneer een verwoestende storm het zonnige landgoed dreigt te verwoesten, besluiten de leiders van de groep – onder wie Eve – weg te lopen en nemen ze de jongere kinderen mee op een gevaarlijke tocht door de apocalyptische chaos in de buitenwereld. De rampzalige gebeurtenissen om hen heen beginnen steeds meer te lijken op de verhalen in de versleten kinderbijbel die het broertje van Eve overal met zich meedraagt en zij zet alles op alles om hem in leven te houden. De laatste zomer is een profetisch, hartverscheurend verhaal over de afstand tussen twee generaties en een beklijvend visioen van wat ons te wachten staat. In de pers ‘Millet is een van de meest fascinerende romanschrijvers van vandaag.’ The Wall Street Journal Magazine ‘Pijnlijk scherp en vol donkere humor.’ Los Angeles Times ‘Deze fantastische roman begint als een generatiekomedie en wordt steeds duisterder naarmate klimaatrampen zich voor beginnen te doen en de maatschappij uit elkaar begint te brokkelen. Maar Millet blijft lichtvoetig; in deze tijd van grote ontreddering, zo zegt ze, krijgen onze fundamentele mythen een nieuwe, hoopvolle betekenis.’ The New York Times
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A Children's Bible
Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel-her first since the National Book Award-longlisted Sweet Lamb of Heaven- follows a group of eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their parents at a lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their elders, who pass their days in a hedonistic stupor, the children are driven out into a chaotic landscape after a great storm descends. The story's narrator, Eve, devotes herself to the safety of her beloved little brother as events around them begin to mimic scenes from his cherished picture Bible. Millet, praised as "unnervingly talented" (San Francisco Chronicle), has produced a heartbreaking story of the legacy of climate change denial. Her parable of the coming generational divide offers a lucid vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelation.
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How the Dead Dream
An only child in a typical middle-American family T is unusual only in his interest in and talent for making money. As his peers go through teen crises T accumulates and turns himself into a successful businessman.But T's material life begins to change after he adopts a dog meets a girl and takes his mother in after she splits up with his father. But when events conspire to leave T isolated again he starts to lose faith in people and civilisation and turns to nature instead developing a strange and powerful obsession with endangered animals...
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Sweet Lamb of Heaven
Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists-and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife's world in ways she never could have imagined. A double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its characters-and for all of us.
€ 25,00