Tag archieven: Amerikaanse schrijfster

Jennifer Neal – My Pisces Heart

Jennifer Neal My Pisces Heart recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de memoir. Op 22 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Catapult het nieuwe boek met een memoir van de zwarte queer immigrant Jennifer Neal. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jennifer Heart My Pisces Heart recensie, review en informatie

  • “This is both a gorgeously written memoir of a life well-traveled, and a deeply researched inquiry into the ways that race, gender, sexuality, and history inform one’s ability to move about the world at all.” (James Factora, them)
  • “A detailed, nuanced, researched, historically important account of systemic racism in the many places the author has sought to make a home. This relatable, important book stretches readers’ understanding of nationalism into globalism and of home into a complex concept for those whose homes create racialized harm . . . Readers of Neal’s book will be challenged in the best of ways..” (Booklist)

Jennifer Neal My Pisces Heart

My Pisces Heart

A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents

  • Auteur: Jennifer Neal (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Capapult
  • Verschijnt: 22 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / eboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van Jennifer Neal

With heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer woman as she searches the world for a place of security and acceptance to call home.

I’ve never seen home as a permanent concept; it is an image crafted from untempered glass that threatens to shatter with lack of care.

Jennifer Neal was born in the United States to a family that moved continuously for their own survival and well-being—from the Great Migration to the twenty-first century. As an adult, she has continued to travel the world as a Black queer woman, across two decades and four countries—from Japan to the US and then Australia to Germany, where she has settled for now.

Throughout her moves, Neal threads her personal story of immigration with local Black histories and racial politics to provide context for her own experiences. The result is both a crucial examination of how racism plays a foundational role in modern-day immigration systems and a tender tribute to immigrants and their stories.

An unwavering interrogation of colonialism and policy, love and loss, hypocrisy and resistance, My Pisces Heart demands meaningful conversation about not only the ways in which we live with our histories, but also how they live through us—urging an honest dialogue on why the West continues to grapple with its past and visualize its future.

Jennifer Neal is an American Australian author, artist, and occasional standup comedian. Her work has been published in NPR, PlayboyGay MagazineThe RootThe Erotic ReviewThe Cut, and many other publications. She is a MacDowell Fellow and Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist. My Pisces Heart is her second book.

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Joanne Greenberg – I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Joanne Greenberg I Never Promised You a Rose Garden recensie en informatie van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1964 die ze publiceerde onder het pseudoniem Hannah Green. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijfster Joanne Greenberg. De roman is in Nederlandse vertaling verschenen als Ik heb je nooit een rozentuin beloofd met als naam van de schrijfster Hannah Green. In 1977 is de roman uitgebracht als speelfilm onder de regie van Anthony Page.

Joanne Greenberg I Never Promised You a Rose Garden recensie, review en informatie

  • “A rare and wonderful insight into the dark kingdom of the mind.” (Chicago Tribune)
  • “Marvellous … a courage that is sometimes breathtaking.” (The New York Times Book Review)

Joanne Greenberg I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

  • Auteur: Joanne Greenberg (Verenigde Staten)
  • Pseudoniem: Hannah Green
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Eerste uitgave: 16 april 1964
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1964 van Joanne Greenberg alis Hannah Green

She fought them with her head and her teeth while the restraints were being tied, trying, doglike, to bite herself.

Sixteen-year-old Deborah’s identity is shattering, as she retreats further and further from the ‘normal’ world into her imaginary kingdom of Yr, a fantastical inner refuge both lush and horrifying. Sent to a psychiatric hospital, she must, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, try to find a way back. Joanne Greenberg’s fictionalized autobiography became a global bestseller on publication in 1964, and remains a wrenching account of mental illness.

Joanne Greenberg (12 September 1932, New York City) is the Hannah Green I Never Promised You a Rose Garden novel 1964 first editionauthor of nineteen books, including I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, first published under the pseudonym name Hannah Green.  She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1963 for her novel The King’s Persons. Her novel In This Sign was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie called Love Is Never Silent. Greenberg was a volunteer firefighter and paramedic for thirteen years.

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Chelsea Bieker – Madwoman

Chelsea Bieker Madwoman review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 18 september 2024 verschijnt bij Oneworld de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Chelsea Bieker Madwoman review, recensie en informatie

  • “Darkly funny, heart-smashing, and absolutely unforgettable, Madwoman is a masterpiece.” (Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch)
  • “A truly stunning read – this is my book of the year.” (Ella Berman)

Chelsea Bieker Madwoman

Madwoman

  • Auteur: Chelsea Bieker (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Uitgever: Oneworld
  • Verschijnt: 18 september 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Chelsea Bieker

An unexpected letter from her mother threatens to pull Clove back to a life she’s left behind, in this thrilling novel from an explosive new talent.

To the outside world, Clove has it all. Thanks to her lies, she’s landed the life of her dreams, complete with a kind, reliable husband, two adorable children, a stable family home. So what, if silencing the memories of her own abusive childhood means racking up a little credit card debt or obsessing about her wellness routine? Nothing to see here.

But then a letter arrives from a women’s prison in California – a letter that threatens to expose the secrets of a past she has worked so hard to hide. Soon, Clove will become caught up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the very people she thought she had outrun. No amount of shopping, green juice or meditation can help her avoid the defining day of her life forever.

Brave, hilarious and full of surprising twists, Madwoman is a story about violence, recovery, and Clove’s refusal to be defined by her worst experiences.

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Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit 1920 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Age of Innocence van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige  schrijfster Edith Wharton. De roman is in Nederlandse vertaling verschenen als De jaren van onschuld. In 1993 is de roman door de beroemde regisseur Martin Scorsese verfilmd met Daniel Day-Lewis en Michelle Pfeiffer in de hoofrollen.

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence recensie, review en informatie

  • “With uncharacteristic obtuseness, Wharton goes on to describe James’s profound puzzlement at her words – for the void that Wharton describes is, of course, not James’s but her own, and it is precisely where she has pruned the fringes of naturalism most ruthlessly that she achieves her most powerful and individual effects. Her strongest work.” (The New York Times)

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

  • Auteur: Edith Wharton (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek Amerikaanse roman uit 1920
  • Taal: Engels
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De jaren van onschuld
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1920 van Edith Wharton

The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society.

Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May’s cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence.

Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer’s life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.

Edith Wharton was born in New York City on January 24, 1862. Edith married Teddy Wharton, who was 12 years older. They lived a Edith Wharton The Age of Innocense novel from 1920 first editionlife of relative ease with homes in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Edith became a prolific writer and produced over 40 books in 40 years.

Edith divorced Teddy in 1912, having no immediate heirs, and never married again. She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and a full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novels became so popular that Ms. Wharton was able to live comfortably on her earnings the rest of her life. Edith continued to write until a stroke took her life on 11 August 1937 in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt,  France.

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Rainbow Rowell – Een laatste dans

Rainbow Rowell Een laatste dans recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 5 september 2024 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Boekerij de Nederlandse vertaling van de feelgood liefdesroman Slow Dance van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Rainbow Rowell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.

Rainbow Rowell Een laatste dans recensie en informatie

  • “Rainbow Rowell heeft een ongelooflijk talent om een emotionele tegenslag te verbergen in een lichte en romantische verhaallijn.” (Cosmopolitan)
  • “Dit feelgoodverhaal volgt Shiloh en Cary, beste vrienden die op hun late tienerjaren verliefd werden, maar uit elkaar gingen. Als ze hun dertiger jaren, bereiken, worden ze weer tot elkaar aangetrokken, maar zal hun geschiedenis van misverstanden een obstakel vormen? Ik vond dit geweldig vanwege de realistische weergave en de onvolmaakte, ingewikkelde personages.” (Good Housekeeping)
  • “Een boek dat een plezier is op zinsniveau, en op dat intieme niveau is er absoluut niks onorigineel of cliché aan de manier waarop Rowell denkt.” (Chicago Tribune)

Rainbow Rowell Een laatste dans

Een laatste dans

  • Auteur: Rainbow Rowell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse feelgoodroman
  • Origineel: Slow Dance (2024)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Jeannet Dekker
  • Uitgever: Boekerij
  • Verschijnt: 5 september 2024
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe feelgoodroman van Rainbow Rowell

In Een laatste dans waren Shiloh, Cary en Mikey beste vrienden – een onafscheidelijk trio in de jaren negentig. Het volwassen leven zat hen op de hielen, maar hun kameraadschap hield hen nog even vast in hun tiener­jaren. Ook delen Shiloh en Cary iets bijzonders: een verpletterende en allesverslindende eerste verliefdheid. Net op het moment dat ze zich realiseren dat hun gevoelens wederzijds zijn eindigt hun middelbareschooltijd en scheiden hun wegen.

Dertien jaar later heeft Shiloh net haar scheiding achter de rug, woont ze weer bij haar moeder en werkt ze bij het jeugdtheater in de stad waar ze is opgegroeid. Ze kan alleen maar denken aan de manier waarop haar leven mislukt is en de dromen die ze niet heeft waargemaakt. Cary is inmiddels in de voetsporen van zijn vader getreden, maar zelfs na een glansrijke militaire carrière kan hij alleen maar denken aan het meisje dat hij achterliet na dat ene glorieuze weekend samen, voordat alles voor altijd veranderde.

Als Mikey terugkeert voor zijn bruiloft, is een reünie onvermijdelijk. Gaat het Shiloh en Cary lukken om de weg naar elkaars hart terug te vinden of zullen de fouten uit hun verleden zich herhalen?

Graag zou ik je willen uitnodigen om deze prachtige roman te lezen en een recensie te schrijven. Mocht je interesse hebben, dan stuur ik je graag een recensie-exemplaar toe.

Rainbow Rowell (24 februari 1973, Omaha, Nebraska) is fulltime schrijfster van zowel jeugdboeken als romans voor volwassenen. Haar jeugddebuut Eleanor & Park was een New York Times-bestseller, werd lovend ontvangen door de pers en op handen gedragen door de lezers. Ze woont en werkt in Nebraska.

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Marissa Stapley – The Lightning Bottles

Marissa Stapley The Lightning Bottles review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 24 september 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de muziekroman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Marissa Stapley. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is nog niet verkrijgbaar.

Marissa Stapley The Lightning Bottles review, recensie en informatie

  • “Fiercely visceral and exquisitely written, The Lightning Bottles is an ode to rock and roll, the 90s and the power of music to hurt and heal in equal measure. This one will satisfy readers looking for a tumultuous love story, as well as those in the mood for a twisty mystery. Be prepared for the wildly talented, charismatic duo that is The Lightning Bottles to take up permanent residence in your head and heart.” (People)
  • “Both a page-turning mystery and a love letter to the grunge era. The set-up is simple and compelling: what if Courtney Love set out on a road trip across Europe with her internet sleuthing neighbor to uncover the real truth behind Kurt’s death? The parallels to Kurt and Courtney aren’t that exact… Still, we all know what we’re meant to be listening to while reading it.” (Lit Hub)

Marissa Stapley The Lightning Bottles

The Lightning Bottles

  • Auteur: Marissa Stapley (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, muziekroman
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 24 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Marissa Stapley

The author of New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick Lucky returns with a spellbinding story of rock ‘n’ roll and star-crossed love—about grunge-era musician Jane Pyre’s journey to find out what really happened to her husband and partner in music, who abruptly disappeared years earlier.

He was the troubled face of rock ‘n’ roll…until he suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Jane Pyre was once half of the famous rock ‘n’ roll duo, the Lightning Bottles. Years later, she’s perhaps the most hated—and least understood—woman in music. She was never as popular with fans as her bandmate (and soulmate), Elijah Hart—even if Jane was the one who wrote the songs that catapulted the Lightning Bottles to instant, dizzying fame, first in the Seattle grunge scene, then around the world.

But ever since Elijah disappeared five years earlier and the band’s meteoric rise to fame came crashing down, the public hatred of Jane has taken on new levels, and all she wants to do is retreat. What she doesn’t anticipate is the bombshell that awaits her at her new home in the German countryside: the sullen teenaged girl next door—a Lightning Bottles superfan—who claims to have proof that not only is Elijah still alive, he’s also been leaving secret messages for Jane. And they need to find them right away.

A cross-continent road trip about two misunderstood outsiders brought together by their shared love of music, The Lightning Bottles is both a love letter to the 90s and a searing portrait of the cost of fame.

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Jessica Elisheva Emerson – Olive Days

Jessica Elisheva Emerson Olive Days recensie, review en informatie over de debuutroman over de orthodox Joodse gemeenschap in Los Angeles. Op 10 september 2024 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Jessica Elisheva Emerson. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jessica Elisheva Emerson Olive Days recensie, review en informatie

  • “Olive Days is a brilliant exploration of the lasting power of Jewishness, of Jewishness that’s not dependent on belief . . . Emerson is an incredibly acute observer…  a fantastic debut novel.” (Karen E. H. Skinazi, Jewish Journal)
  • “Effervescent . . . Emerson provides a fascinating picture of Rina’s commitments as a Modern Orthodox woman and goes deep into the psychological battle between her duty to uphold tradition and her life-affirming desire. The result is titillating and thought-provoking in equal measure.” (Publishers Weekly)

Jessica Elisheva Emerson Olive Days

Olive Days

  • Auteur: Jessica Elisheva Emerson (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Jessica Elisheva Emerson over de Joodse gemeenschap in Los Angeles

A smoldering debut novel about a young mother in an Orthodox Jewish community of Los Angeles whose quest for authenticity erupts in a passionate affair following a night of wife swapping.

Rina Kirsch is a young mother and Modern Orthodox Jew in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of Los Angeles. Dutifully keeping to the formidable expectations of a traditional household connects Rina with generations past and those to come. But a contradiction burns at her center: Rina is an atheist. She is also stymied in her life and marriage.

Hoping to reinvigorate their relationship, Rina’s husband convinces her to partake in a night of wife swapping with other Orthodox couples. Rather than preserve her marriage, however, the swap plunges Rina down a heady path that begins with a rekindled passion for painting and culminates in an intoxicating affair with Will Ochoa, her married art teacher. Clandestine rendezvous and stolen moments of ardor awaken Rina to an existence beyond the confining parameters of tradition, offering a glimpse at the possible life she left behind in the olive groves of her youth. As the blush of erotic thrill comes into sharp contrast with the complications of living a secret life, Rina must decide if it’s worth sacrificing everything she’s ever known to fully inhabit the uncharted landscape unfolding before her, one where her needs take precedence.

Told in the fevered tenor common to both lust and religious devotion, Olive Days is an unforgettable story of the agonizing choices women make to balance duty against desire.

Jessica Elisheva Emerson is obsessed with cooking beans, growing food, eating pie, sleeping in on Shabbat, and working toward a better world. A Tucson native, Jessica spent twenty-two years in Los Angeles before returning to the Sonoran Desert, where she lives with her husband and children. Her stories and poems have been published in numerous journals, and she’s a produced playwright.

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Alice Driver – Life and Death of the American Worker

Alice Driver Life and Death of the American Worker recensie, review en informatie boek over the Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company. Op 3 september 2024 verschijnt bij Atria Books het journalistieke boek van Alice Driver over immigranten die strijden tegen de uitbuiting van de grootste vleesverpakker in de Verenigde Staten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het journalistieke boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Alice Driver Life and Death of the American Worker recensie, review en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Life and Death of the American Worker, geschreven door Alice Driver dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Alice Driver Life and Death of the American Worker

Life and Death of the American Worker

The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company

  • Auteur: Alice Driver (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistieke non-fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 3 september 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de strijd tegen de misstanden in de Amerikaanse vleesindustrie

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, an explosive exposé of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America and the immigrant workers who had the courage to fight back.

On June 27, 2011, a deadly chemical accident took place inside the Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Springdale, Arkansas, where the company is headquartered. The company quickly covered it up although the spill left their employees injured, sick, and terrified. Over the years, Arkansas-based reporter Alice Driver was able to gain the trust of the immigrant workers who survived the accident. They rewarded her persistence by giving her total access to their lives.

Having spent hours in their kitchens and accompanying them to doctor’s appointments, Driver has memorialized in these pages the dramatic lives of husband and wife Plácido and Angelina, who liked to spend weekends planting seeds from their native El Salvador in their garden; father and son Martín and Gabriel, who migrated from Mexico at different times and were trying to patch up their relationship; and many other immigrants who survived the chemical accident in Springdale that day.

During the course of Alice’s reporting, the COVID-19 pandemic struck the community, and the workers were forced to continue production in unsafe conditions, watching their colleagues get sick and die one by one. These essential workers, many of whom only speak Spanish and some of whom are illiterate—all of whom suffer the health consequences of Tyson’s negligence—somehow found the strength and courage to organize and fight back, culminating in a lawsuit against Tyson Foods, the largest meatpacking company in America.

Richly detailed, fiercely honest, and deeply reported, Life and Death of the American Worker will forever change the way we think about the people who prepare our food.

Alice Driver is a J. Anthony Lukas and James Beard Award–winning writer from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. Driver is the author of Life and Death of the American WorkerMore or Less Dead, and the forthcoming Artists All Around, a memoir about her family’s relationship with Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. She is also the translator of Abecedario de Juárez. She lives in the Ozark Mountains.

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Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1957. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Atlas Shrugged van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Ayn Rand. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De kracht van Atlantis.

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged recensie, review en informatie

  • “A writer of great power … she writes brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly.”  (The New York Times)
  • Atlas Shrugged … is a celebration of life and happiness.” (Alan Greenspan)

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

  • Auteur: Ayn Rand (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1957
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De kracht van Atlantis
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1937 van Ayn Rand

A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is the saga of the enigmatic John Galt, and his ambitious plan to ‘stop the motor of the world’, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Opening with the enigmatic question ‘Who is John Galt?’, Atlas Shrugged envisions a world where the ‘men of talent’ – the great innovators, producers and creators – have mysteriously disappeared. With the US economy now faltering, businesswoman Dagny Taggart is struggling to get the transcontinental railroad up and running. For her John Galt is the enemy, but as she will learn, nothing in this situation is quite as it seems. Hugely influential and grand in scope, this story of a man who stopped the motor of the world expounds Rand’s controversial philosophy of Objectivism, which champions competition, creativity and human greatness.

Ayn Rand (2 February 1905, Sint Petersburg, Russia – 6 March 1982, New York City), born Alisa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged roman uit 1957emigrated to America with her family in January 1926, never to return to her native land. Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and eventually became a bestseller. Still occasionally working as a screenwriter, Rand moved to New York City in 1951 and published Atlas Shrugged in 1957. Her novels espoused what came to be called Objectivism, a philosophy that champions capitalism and the pre-eminence of the individual.

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Toni Morrison – Beloved

Toni Morrison Beloved recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit 1987 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de historische slavernijroman Beloved van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Toni Morrison. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel Beminde.

Toni Morrison Beloved recensie, review en informatie

  • “Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours… Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all.” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times)

Toni Morrison Beloved

Beloved

  • Auteur: Toni Morrison (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse slavernijroman uit 1987
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Beminde
  • Waardering redactie∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Toni Morrison uit 1987

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’.

A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece and best-known work.

Toni Morrison (18 februari 1931, Lorain, Ohio – 5 augustus 2019, Toni Morrison Beloved novel 1987New York) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, BelovedParadise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

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