New Releases by Jennifer Egan

‘Sort boks’ er kvindens missionslog – en spionthriller i twitterformat fra bestseller-forfatteren Jennifer Egan.

Bennie Salazar, ein Musikproduzent mit Visionen, hat Höhen und Tiefen erlebt. Auch seine Assistentin Sasha hat Probleme, von denen er allerdings nichts ahnt. Als Scotty, der Leadgitarrist von Bennies einstiger Punkband, überraschend wieder auftaucht, holt die Vergangenheit beide ein. Jennifer Egan entwirft ein grosses Portrait des kulturellen Umbruchs seit dem Ende der Utopien bis zum digitalen Zeitalter und erzählt in wechselnden Perspektiven von Liebe, Freundschaft und Verlust. DER GRÖSSERE TEIL DER WELT reicht von der Musikszene San Franciscos Ende der Siebziger und dem New York der Neunziger bis zur ökologischen Katastrophe der Zukunft und einem verblüffenden Konzert am Ground Zero. Für ihren Roman erhielt Jennifer Egan den Pulitzer-Preis 2011 und zahlreiche weitere renommierte Auszeichnungen. DER GRÖSSERE TEIL DER WELT wird für das Fernsehen verfilmt, ist in 28 Sprachen übersetzt und international ein Bestseller. Jennifer Egan wurde 1962 in Chicago geboren und wuchs in San Francisco auf. Neben ihren Romanen und Kurzgeschichten schreibt sie für den New Yorker sowie das New York Times Magazine und lehrt an der Columbia University Creative Writing. Ihr Roman LOOK AT ME kam ins Finale für die Nominierung des National Book Awards. Für ihren Roman DER GRÖSSERE TEIL DER WELT wurde sie mit dem Pulitzer-Preis 2011 ausgezeichnet.

"É essa a realidade, não é? Vinte anos depois, a sua beleza já foi para o lixo, especialmente quando arrancaram fora metade das suas entranhas. O tempo é cruel, não é? Não é assim que se diz?” Bennie Salazar é um executivo da indústria fonográfica. Sasha é sua assistente cleptomaníaca. E é a partir da história desses dois personagens que Jennifer Egan retrata, em uma narrativa caleidoscópica, a passagem do tempo e a transformação das relações. Da São Francisco dos anos 1970 até a Nova York de um futuro próximo, a autora cria um romance de estilo ímpar sobre continuidade e rupturas, memória e expectativas. Surpreendente, A visita cruel do tempo combina diferentes pontos de vista sobre histórias que se entrelaçam de maneiras inesperadas. Ao longo dos sabores e dissabores da vida dos personagens, Egan traça um interessante e envolvente panorama sobre crescimento, perda e ambição e sobre o que acontece entre o que esperamos de nossa vida e o que se torna realidade.

Danny é um nova-iorquino viciado em celular que, entre outros estranhos talentos, consegue detectar na própria pele se um lugar tem sinal de internet wi-fi. Quando seu primo Howard, de quem havia se afastado após uma brincadeira de mau gosto na adolescência, o convida para conhecer o castelo europeu que comprou e está reformando com a intenção de transformar em hotel de luxo, Danny acha que é uma boa oportunidade para retomar o contato e ao mesmo tempo fugir da confusão que arrumou em seu último emprego. Ao chegar lá, no entanto, as coisas começam a ficar estranhas. O torreão do castelo, que serviu de fortificação durante muitos séculos e resistiu a diversas tentativas de invasão, ainda é ocupado pela antiga proprietária — uma baronesa sinistra que parece velha demais para estar viva. Uma piscina mal-assombrada e um traiçoeiro labirinto subterrâneo completam a aura de mistério do lugar. Quando o pânico toma conta de Danny, ele descobre que a “realidade” pode ser algo em que não consegue mais acreditar. De maneira inventiva e subvertendo os limites entre fantasia e realidade, Egan constrói uma história que prende o leitor a cada página e nos faz ter vontade de reler o livro muitas vezes.

Jack has sensory processing disorder and experiences life differently. Jack visits his Grandparents’ cabin and learns to like the snow. He gets encouragement from different family members and learns to be brave, in order to join in and make a snowman with his family. Come join Jack on his journey, and learn to be brave along with him!

''Close your eyes and slowly count backward from ten.'' America, the near future. A young spy on a mission logs her observations. The result is an intense thriller, and a minute dissection of the experience of a woman whose beauty is also her camouflage, for whom control relies on submission: a woman whose success - whose life - depends on being seen and not seen. Originally published online via Twitter by @NYerFiction, Jennifer Egan''s first new fiction since the phenomenal success of A Visit From the Goon Squad is a taut, compulsive work of unrelenting genius.

Sasha a une petite trentaine. Elle vivote à New York, après avoir quitté son poste d''assistante de production dans une grande maison de disques. On la découvre sur le canapé de son psychothérapeute, tentant de régler son problème de kleptomanie et de remettre de l''ordre dans sa vie. Sans amis, sans travail, elle est une âme solitaire et prédatrice. Bennie, lui, a la quarantaine passée. Ancien producteur star des Conduits, un groupe de rock emblématique, il se contente désormais d''éditer des tubes insipides. Divorcé, il essaie d''entretenir des liens avec son fils, sans trop y parvenir. Déprimé, il n''arrive même plus à avoir la moindre érection.D''une écriture acérée, Jennifer Egan nous plonge dans la conscience et l''histoire de ces deux personnages dont les chemins un jour se sont croisés. Jeune homme timide, Bennie se passionna pour le punk, dans un San Francisco débridé. Adolescente au tempérament fougueux, Sasha partit pour Naples afin d''oublier des parents destructeurs. Une foule de personnages jalonnent leur existence, qu''il s''agisse de Lou Kline, le mentor allumé de la bande, ou de l''oncle de Sasha, un homme au bord du gouffre.Ces histoires de vie s''enchaînent, des personnalités très fortes se dégagent, une véritable tension naît autour de leurs destinées. En restituant le passage du temps et les aléas du désir, Jennifer Egan ausculte notre capacité à avancer et à devenir ce que nous sommes, sans rien nier du passé.

Bennie Salazar, en åldrande före detta punkare som nu blivit skivbolagsmogul, anställer den rastlösa Sasha. Genom olika nedslag i deras liv skildras hur tid och musik formar oss människor. Vi får möta Bennie när han försöker upprätta en relation med sin nioårige son, men också långt tidigare när han blev en del av punkscenen i San Francisco. Sashas gränslösa tillvaro skildras från medelålderns psykologdivan till en vild uppväxt i New York och Neapel. Jennifer Egans kritikerhyllade Huliganerna kommer på besök liknar ingenting annat. Lika inspirerad av Proust som av Sopranos är det en roman som är ett rockalbum, eller ett rockalbum som är en roman. En tragedi, en komedi, en powerpointpresentation. En roman om vår tid, eller om den tid som flytt - eller med TS Eliots ord om att nutiden och dåtiden kanske är närvarande i framtiden. Vilka är de där huliganerna som kommer på besök? Varför vill de träffa oss? Vad har de egentligen att erbjuda? Huliganerna kommer på besök belönades med Pulitzerpriset med motiveringen "en sinnrik undersökning om att bli vuxen och om att bli gammal i en digital tidsålder, en roman som visar på en hängiven nyfikenhet om hur kulturella förändringar sker i warphastighet".

Kiehtova Pulitzer-palkittu romaani Newyorkilainen Sasha työskentelee levy-yhtiössä johtaja Bennie Salazarin assistenttina. Romaanin alussa hän on ensitreffeillä Alex-nimisen miehen kanssa ja yrittää hillitä kleptomaanisia taipumuksiaan. Toisaalla Bennie kipuilee avioeroa, musiikkibisneksen muutoksia ja vanhenemista. Toista oli villi nuoruus San Franciscon punk-piireissä! Kaikki romaanin tapahtumat liittyvät tavalla tai toisella Sashaan ja Bennieen: käydään Hemingway-henkisellä safarilla 70-luvun Afrikassa, kiillotetaan trooppista diktatuuria hirmuhallinnoivan kenraalin julkisuuskuvaa, tutustutaan Napolin alamaailmaan, väijytään tähtiä New Yorkin Keskuspuistossa ja luetaan tulevaisuuden teinitytön powerpoint-muotoista päiväkirjaa. Aika suuri hämäys on hauska, raikas ja yllätyksellinen lukukokemus yhdeltä tämän hetken puhutuimmalta amerikkalaiskirjailijalta. Kirjan henkilökaarti on herkullisen värikäs ja mittava, ja ajallisesti liikutaan 1970-luvulta 2020-luvulle. Romaani rikkoo iloisesti lajityyppejä ja sen kehämäisen rakenteen voisi ajatella muistuttavan Facebookia. Jennifer Eganin romaani kahmi ilmestyessään lukuisia palkintoja: Pulitzerin ja National Book Critics Circle Awardin sekä New York Timesin vuoden 2010 paras kirja -maininnan. Lisäksi se oli ehdolla Orange- ja PEN/Faulkner-palkintojen saajaksi.

2011 the Pulitzer Prize winner A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan. This book entitled with numerous awards and accolades including National Bestseller, National Book Critics Circle ward Winner, PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, A New York Times Book Review Best Book. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Simplified Chinese edition of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan. This book received numerous awards and accolades including National Bestseller, National Book Critics Circle ward Winner, PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, and A New York Times Book Review Best Book. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Making the Trees Shiver is an eclectic collection recreating the magic that is the annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival. Poetry and prose by Chris Abani, Amiri Baraka, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Staceyann Chin, Kwame Dawes, Jennifer Egan, Marlon James, Jacqueline Johnson, Willie Perdomo, Sonia Sanchez, Hal Sirowitz, and Quincy Troupe is interspersed with work by the talented next generation of writers from NY Writers Coalition''s creative writing workshops. Making the Trees Shiver celebrates community writing at it''s finest: expansive, authentic, and full of life. Like Fort Greene Park itself, these pages are noisy at times, chilling at others, but always full of spectacular views.

Nu al een klassieker! In Bezoek van de knokploeg maken we kennis met platenproducer Bennie, zijn vroegere punkvriend Scotty, Sasha, kleptomane en Bennies assistente, knappe Alex, Sasha''s date voor één nacht, en vele anderen. Daar waar hun levens elkaar kruisen verwoordt Jennifer Egan met verve en humor de grote truc die de tijd met ons uithaalt, in een roman over verleiding en verlies. Bezoek van de knokploeg is als een conceptalbum uit de jaren zeventig.

The highly acclaimed debut novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Good Squad follows two sisters in the 1970s—one lost, one seeking—on "a trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain" (The New Yorker). The political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O’Connor, age eighteen, in 1978. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith’s life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith’s lost generation. This spellbinding novel introduced Egan’s remarkable ability to tie suspense with deeply insightful characters and the nuances of emotion.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn''t, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune). One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. “Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.” —The New York Times Book Review

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied. With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with the image. There’s a deceptively plain teenaged girl embarking on a dangerous secret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic stranger who changes names and accents as he prepares an apocalyptic blow against American society. As these narratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.

Een succesvol fotomodel wil na een ernstig auto-ongeluk een nieuw leven beginnen en probeert erachter te komen wie haar geheimzinnige minnaar was.

The theme of longing in all its forms--for change, for redemption, for travel outside the bounds of daily life to realms where anything seems possible--unites this masterful story collection. In various settings, Egan''s characters--models, housewives, schoolgirls--seek transformation of the body and spirit, and transcendence of the borders of desire.