New Releases by Lauren Groff

Una novela de aventuras feminista, aclamada por la crítica, uno de los mejores libros del año según Time y en la lista de libros más vendidos de The New York Times PAUL BOWLES PRIZE · PEN/O. HENRY AWARD · PUSHCART PRIZE «Una de las mejores novelistas de nuestra época. [...] Te atrapa con ternura y después se niega asoltarte. Exquisita, desgarradora y absolutamente fascinante». Andrea Wulf (autora de La invención de la naturaleza ) Una sirvienta escapa de un asentamiento inglés del siglo XVII y se adentra en el aún salvaje territorio norteamericano. Carece incluso de nombre, pero la guían su ingenio, su fe y la imperiosa voluntad de alejarse de un terrible e inexplicable suceso. Lo queencontrará en esa tierra hermosa y brutal sobrepasará los límites de su propia imaginación y hará que se tambaleen sus creencias y todo lo que había aprendido de la civilización. Un viaje poderoso y emocionante a lo desconocido y hacia la emancipación con el que Lauren Groff reflexiona sobre nuestra capacidad de adaptación y supervivencia al entorno. La crítica ha dicho: «Este page-turner es un himno a la resistencia por el que la autora nos conduce; un espacio donde nuestra heroína se enfrenta para responder a su narrativa. Por favor, empiecen leyendo a Groff». Ángeles López, La Razón (*Libro de la semana*) «Una aventura épica contra el hambre y el frío, pero también un alegato feminista, anticolonial y ecologista». Anna Pazos, Babelia «Lauren Groff ha reinventado la novela de aventuras. [...] Maneja las palabras con la precisión de un cirujano y la pasión de un maestro, sin sacrificar nunca el oficio por el arte ni viceversa». Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times «Un page-turner con motor propio [...]. En cuanto te sumerges en sus ritmos, se convierte en un viaje absorbente y gratificante Vogue («Uno de los libros más esperados del 2023») «Una emocionante aventura histórica [...] cuyos temas existenciales —la crudeza de la vida, los inestimables mecanismos internos de la naturaleza, el impulso de seguir adelante— son de una intensa actualidad». Shannon Carlin, Time (Uno de los libros más esperados del otoño de 2023») «Conozco pocos escritores cuyas frases sean tan bellas y propulsoras. La protagonista encarna un vertiginoso impulso hacia delante, al igual que la escritura». Fiona Mozley, The New York Times Book Review «Un poderoso repudio de la fe [...] que también es una exaltación divina. El ritmo de la prosa de Groff es bíblico. [...] Hay algo estimulante en esta novela, una ambiciosa agilidad. [...] Un libro hambriento, desnudo como un hueso roído, lleno de determinación. Groff no se ha perdido en el bosque. Sabe muy bien hacia dónde se dirige». Beejay Silcox, The Guardian «Magnífica.[...] El entorno cobra vida en una prosa que vive y respira en cada página». The Boston Globe «Recuerda a las famosas historias de hombres que sobreviven solos en la naturaleza, como las de Hemingway, McCarthy o Gary Paulsen, [...] pero con una joven como protagonista de esta historia de supervivencia. Algo más que feminismo superficial». Andrew Limbong, NPR «La forma de representar la naturaleza salvaje, con su belleza y crueldad, es magnífica, al igual que el retrato psicológico de su incansable protagonista». Literary Hub («Una de las mejores novelas del otoño»)

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA''S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, LA TIMES, SLATE, HARPER''S BAZAAR and others “Part historical, part horror, part breathless thriller, part wilderness survival tale, The Vaster Wilds is a story about the lengths to which we will go to stay alive."—NPR staff pick “Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel."—Los Angeles Times “Glorious…surroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page." —Boston Globe A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.

«El drama de monjas medievales que no sabías que necesitabas» (Vulture): un retrato de la indomable María de Francia, por la autora que deslumbró a Barack Obama y a la crítica mundial, ganadora de los premios Paul Bowles, PEN/O. Henry y Pushcart. Uno de los mejores libros del año según The Times Descendiente de una larga dinastía de guerreras y cruzadas, Marie es demasiado ruda y rebelde para la vida palaciega, por lo que acaba siendo expulsada de la corte y enviada a los lodazales de Inglaterra para que asuma el rol de priora de una abadía venida a menos. Al llegar, encuentra un panorama desolador donde reinan la inanición y el chismorreo. Marie añora la comodidad de la corte francesa, y también a su amante secreta, Cecily. Sin embargo, al poco tiempo se dará cuenta de que sus nuevas obligaciones le otorgan más poder del que jamás habría imaginado, un acceso a los conocimientos sobre plantas medicinales y su propio sello de lacre para la correspondencia, que le permitirá cartearse confidencialmente con quien quiera. Tras Florida, finalista del National Book Award, Lauren Groff vuelve a sorprendernos con el retrato de María de Francia, un personaje fascinante y poco conocido de la historia que se ha convertido en icono femenino. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama''s Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and more! “A relentless exhibition of Groff’s freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell .” – USA Today “An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable.” – O, The Oprah Magazine “Thrilling and heartbreaking.” –Time Magazine “[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her.” –New York Times One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies. Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie’s vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

Inghilterra, Dodicesimo secolo. Marie, bandita dalla corte della regina Eleonora d''Aquitania, che ama di un amore ardente, è una ragazza sola, figlia illegittima di re, inutilmente colta, inutilmente appassionata, destinata com''è a una vita di clausura in un''abbazia che ha conosciuto giorni migliori, abitata da un piccolo popolo di donne inacidite dalla segregazione, dispettose, anche solo vecchissime. Però Marie riconosce in quell''enclave isolata, così importante per l''economia del contado, una possibilità di crescita, di potere, anche. E così prende le redini di un''impresa tutta da costruire che la porterà a scivolare in silenzio fuori dal raggio autoritario del clero locale, verso un''indipendenza di spirito e di azione destinata a trasformare l''abbazia in un cuore pulsante di energie, fervido di progetti, illuminato, vivo, in cui ogni donna ha il suo posto e la sua occasione di brillare. Ma da fuori premono l''invidia, le chiacchiere, la curiosità morbosa per quell''Utopia prima del tempo, tutta al femminile; e la badessa Marie è la prima a rendersi conto che libertà di pensiero e controllo della comunità sono a tratti inconciliabili, che il potere si conquista e si mantiene a caro prezzo, che le passioni, di qualunque tipo, sono pericolose. Tra autentiche credenti, reiette e bastarde, figlie cadette, ragazze sole al mondo gettate via come stracci, nobildonne radiose, la vita dentro le mura del convento, al centro di un labirinto progettato per isolarlo dalle brutture, è complicata quanto quella di fuori, forse anche di più. Lauren Groff torna al romanzo con una storia serrata e originale, che ha il passo dell''epica, la luce di una canzone d''amor cortese e lo scintillio tagliente dell''anima della sua Marie.

Passionerat, vackert och fullständigt uppslukande Ödet och ursinnet är först hans, och sedan hennes, version av den storslagna kärlekssagan. Lotto och Mathilde gifter sig bara två veckor efter att ha fallit för varandra. De är unga, vackra och ämnade för storslagenhet. I deras bohemiska New York-lägenhet surrar vännerna som en bikupa av förväntningar på att Lotto ska slå igenom som skådespelare. Men åren går, och Mathilde försörjer dem, till dess att lyckan väl vänder för Lotto. Förenade av en glödande passion driver de varandra genom livet i tron om att de är oskiljaktiga. Men den perfekta fasaden rämnar. Ursinnet kommer i kapp ödet och Lotto förstår inte hur fel han haft förrän det är för sent. ÖDET OCH URSINNET blev Lauren Groffs stora genombrott. Barack Obama utnämnde boken till årets favorit och den blev en omedelbar New York Times-bästsäljare som nu översatts till ett tjugotal språk. Skriven på Groffs karaktäristiska språk är det en svindlande läsupplevelse som tar andan ur sina läsare från första till sista sidan.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama''s Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and more! “A relentless exhibition of Groff’s freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell .” – USA Today “An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable.” – O, The Oprah Magazine “Thrilling and heartbreaking.” –Time Magazine “[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her.” –New York Times One of our best American writers, and author of the highly anticipated THE VASTER WILDS, Lauren Groff returns with this exhilarating and groundbreaking novel Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie’s vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Tout n''est pas si facile dans l''" État ensoleillé " qu''est la Floride. Derrière les images de carte postale se cachent des situations souvent ambigües comme l''attestent les nouvelles de ce recueil. On y croise une famille dont la vie se voit brutalement perturbée par la présence hypothétique d''une panthère, une femme qui, durant une tempête, reçoit la visite de fantômes venus de son passé, deux petites filles abandonnées sur une île qui doivent réinventer leur vie à l''état sauvage, une écrivaine floridienne de passage en Normandie pour écrire sur Maupassant, ou encore une femme qui décide soudain de changer de vie et de devenir vagabonde... La faune et la flore, les ouragans déchaînés propres à la Floride influent sur le destin de tous ces personnages. Mais Lauren Groff semble nous dire ceci : les menaces les plus dangereuses, et les perturbations les plus puissantes viennent rarement de l''extérieur, mais des recoins les plus isolés de notre intimité. Traduit de l''anglais (États-Unis) par Carine Chichereau.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE ONE OF NPR''S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR From the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "frequently funny" (San Francisco Chronicle), "brooding, inventive and often moving" (NPR Fresh Air) --as Groff is recognized as "Florida''s unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California." (Washington Post) In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character—a steely and conflicted wife and mother. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.

Traduit de l''anglais (États-Unis) par Carine Chichereau. " Le mariage est un tissu de mensonges. Gentils, pour la plupart. D''omissions. Si tu devais exprimer ce que tu penses au quotidien de ton conjoint, tu réduirais tout en miettes. Elle n''a jamais menti. Elle s''est contentée de ne pas en parler. " Ils se rencontrent à l''université. Ils se marient très vite. Nous sommes en 1991. À vingt-deux ans, Lotto et Mathilde sont beaux, séduisants, follement amoureux, et semblent promis à un avenir radieux. Dix ans plus tard, Lotto est devenu un dramaturge au succès planétaire, et Mathilde, dans l''ombre, l''a toujours soutenu. Le couple qu''ils forment est l''image-type d''un partenariat réussi. Mais les histoires d''amour parfaites cachent souvent des secrets qu''il vaudrait mieux taire. Au terme de ce roman, la véritable raison d''être de ce couple sans accrocs réserve bien des surprises.

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Per alcuni la vita è sogno. Lotto e Mathilde,il ragazzo d’oro e la principessa di ghiaccio, si conoscono alla fine dell’università e si sposano subito: giovani, bellissimi e innamorati, si avviano verso un destino di felicità. Lotto depone senza troppo dolore le ambizioni da attore per diventare celebre come autore teatrale, e Mathilde si rivela la moglie ideale, la musa silenziosa: lui ama le luci della ribalta e lei sceglie il riparo delle quinte, lui è fiducioso e aperto verso le persone e il futuro, lei è più oscura e sfuggente. Ventiquattro anni di matrimonio per una coppia perfetta, quella che vedono - o credono di vedere - tutti da fuori: ma basta cambiare punto di vista e la maschera cade. Il fato cala senza pietà; e Mathilde è la furia che libera un carico di rivelazioni. Con la sua scrittura intensa e luminosa Lauren Groff è riuscita a dare grande respiro narrativo a quella che si può leggere come una pièce teatrale, una tragedia animata da due personaggi folgoranti: perché ogni storia ha due facce, e la chiave di un matrimonio non è la verità, ma il segreto.

A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE “Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers – with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout.” —The New York Times Book Review (cover review) From the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Florida, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds: an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.

Lottos Charme bezwingt jeden, Mathildes Schönheit wirft ein Schimmern an jede Wand. Sie lieben und begehren einander, sie heiraten, ziehen nach New York. Ihre Partys sind legendär, und irgendwann feiert Lotto Triumphe als Dramatiker. Ist das glückliche Fügung, oder lenkt hier jemand mit kühlem Verstand die Geschicke? Ahnt Lotto, welchen Zorn Mathilde hinter ihrem Lächeln verbirgt? In einer vor Energie pulsierenden Sprache entwirft Lauren Groff das Bild einer Ehe, hinter deren Glanz sich schleichend etwas Dunkleres offenbart. Denn die Geschichte von Lotto und Mathilde kann auch ganz anders erzählt werden.

Lauren Groff ha creado una novela magistral que sorprende desde la primera página y que ha triunfado en el mundo anglosajón por su madurez y su talento narrativo. La novela del momento y uno de los 40 libros imprescindibles escritos por mujeres según Elena Ferrante « La certeza absoluta no existe en ningún lugar. A los dioses les encanta jodernos.» Lauren Groff Un hombre y una mujer caminan muy juntos por la playa. Hace frío, pero no importa. De repente se esconden detrás de unas dunas para celebrar su primer acto de amor carnal. Él es Lotto, ella es Mathilde, los dos tienen veintidós años y acaban de casarse, aunque solo llevan unos quince días juntos y saben muy poco el uno del otro. El hilo de sangre que mancha los muslos de Mathilde sella esta entrega que parece absoluta y exclusiva, y así será durante más de veinte años. Lotto y Mathilde se convierten en la pareja casi perfecta; basta una mirada para que se entiendan, un gesto cómplice para que los dos dejen una sala abarrotada de gente y aprovechen cualquier rincón para amarse. Lotto se dedica a escribir obras de teatro al hilo de su pasión por Shakespeare y Mathilde se convierte en la esposa ideal, que es musa, empresaria y ama de casa. Bien... Bien, hasta que de repente el destino se impone. Es entonces cuando descubrimos que el matrimonio, bien mirado, es una larga conversación, y que en esta charla caben huecos, omisiones, palabras sueltas que pueden ser mentiras piadosas o alfileres. Y es que toda historia tiene siempre al menos dos formas de ser contada. Bestseller de The New York Times Finalistadel National Book Award Mejor novela del año en Amazon Mejor novela del año según Obama Reseñas: «Resulta imposible no quedar fascinado por la posibilidad de ver lo que hay detrás de las puertas cerradas. Un drama visceral al que no podrás resistirte.» Marie Claire «Una novela descarada y ambiciosa con inconfundibles destellos de brillantez.» The New York Times

Toda história tem dois lados. Todo relacionamento tem duas perspectivas. E às vezes a chave para um grande casamento não está em suas verdades, mas em seus segredos. Aos 22 anos, Lotto e Mathilde são jovens, perdidamente apaixonados e destinados ao sucesso. Eles se conhecem nos últimos meses da faculdade e antes da formatura já estão casados. Seguem-se anos difíceis, mas românticos: reuniões com amigos no apartamento em Manhattan; uma carreira que ainda não paga as contas; uma casa onde só cabem felicidade e sexo bom. Uma década depois, o caminho tornou-se mais sólido. Ele é um dramaturgo famoso e ela se dedica integralmente ao sucesso do marido. A vida dos dois é invejada como a verdadeira definição de parceria bem-sucedida. Porém, nem tudo é o que parece; toda história tem dois lados, e em um casamento essa máxima se faz ainda mais verdadeira. Se em “Destinos” somos seduzidos pela imagem do casal perfeito, em “Fúrias” a tempestuosa raiva de Mathilde se revela fervendo sob a superfície. Em uma reviravolta emocionalmente complexa, o que começou como uma ode a uma união extraordinária se torna muito mais. Com profundidade e um emaranhado de tramas, a prosa vibrante e original de Destinos e fúrias comove, provoca e surpreende. Um romance sobre os muitos casamentos possíveis entre o amor, a arte e o poder e sobre os diferentes pontos de vista pelos quais essas combinações podem ser enxergadas. Romance finalista do National Book Award de 2015 e do Kirkus Prize, eleito livro do ano pela Amazon e diversos veículos de imprensa, entre eles The Washington Post, Time, Slate e Kirkus Reviews. “Lauren Groff rasga as costuras de um casamento aparentemente perfeito.” Vanity Fair “Uma leitura instigante que questiona se o amor pode ser verdadeiro mesmo quando envolto em falsidade.” People “É impossível não se deixar fascinar pelo que pode estar acontecendo a portas fechadas, especialmente se o que há do outro lado é um casal glamoroso e loucamente apaixonado.” Marie Claire

"Skæbne og hævn" er en blændende fortælling om kærlighed, løgne og hemmeligheder i et tilsyneladende lykkeligt ægteskab. Lotto og Mathilde bliver stormende forelsket på college og kort efter gifter de sig. Som 22-årige er de smukke, glamourøse og med storslåede fremtidsudsigter. Ti år senere ser vennerne stadig med misundelse på deres liv og ægteskab. Med en ildevarslende gysen går det dog op for læseren, at forholdet er mørkere, mere kompliceret og usædvanligt end det ser ud. Med rystende afsløringer og overraskende twists giver Lauren Groff os fortællingen om Lotto og Mathildes ægteskab set fra et andet perspektiv. Alle historier har nemlig to sider - også historien om livslange kærlighedsforhold. "Lauren Groff er en forfatter med et sjældent talent, og ‘Skæbne og hævn’ er en skamløst ambitiøs roman, der leverer – med komedie, tragedie og velanvendt lærdom og umiskendeligt skær af talent hele vejen igennem." – New York Times "En banebrydende triumf." – Washington Post "En legesyg og fængslende læseoplevelse, der stiller spørgsmålstegn ved, hvorvidt kærligheden kan være sand, når den en er indhyllet i usandheder." – People Magazine

Ieder verhaal heeft twee kanten. Ieder huwelijk heeft twee perspectieven. En soms - zoals in deze bedwelmende roman zal blijken - is het geheim van een gelukkig huwelijk niet de waarheid die je met elkaar deelt, maar de leugens die je elkaar vertelt. Lotto en Mathilde ontmoeten elkaar als ze 22 zijn. Ze zijn jong, verliefd en voorbestemd om grootse dingen te doen. Een decennium later is hun huwelijk nog steeds een bron van afgunst voor hun vrienden. Maar niet alles is wat het lijkt en wanneer bepaalde waarheden aan het licht komen blijkt hun relatie meer gecompliceerd en opzienbarend dan wie ook had kunnen vermoeden. Een verrassende en emotionele roman over een bijzonder partnerschap, die de lezer lang zal bijblijven.

Emily Gerard is placed into a rehabilitation center after being diagnosed with anorexia. Shocking secrets arise and new friends are made as Emily goes down the long, difficult journey of recovery.

A group of teen girls write the hopes and dreams down and the bottle, is found sixty years later.

A staggering portrait of a crumbling utopia, this "timeless and vast" novel filled with the "raw beauty" beautifully depicts an idyllic commune in New York State -- and charts its eventual yet inevitable downfall (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Timeless and vast... The raw beauty of Ms. Groff''s prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. But it is by no means this book''s only kind of splendor."---Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Even the most incidental details vibrate with life Arcadia wends a harrowing path back to a fragile, lovely place you can believe in."---Ron Charles, The Washington Post In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. Arcadia follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday. Arcadia''s inhabitants include Handy, the charismatic leader; his wife, Astrid, a midwife; Abe, a master carpenter; Hannah, a baker and historian; and Abe and Hannah''s only child, Bit. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. He falls in love with Helle, Handy''s lovely, troubled daughter. And eventually he must face the world beyond Arcadia. In Arcadia, Groff displays her literary gifts to stunning effect. "Fascinating."---People (****) "It''s not possible to write any better without showing off."---Richard Russo, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Empire Falls "Dazzling."---Vogue

“Richly conceived, finely detailed stories . . . of smart, daring women who are in search of, in thrall to, or disillusioned by love” (Booklist). “Nine wildly unique, exquisitely symphonic tales, full of beauty, tragedy, and the sudden horror of shocking images—this is Groff’s gift to readers. And what a gift it is.” —Library Journal From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling novel Fates and Furies, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman. “[An] innovative and beautifully written collection that covers a wide swath of humanity, from east coast resort towns, to the early twentieth century flu epidemic, to WWII Europe.” —Publishers Weekly “Tales of ordinary transformations and everyday occurrences are made magical in a collection of nine stories by Groff. . . . Groff’s skill makes commonplace occurrences seem compelling.” —Kirkus Reviews

Una joven universitaria emprende una búsqueda para averiguar quién es su padre. Esta sencilla pero seductora propuesta es la base del brillante debut de la joven norteamericana Lauren Groff, elogiada con entusiasmo por autores tan dispares como Lorrie Moore y Stephen King. Finalista del premio Orange para escritores noveles, la novela entró en la lista de libros más vendidos del New York Times.Confundida y agotada tras una desastrosa relación sentimental, Willie Upton abandona sus estudios de arqueología y cruza el país para regresar, en busca de sosiego, a su lugar de origen, el idílico pueblo de Templeton, en el estado de Nueva York. Sin embargo, aldía siguiente de su llegada, la aparición del cadáver de un monstruo de quince metros en aguas del lago quiebra la tranquilidad dellugar. Por si eso fuera poco, Willie descubre que su madre, ex hippy y madre soltera, le mintió sobre la identidad de su padre, y lo máximo que ahora está dispuesta a admitir es que se trata de un hombre de Templeton. Así pues, cuando Willie comience a indagar enla historia y la mitología del pueblo saldrán a la luz otros tantos secretos de su árbol genealógico, y se establecerá una serie deinesperadas y reveladoras conexiones entre el pasado y el presente.Inspirándose en la fascinante saga familiar de los fundadores laciudad de Cooperstown - entre quienes se halla el famoso escritor James Fenimore Cooper -, Lauren Groff narra una absorbente historia a través de la mirada apasionada, inteligente y poética de una joven que conquista la simpatía del lector desde la primera página.«Los monstruos de Templeton posee todo lo que un lector debe esperar de una autora tan brillante, e incluso más [...] En sus páginas hay monstruos, asesinos, hijos ilegítimos y un sinnúmero de chismosos y embusteros. Una intensa y maravillosa novela.» Stephen King

Bei den Nachforschungen über ihre Herkunft taucht Willie in die Geheimnisse ihrer Familie ein. Die Toten scheinen aufzuerstehen, um ihre Geschichten zu erzählen, dunkle Rätsel treten zu Tage, Gegenwart und Vergangenheit verschwimmen ineinander, alte Geschichten können endlich zu einem friedlichen Ende kommen, während die schockierende Wahrheit über mehr als ein Monster gelüftet wird.

"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl''s search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian''s house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willie''s entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father''s identity lies somewhere in her family''s history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town''s past -- some sinister, all fascinating -- rise up around her to tell their side of the story. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. The Monsters of Templeton is a fresh, virtuoso performance that has placed Lauren Groff among the best writers of today.