New Releases by Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner is the author of Creation Lake (2024), Fatti per bruciare (2023), Telex de Cuba (2022), Harte Leute (2022), Les routiers sont sympas (2021).

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Creation Lake

release date: Sep 03, 2024
Creation Lake
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION* *AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, KIRKUS REVIEWS, NPR, THE ECONOMIST, THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOX, and more* From Rachel Kushner, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award, a “vital” (The Washington Post) and “wickedly entertaining” (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor. Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and clean beauty who is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian she has met by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone she targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more. In this region of old farms and prehistoric caves, Sadie becomes entranced by a mysterious figure named Bruno Lacombe, a mentor to the young activists who believes that the path to emancipation is not revolt but a return to the ancient past. Just as Sadie is certain she’s the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story. Written in short, vaulting sections, Rachel Kushner’s rendition of “noir” is taut and dazzling. Creation Lake is Kushner’s finest achievement yet—a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure.

Fatti per bruciare

release date: Apr 26, 2023
Fatti per bruciare
I diciannove saggi qui raccolti spaziano dal giornalismo letterario al memoir, dalla critica d''arte al reportage in zone di guerra. Alle riflessioni sulle opere di Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, Marguerite Duras, Clarice Lispector e Nanni Balestrini, Kushner affianca il racconto di esperienze private, tra cui il viaggio in un campo profughi palestinese, la partecipazione a una corsa illegale di motociclette, l''incontro con il cinema documentaristico nell''Italia degli anni Settanta, e l''adolescenza in una San Francisco ai limiti della legalità. A fungere da collante nella moltitudine di scenari è la riflessione sull''arte come rivoluzione e sulla rivoluzione come forma d''arte. Se infatti il ruolo politico e sociale dell''opera artistica è al centro dei saggi di stampo piú marcatamente critico, le pagine sul cinema italiano degli anni Settanta o sul sistema penitenziario americano intendono mostrare la potenza rivoluzionaria ed estetica del pensiero e del dibattito, il tutto filtrato dallo stesso sguardo lucido e tagliente; dallo stesso acume irriverente eppure profondamente empatico; dalla stessa fame di conoscenza e verità. I saggi si uniscono cosí come tessere di un mosaico che compongono l''immagine dell''autrice non come oracolo bensí come ricettacolo e veicolo di immagini ed esperienze da restituire vivide nella loro integrità. Vi si avverte il dovere della testimonianza, e non perché la vita che viene raccontata sia quella di una privilegiata, ma perché chi racconta ha il privilegio della sopravvivenza.

Telex de Cuba

release date: Oct 19, 2022
Telex de Cuba
Cuba, fin des années 1950. La région de l’Oriente est la plus pauvre du pays, mais c’est un paradis pour un petit nombre d’exilés américains qui, aveugles à la misère alentour, y règnent en maîtres absolus et exploitent de vastes étendues de canne à sucre. C’est le cas de K.C. Stites et de ses parents, peu préoccupés par la guérilla que mènent dans les montagnes les frères Castro. Ils sont encore loin de comprendre que c’est à la fin de leur monde, et de leur mode de vie privilégié, qu’ils sont en train d’assister. Dans ce roman choral à la construction éblouissante, Rachel Kushner entremêle avec une justesse impressionnante l’intime et le politique, la grande histoire et les vies de plusieurs acteurs qui ont été partie prenante de la révolution cubaine, explorant ainsi les multiples facettes d’une réalité subjective, riche et romanesque. Rachel Kushner s’intéresse aux relations entre les classes, les individus, les nations, et nous offre un magnifique roman qui se lit comme un thriller. The New York Times. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Julie Sibony.

Harte Leute

release date: Oct 18, 2022
Harte Leute
Rachel Kushner ist für ihren Mut, ihren Ehrgeiz und ihren Killerinstinkt bekannt. In Harte Leute versammelt sie eine Auswahl ihrer Essays, die sich mit den drängendsten kulturellen, künstlerischen und politischen Themen unserer Zeit ebenso befasst wie mit Kushners schriftstellerischen Grundlagen und Wurzeln. Das Buch enthält Texte über Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson und Marguerite Duras, über den Besuch in einem palästinensischen Flüchtlingslager, ein illegales Motorradrennen in Baja California, die wilden Streiks im Italien der Siebzigerjahre, ihre Liebe zu Oldtimern und ihr Leben als Jugendliche in der Musikszene von San Francisco. Es schließt mit einem Finale furioso: einem wilden Manifest über «harte Leute». Zwanzig rasiermesserscharfe Essays von einer der großen Stimmen der zeitgenössischen US-Literatur.

Les routiers sont sympas

release date: Sep 15, 2021
Les routiers sont sympas
« D’une beauté folle, sensuelle et dévastatrice. »The New York Times Les routiers sont sympas est un recueil de dix-neuf textes tranchants comme des lames de rasoirs, où Rachel Kushner semble invoquer plusieurs genres – le journalisme, les mémoires, la critique littéraire et artistique –, où Jeff Koons croise Denis Johnson et Marguerite Duras.Rachel Kushner nous emmène dans un camp de réfugiés palestiniens, une course de motos illégale dans la péninsule de Baja, au cœur des grèves sauvages des années 1970 dans les usines Fiat et nous fait découvrir son amour pour les voitures classiques et sa vie de bohème sur la scène musicale de sa ville natale, San Francisco. On y croise des motards, des bars mal éclairés, des routiers, de la drogue et beaucoup de références qui sont comme le sous-texte de ses précédents romans.Tels un road-trip à travers l’Amérique personnelle de Rachel Kushner, ces textes lumineux et électriques, sont de véritables clefs pour comprendre notre époque et la société américaine. Et une formidable opportunité de suivre l’évolution de l’une des écrivaines américaines les plus talentueuses de sa génération. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Emmanuelle et Philippe Aronson.

The Hard Crowd

release date: Apr 06, 2021
The Hard Crowd
A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.

The Mayor of Leipzig

release date: Mar 30, 2021
The Mayor of Leipzig
An acidic portrait of the grifters and pretenders of the art world, from the celebrated author of The Mars Room In Rachel Kushner''s latest work of fiction, The Mayor of Leipzig, an unnamed artist recounts her travels from New York City to Cologne--where she contemplates German guilt and art-world grifters, and Leipzig--where she encounters live "adult entertainment" in a business hotel. The narrator gossips about everyone, including the author. "Taking a time out from what happened to me in Cologne and in Leipzig," Kushner writes, "I want to let you in on a secret: I personally know the author of this story you''re reading. Because she fancies herself an art world type, a hanger-on. Who would do that voluntarily? I mean, it''s not like someone held a gun to my head and said, Be an artist. I chose it, but I still can''t imagine having anything to do with the art world if you don''t have to. Also, people who don''t make stuff, who instead try to catalogue, periodize, and understand art, they never understand the first thing. Art is about taste, a sense of humor, and most writers lack both." Rachel Kushner (born 1968) is the author of The Flamethrowers (2013) and The Mars Room (2018). Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. A collection of her early work, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published by New Directions in 2015. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper''s and the Paris Review.

La sala Marte / The Mars Room

release date: Jan 21, 2020
La sala Marte / The Mars Room
Novela del año según TIME y finalista del Man Booker Prize. «Áspera, empática, finamente construida, sin edulcorantes y cargada de golpes,ninguno de ellos suave.».- Margaret Atwood «La mayor parte de los libros de ficción literaria son de corta duración. La sala Marte permanecerá. Es auténtica.».- Stephen King El camino que recorre Romy, condenada a dos cadenas perpetuas, es el que parece programado para ciertas personas y que pone en cuestión el sueño americano: un camino que va directo desde la pobreza hasta la cárcel. En La sala Marte entramos de lleno en este mundo extraño situado tras los muros de una prisión de mujeres, cargado de detalles y de un idioma y una rutina propios; un mundo aparte pero unido íntimamente al del exterior. La minuciosidad con la que Rachel Kushner trata la violencia latente y explícita de esta red carcelaria, la oscuridad y la comicidad de sus personajes, la implicación con la que se ha empapado de la realidad más subterránea de su país, han convertido a esta novela en una obra clave de la literatura americana actual. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).

La sala Marte

release date: Sep 12, 2019
La sala Marte
Novela del año según TIME y finalista del Man Booker Prize. «Áspera, empática, finamente construida, sin edulcorantes y cargada de golpes, ninguno de ellos suave.» Margaret Atwood «La mayor parte de los libros de ficción literaria son de corta duración. La sala Marte permanecerá. Es auténtica.» Stephen King El camino que recorre Romy, condenada a dos cadenas perpetuas, es el que parece programado para ciertas personas y que pone en cuestión el sueño americano: un camino que va directo desde la pobreza hasta la cárcel. En La sala Marte entramos de lleno en este mundo extraño situado tras los muros de una prisión de mujeres, cargado de detalles y de un idioma y una rutina propios; un mundo aparte pero unido íntimamente al del exterior. La minuciosidad con la que Rachel Kushner trata la violencia latente y explícita de esta red carcelaria, la oscuridad y la comicidad de sus personajes, la implicación con la que se ha empapado de la realidad más subterránea de su país, han convertido a esta novela en una obra clave de la literatura americana actual. La crítica ha dicho... «Ni un solo hecho que chirríe, en la que todo parece tan auténtico como inimaginable desde este lado de la sociedad, tan cierto como la mala vida misma. Borda la novela carcelaria [...]. Kushner triunfa y se lo merece.» Soledad Garaizábal, El Imparcial «Me ha conmovido. [...] Un relato inmenso.» Marta Michel, El Mundo - Yo Dona « La sala Marte es una novela inmensa.» The New York Times «La prosa de Kushner chispea con tanto peligro como la valla electrificada que rodea Stanville, sus observaciones son afiladas como alambre de espino, su humor es árido y oscuro. [...] Se te queda marcada como un tatuaje.» The Guardian «Brillante [...], una novela desgarradora, verdadera y casi perfecta.» NPR «Una de las novelistas más dotadas de su generación [...]. Un libro que se devora [...], de esos que te encolerizan incluso cuando que te están rompiendo el corazón.» The New York Times Book Review «Una novela inolvidable». Daily Telegraph «Kushner utiliza la novela como un lugar en el que ser exuberante y divertida y contar historias que hagan avanzar, pero sobre todo como un terreno amplio en el que pensar.» The New Yorker «Con su tercera novela, rica en texturas, Kushner confirma su lugar como una de las grandes novelistas estadounidenses del siglo XXI.» Entertainment Weekly «Una de las mejores novelas que he leído en años.» Rob Doyle, The Irish Times «Merece ser leída con el mismo nivel de pasión, amor y humanidad con el que evidentemente fue escrita.» Publishers Weekly «Devastadora.» Los Angeles Times « La sala Marte es tan sensual y convincente que te deja la marca de la alambrada metálica en la frente y, al mismo tiempo, su compasión reúne tanto a la asesina de bebés como a un policía brutal dentro de los despiadados confines del sistema de justicia norteamericano. Un logro literario extraordinario.» Adam Thorpe « La sala Marte ofrece una rara combinación de frases admirablemente bien asentadas y unos personajes y una trama que me hicieron quedarme despierta hasta tarde. La situación de Romy es insoportable [...] pero está tan bien escrita y las ideas tratadas de una manera tan experta que es un placer leerla en medio de tal devastación.» Sarah Moss

Mars Club

release date: Jun 05, 2019
Mars Club
Um livro ácido e cortante sobre a rotina de uma prisão para mulheres. Romy Hall está no ônibus que irá levá-la para uma prisão na Califórnia, onde encontrará um mundo novo, repleto de regras próprias, em que centenas de mulheres vivem em meio à violência dos guardas e das próprias circunstâncias. Enquanto aprende os códigos e os macetes para sobreviver, Romy pensa em sua vida anterior e em tudo que a levou até ali. Pensa, sobretudo, em seu filho Jackson. Com uma notável capacidade para descrever os absurdos da vida carcerária, Rachel Kushner criou um romance antissentimental, audacioso e trágico.

Le Mars Club

release date: Aug 22, 2018
Le Mars Club
Romy Hall, 29 ans, vient d’être transférée à la prison pour femmes de Stanville, en Californie. Cette ancienne stripteaseuse doit y purger deux peines consécutives de réclusion à perpétuité, plus six ans, pour avoir tué l’homme qui la harcelait. Dans son malheur, elle se raccroche à une certitude : son fils de 7 ans, Jackson, est en sécurité avec sa mère. Jusqu’au jour où l’administration pénitentiaire lui remet un courrier qui fait tout basculer. Oscillant entre le quotidien de ces détenues, redoutables et attachantes, et la jeunesse de Romy dans le San Francisco de années 1980, Le Mars Club dresse le portrait féroce d’une société en marge de l’Amérique contemporaine. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Sylvie Schneiter

Club Mars

release date: May 15, 2018
Club Mars
In ‘Club Mars’ van Rachel Kushner is de 29-jarige Romy Hall onlangs veroordeeld tot tweemaal levenslang plus zes jaar. Ze slijt haar dagen in een maximaal beveiligde vrouwengevangenis in Noord-Californië. Buiten is het San Francisco van haar jeugd en Club Mars, de stripclub waar ze ooit danste voor de kost. En haar zevenjarige zoontje Jackson. Binnen is de nieuwe, absurde realiteit: duizenden vrouwen die hun levensbehoeften bij elkaar proberen te scharrelen, dagelijks geweld door zowel bewakers als gevangenen. Romy ziet de toekomst voor zich uitstrekken in een lange, onverbiddelijk rechte lijn. Totdat ze uit haar sleur wordt gerukt door nieuws vanbuiten, en haar lot naar eigen hand moet proberen te zetten. Een hartverscheurend en onvergetelijk boek, aldus Publishers Weekly.

The Mars Room

release date: May 01, 2018
The Mars Room
TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).

Telex aus Kuba

release date: Apr 22, 2017
Telex aus Kuba
In ''Telex aus Kuba'', einem packenden Roman über die kubanische Revolution, sind sie alle versammelt – die Castros, Che Guevara, der Diktator Batista und US-Präsident Eisenhower. Aber erzählt wird die Geschichte hauptsächlich von zwei Jugendlichen, Everly Lederer und K.C. Stites, die füreinander bestimmt zu sein scheinen: sie die Tochter des Chefs einer amerikanischen Nickelmine und er der Sohn eines leitenden Angestellten der United Fruit Company. Aus den Brüchen zwischen dem, was sie voller Faszination und Erschrecken wahrnehmen, tritt allmählich die Geschichte eines ebenso wagemutigen wie bisweilen absurden Freiheitskrieges zutage. Verwickelt in ihn sind, mit oft dubiosen Interessen, auch ein französischer Agent mit SS-Vergangenheit, eine kubanische Tänzerin mit erotischem Hang zur Macht, zahlreiche karrierebewusste Saubermänner und ihre dekadenten Gattinnen, Dschungelkämpfer und schmutzige Geschäftemacher. Rachel Kushner hat einen tropisch glitzernden historischen Moment des 20. Jahrhunderts mit großer Raffinesse so verdichtet, dass er die Ereignisse wie durch ein Brennglas zeigt. Man liest mit allen Sinnen, sieht, schmeckt, fühlt mit den Figuren und überlässt sich Kushners herausragender erzählerischer Kraft.

Braci nella notte

release date: Sep 23, 2015
Braci nella notte
«Un’autentica meraviglia dalla copertina fino all’ultima pagina. Bisognerebbe averne una scorta, per regalarlo agli amici ammalati; si scorderanno della loro artrite e della loro polmonite, ve lo garantisco». The Washington Post «Una scrittrice che ha il pieno controllo della propria materia, una stilista dalla bravura non invadente, una narratrice che cattura e una costruttrice di mondi di straordinaria potenza». The Times «Un linguaggio scintillante che inoltre persegue la verità, emotiva e politica. Sarete ammaliati dal romanzo della Kushner». The Independent «Rachel Kushner, classe 1968, è un’anomalia nel panorama letterario Usa [...] niente minimalismi o famiglie disfunzionali, piuttosto la capacità di immergerci in un pezzo di storia facendoci sentire il fuoco delle rivolte». Lara Crinò, il Venerdì Cuba. Gli anni fra il colpo di Stato di Batista e la rivoluzione castrista. Gli americani vivono in un paradiso coloniale: governano le piantagioni di canna da zucchero e le miniere di nichel nella provincia di Oriente, ignorando (o fingendo di ignorare) che quel mondo è destinato a crollare. Fra loro crescono e si formano i giovani K.C. (che a Cuba è nato) e Everly (che ci è arrivata a otto anni), osservatori privilegiati del lusso e dello sfarzo, delle meschinità grandi e piccole, degli ideali e della grettezza degli adulti. All’Avana, intanto, una ballerina «francese» del Cabaret Tokio stringe relazioni con presidenti, dittatori e ribelli. E con un misterioso «tedesco», dal passato e dai traffici poco chiari... Rachel Kushner, conosciuta in tutto il mondo per I lanciafiamme, in questo suo primo romanzo ricostruisce con estrema cura il mondo della Cuba «americana» degli anni Cinquanta: un mondo superato ormai dalla Storia, superficialmente splendente ma segnato da profondissime contraddizioni e, nella decadente inconsapevolezza dei suoi protagonisti, inevitabilmente avviato alla fine. Su questo sfondo si intrecciano le vicende di una moltitudine di personaggi disegnati con grande maestria, in un racconto di straordinaria vivacità narrativa in cui la Storia e l’esistenza dei singoli si affiancano, si incontrano, si scontrano.

The Strange Case of Rachel K

release date: Mar 24, 2015
The Strange Case of Rachel K
Three early stories of myth, regime, and harlotry by the acclaimed author of The Flamethrowers. An explorer’s whereabouts keeps a queen in waiting; a faith healer’s illegal radio broadcasts give hope to an oppressed people; a president’s offer of ice cream surprises a prostitute expecting to cooperate fully — the three short fictions gathered in The Great Exception build into a vision of Cuba that is black-humored, brutal, and beautiful. Written prior to the publication of Rachel Kushner’s first acclaimed novel Telex From Cuba, these stories, like Roberto Bolano’s Antwerp, burst forth with the genesis of her fictional universe as though fired from a cannon. From the mythical title story, to the ominous “Debouchment” — originally published in her too short-lived journal Soft Targets — to the sexy and noirish “Strange Case of Rachel K,” this is Kushner saddling up for a journey into the wilds of the modern novel.

Flammekasterne

release date: Feb 27, 2015
Flammekasterne
”Kushner er hurtigt på vej frem som en fænomenal og forbløffende romanforfatter.” – Jonathan Franzen Året er 1975, og Reno er netop ankommet til New York. Hun er fast besluttet på at transformere sin fascination af motorcykler og fart til kunst. I SOHOs gamle industribygninger forsøger en vild gruppe kunstnere at udviske grænserne mellem liv og kunst, sandhed og iscenesættelse. Uforfærdet overgiver Reno sig til byens eksperimenterende kunstscene – og til kunstneren Sandro Valera. Han er en oprørsk arving til et italiensk dæk- og motorcykelimperium, og sammen tager de til Italien, hvor hun hurtigt hvirvles ned i en undergrundsverden befolket af vestrefløjsaktivister og terrorister. Flammekasterne er en fandenivoldsk og forførende fortælling om kunst, drømme og acceleration. I centrum for det hele er en ung kvinde på kanten – passioneret, sårbar og frygtløs.

Τα Φλογοβόλα

release date: Dec 01, 2014
Τα Φλογοβόλα
Η RACHEL KUSHNER, με τη μεταλλική πρόζα της, μια πρόζα ακριβείας, στην οποία ισορροπεί αριστοτεχνικά η καλπάζουσα φαντασία με τη γείωση στην πραγματικότητα, μας ταξιδεύει στην Αμερική και στην Ιταλία της ηλεκτρικής δεκαετίας του 1970, αλλά και στα γεγονότα που οδήγησαν στον κόσμο όπως τον ξέρουμε σήμερα, στις παραμονές του Πρώτου αλλά και στην καρδιά του Δευτέρου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου. Μια νέα κοπέλα, η Ρίνο, παθιασμένη με το σκι, με την ταχύτητα, με τις μοτοσικλέτες, με την τέχνη, βρίσκεται στην καρδιά των γεγονότων, στα παλμικά πεδία των απανωτών επαναστάσεων, των αδιάκοπων, έστω και σπασμωδικών, αναζητήσεων. Διψάει για ζωή, για έρωτα, για εμπειρίες, με μοτοσικλέτες ή με μολότοφ, σε αίθουσες τέχνης της πρωτοπορίας στη Νέα Υόρκη ή σε οδομαχίες στους εξεγερμένους δρόμους της Ρώμης. Η Ρίνο, ως προσωποποίηση της φλεγόμενης νιότης, δε θέλει να είναι οπαδός ή παθητικός θεατής της ζωής, αλλά να ορίζει εκείνη τα γεγονότα. Το μυθιστόρημα Τα Φλογοβόλα ήταν υποψήφιο για το National Book Award και το Folio Prize, ενώ επιλέχθηκε ως το καλύτερο βιβλίο του 2013 από τους New York Times αλλά και τη Wall Street Journal, τους Los Angeles Times, το The New Yorker, το Time, το Flavorwire, το Salon, και το Slate.

Os lança chamas

release date: Jul 16, 2014
Os lança chamas
O ano é 1975 e Reno – uma jovem recém-formada que ganhou esse apelido por causa de sua cidade natal — acaba de se mudar para Nova York disposta a transformar em arte seu fascínio por motocicletas e velocidade. Sua chegada coincide com um período de ebulição no mundo artístico de Manhattan: pintores, escultores, fotógrafos, videomakers e agentes estão começando a colonizar a até então deserta e industrial região do SoHo, a desenvolver ações no East Village e a confundir os limites entre vida real e arte. Passional, vulnerável e corajosa, Reno se junta a um grupo que a submete a uma espécie de educação sentimental. Ela logo começa a namorar um artista plástico chamado Sandro Valera, herdeiro distante de um império de pneus e motocicletas italianos. Quando eles visitam a família de Sandro na Itália, Reno se vê envolvida com membros dos movimentos radicais que tomaram conta daquele país nos anos 1970, e uma traição a jogará nos submundos da clandestinidade. Ao questionar o entusiasmo juvenil e suas consequências, Rachel Kushner se lança em uma investigação intensa e envolvente sobre a mística do feminismo, da arte e do terrorismo. No centro de tudo está uma protagonista brilhantemente construída: uma jovem mulher vivendo no limite. Emocionante e corajoso, Os lança-chamas é um grande romance de uma escritora de talento e imaginação espetaculares. Eleito melhor livro do ano de 2013 pela New York Magazine e listado entre os 10 melhores livros do ano de 2013 por veículos como The New York Times Book Review; The Wall Street Journal; Vogue; O, The Oprah Magazine; Los Angeles Times; The San Francisco Chronicle; The New Yorker; Time; Flavorwire; Salon; Slate; The Daily Beast; Bookish, entre outros. “O segundo romance de Rachel Kushner é ao mesmo tempo cuidadosamente estruturado e estimulante. Uma leitura de tirar o fôlego.” The Telegraph “Eletrizante, viciante e inteligente.” O, The Oprah Magazine

I lanciafiamme

release date: Apr 09, 2014
I lanciafiamme
“Il miglior libro che ho letto quest’anno” Jonathan Franzen Manhattan, 1977. Da poco giunta dal Nevada, la giovane e bellissima Reno viene introdotta nel mondo artistico da Sandro Valera, italiano la cui famiglia possiede una celebre fabbrica di moto e pneumatici e con cui presto allaccia una relazione. In questa New York in cui tutti paiono brillanti e inafferrabili, in fuga da sé stessi e da relazioni stabili, dal proprio passato e da famiglie troppo ingombranti, la fusione tra l’arte e la vita è la prospettiva più elettrizzante: Reno trova lì la sua strada al sesso e all’amore e trasforma la sua grande passione per le due ruote in un progetto artistico. Ma sarà un viaggio in Italia a cambiarne per sempre l’esistenza. Mentre incalzano le notizie di rapimenti e attentati e dilagano gli scioperi operai dilaganti, Reno si ritrova immersa nella placida vita borghese della famiglia Valera, in una villa sul lago di Como che trasuda nostalgie fasciste, e poi all’improvviso proiettata nella Roma dei movimenti e delle manifestazioni, coinvolta in eventi di cui le sfugge la portata. I lanciafiamme, un irresistibile meccanismo di storie, aneddoti, monologhi, avventure e racconti, è un’esplorazione intensa e coraggiosa dell’arte, del femminino, della menzogna e del terrorismo scritto da un’autrice di incredibile forza, intelligenza e originalità. «Il libro più accanitamente discusso dell’anno» secondo Time, che ha lanciato l’autrice nel ristretto empireo dei più acclamati scrittori americani dei nostri anni, è ora in corso di traduzione in oltre quindici paesi.

Los lanzallamas

release date: Jan 01, 2014

The Flamethrowers

release date: Apr 02, 2013
The Flamethrowers
From the bestselling author whose debut novel, "Telex from Cuba," was nominated for a National Book Award comes an extraordinarily ambitious new novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s.

Télex desde Cuba

release date: May 10, 2012
Télex desde Cuba
En los años cincuenta la economía cubana está dominada por Estados Unidos, que ejerce un férreo control de la producción de azúcar y níquel. En la provincia de Oriente, donde están establecidas algunas de las grandes compañías norteamericanas, la clase dominante, formada por directivos estadounidenses y sus familias, lleva un estilo de vida casi colonial. Everly Lederer y K. C. Stites son dos niños que se han criado en ese pequeño paraíso de olor dulzón y clima amable, rodeados de criados y de una naturaleza exuberante, y desde el que apenas atisban la situación real de la isla. Mientras, en las montañas, un grupo de “barbudos” encabezado por Fidel Castro, comienza a organizarse y a poner en marcha una revolución que acabará con la caída del dictador Batista y la expulsión de los norteamericanos de Cuba. Y en La Habana, La Mazière, un oscuro traficante de armamento francés coquetea con una bailarina de cabaré que le facilitará el acceso a los cubanos más poderosos. A través de estos personajes y sus historias entrecruzadas, Télex desde Cuba nos ofrece una visión inédita de un periodo crucial de la historia contemporánea que certificó el fin de una época.

Telex from Cuba

release date: Jul 01, 2008
Telex from Cuba
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction The debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called “shimmering” (The New Yorker), “multilayered and absorbing” (The New York Times Book Review), and “gorgeously written” (Kirkus Reviews). Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom—three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics are a child''s dreamworld, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of the grown-ups around them—the mordant drinking and illicit loves, the race hierarchies and violence. In Havana, a thousand kilometers and a world away from the American colony, a cabaret dancer meets a French agitator named Christian de La Mazière, whose seductive demeanor can''t mask his shameful past. Together they become enmeshed in the brewing political underground. When Fidel and Raúl Castro lead a revolt from the mountains above the cane plantation, torching the sugar and kidnapping a boat full of "yanqui" revelers, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony humming. Though their parents remain blissfully untouched by the forces of history, the children hear the whispers of what is to come. Kushner''s first novel is a tour de force, haunting and compelling, with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place.

David Korty

release date: Jan 01, 2008
David Korty
David Korty''s recent work portrays a stylistically complex space in which his calligraphic alphabet of pencil lines, paint strokes, and colour forms coalesce into dense, seamless compositions. the simple images of everyday life - women reading magazines, couples milling about, figures waiting in line, and a man surveying a botanical garden betray the seeming mundanity of the subjects and reveal a kind of slow-burning introspection. the stillness of the figures and shapes in the paintings give way to a roving movement of the eye and hand. A voracious curiosity that asks us to look closer at the things which are already in front of us. Published alongside exhibitions at Sadie Coles HQ, London and Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles in 2008. English text.

Yoshitaka Amano

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Yoshitaka Amano
Essay by Rachel Kushner. Foreword by Carlo McCormick.
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