Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great Depression Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding the rails and singing in a western swing band. Long holds shady political aspirations, but was once a WWI sniper--and his right hand is a mysterious elder cowboy, a vestige of the violent old west. Val quickly finds himself entranced by their lives. One day, Eve flees home with a valuable painting in tow, and Long recruits Val to hit the road with a mission of tracking her down. Journeying from ramshackle Hoovervilles to San Francisco nightclubs to the swamps of Florida, Val's search for Eve narrows, and he soon turns up secrets that could spark formidable changes for all of them. In The Trackers, singular American writer Charles Frazier conjures up the lives of everyday people during an extraordinary period of history that bears uncanny resemblance to our own. With the keen perceptions of humanity and transcendent storytelling that have made him beloved for decades, Frazier has created a powerful and timeless new classic.

The Trackers

a novel

Thirteen moons

A Novel

Trackers

Inman, a wounded soldier, walks away from the front during the Civil War to return to his prewar sweetheart, Ada, who desperately works to revive a struggling farm.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. With his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins, Frazier has created his most memorable heroine. Before the children, Luce was content with the reimbursements of the rich Appalachian landscape, choosing to live apart from the small community around her. But the coming of the children changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful, dangerous ways. In a lean, tight narrative, Nightwoods resonates with the timelessness of a great work of art. “Impossible to shake.”—Entertainment Weekly “Fantastic.”—The Washington Post “Astute and compassionate.”—The Boston Globe

Nightwoods

Zimna góra

Zdzisława Lewikowa

Zimna gora

Neşe Olcaytu

De blauwe bergen. - Na zwaar gewond te zijn geraakt in de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog, deserteert een soldaat en begint aan de lange, gevaarlijke thuisreis naar North Carolina.

Soğuk dağ

Hideghegy

Der junge Inman erlebt den Sezessionskrieg als grauenhaft und sinnlos. Er desertiert und begibt sich auf den gefährlichen Weg nach Hause zu seiner grossen Liebe Ada. Seine Reise führt ihn durch ein von Zerstörung gezeichnetes Land.

Roman

Unterwegs nach

The American Civil War provides the backdrop for this tale. Inman is wounded in battle and treks home to North Carolina, where Ada waits for him on a run-down farm. Ada has been helped by the vitality of Ruby, whose will to live has kept Ada's own life afloat.

Холодная гора

A la fin de la guerre de Sécession, Inman, un sudiste blessé à la bataille de Petersburg, déserte pour regagner à pied sa région natale, la Caroline du Nord, où l'attend Ada, la jeune femme qu'il aime. Tandis qu'il traverse les paysages dévastés des Etats confédérés au bord de la défaite, Ada, restée seule après la mort de son père, essaie tant bien que mal de survivre à Cold Mountain, le petit village de montagne où est situé son domaine. Alors que l'heure de leurs retrouvailles approche, Inman et Ada affrontent, chacun à sa manière, le monde radicalement transformé dans lequel ils vont devoir vivre. Magnifique histoire d'amour, fresque superbe vibrant des accents du Sud, Retour à Cold Mountain a été salué par la critique comme l'" Odyssée américaine ". Ce nouveau livre culte a remporté en 1997 le National Book Award, le plus prestigieux des prix littéraires américains, décerné, entre autres, à William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth et Cormac McCarthy.

Retour à Cold Mountain

¿Hasta dónde llegará William Cooper para defender los derechos de los indios americanos? A los doce años, William Cooper recibe una llave, un mapa y un caballo, y se enfrenta al inexplorado paisaje de los indios cherokee, donde debe regentar un destartalado almacén. Allí encontrará el hogar y el padre que nunca tuvo. Adoptado por el jefe Oso y su tribu, Cooper descubrirá el compromiso y el sacrificio, llegando a convertirse en el mítico jefe blanco de los indios. El destino le hará ser testigo de excepción de momentos clave de la Historia norteamericana, como el dramático Sendero de Lágrimas que produjo la reubicación de los cherokee en 1838 o la Guerra Civil americana. Inspirada en la figura del gran defensor de los derechos de la nación india, William Holland Thomas, la esperada segunda novela de Charles Frazier es la emocionante crónica de una vida marcada por la aventura, el honor y el desencanto, una vida con un protagonista de excepción: un personaje a la altura de los grandes héroes americanos. «Mágica, la lección de Historia de Trece lunas es fascinante y conmovedora... Encontrareis mucho que admirar.» USA Today «Sublime... Trece lunas trae a la mente el asombro ante la naturaleza que produjera Cold Mountain, además de la consternación, y su convicción de que el amor, sin importar cuán torturado e inexplicable sea, puede definir una vida, ser algo fascinante, vívido y vivo.» Newsweek «Tiene el poder de inspirar a futuras generaciones de escritores... A aquellos que sencillamente se deleitan en la experiencia literaria, Trece lunas les deparará la inmensa satisfacción de internarse en un viaje literario de esta magnitud.» Los Angeles Times «Trece lunas resucita un mundo desaparecido, el de los grandiosos nativos norteamericanos y la historia americana, un maravilloso regalo para todos, cortesía de uno de nuestros mejores escritores.» Kirkus Review «Una novela feroz y convincente... Frazier es un narrador nato, a través de su relato picaresco nos encontramos con una elegía y grandes temas.» Boston Globe

Trece lunas

Verstört, sprachlos, irgendwie zurückgeblieben – so kommen die Zwillinge Dolores und Frank bei Tante Luce an. Vermutlich waren sie dabei, als ihre Mutter starb, ermordet von Bud, einem brutalen Gelegenheitsgauner und dem ehemaligen Lebensgefährten der Mutter. Luce gewinnt langsam das Vertrauen der Zwillinge, und auch sie selbst, die Außenseiterin, die in einem verfallenden Sommerhaus in North Carolina lebt, scheint zur Ruhe zu kommen. Auf eine leichte, aufregend unspektakuläre Weise gelingt es Charles Frazier, eine Handvoll fragiler Menschen vor den Gefahren zu retten, die sie immer enger zu umschließen drohen.

Ins Dunkel hinein

Simplified Chinese edition of Cold Mountain

A la fin de la guerre de Sécession, Inman, un soldat sudiste blessé à la bataille de Petersburg, déserte pour retrouver Ada, la femme qu'il aime. En chemin, il traverse les paysages dévastés des Etats confédérés, tandis qu'Ada essaie tant bien que mal de survivre dans les montagnes de Caroline du Nord.

romanzo

Ritorno a Cold mountain

"A rare and extraordinary book . . . heart-stopping . . . spellbinding."--San Francisco Chronicle "A page turner that attains the status of literature."--Newsweek "Finely drawn, full of dark beauty and presentiment."--New Yorker "An astonishing first novel."--New York Review of Books Charles Frazier's debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history in 1997 when it stood at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now reissued for its twentieth year, this extraordinary tale of a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land. Adapted into an Oscar nominated movie starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and a 2015 opera co-commissioned between Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, Cold Mountain portrays an era that continues to speak eloquently to our time. "A haunting, beautifully written tale."--USA Today "Strikingly beautiful."--Newsday "A richly rewarding first novel . . . Wonderfully convincing, finely detailed." --Christian Science Monitor

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