Rebecca Makkai

When her favorite patron, a book-loving ten-year-old, runs away from overbearing parents who force him to attend anti-gay classes with a celebrity pastor, children's librarian Lucy Hull flees with the boy and discovers that they are being pursued by an anonymous adversary.

The Borrower

A couple living on a historic estate that once housed an artist's colony make a discovery that leads them into a thrilling journey into the past as the secrets of the house and the people who lived there are revealed.

The Hundred-Year House

A spellbinding short story collection from a master of the form, the acclaimed author of The Hundred-Year House Rebecca Makkai's first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the acclaimed writer returns with a highly anticipated collection of short stories marked with her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart. A reality show producer manipulates two contestants into falling in love, while her own relationship falls apart. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young boy has a revelation about his father's past when a renowned Romanian violinist plays a concert in their home. In an unnamed country, a composer records the folk songs of two women from a village on the brink of destruction. Makkai has been anthologized four times in The Best American Short Stories as well as The Best American Nonrequired Reading. These wide-ranging and deeply moving stories?some inspired by her family history?will delight her many fans, as well as readers of Lorrie Moore, Jim Shepard, and Karen Russell.

Stories

Music for Wartime

WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD - BARBARA GITTINGS LITERATURE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES FICTION AWARD 'Stirring, spellbinding and full of life' Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have the virus himself. The only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster.

The Great Believers

Wierzyliśmy jak nikt

In Chicago maakt in de jaren tachtig de aidsepidemie veel slachtoffers onder een vriendengroep; in 2015 gaat de zus van een van hen in Parijs op zoek naar haar dochter die in een sekte zit.

Een stralende toekomst

I grandi sognatori

Die Optimisten

Lucy Hull, una joven resignada a trabajar como bibliotecaria de libros infantiles en un remoto pueblo de Missouri, ayuda habitualmente a su lector preferido - Ian Drake, un niño de diez años obsesionado con la lectura - a escoger libros a escondidas de su madre, una mujer autoritaria que pasa por la censura todo lo que el niño quiere leer. La inercia existencial de Lucy la lleva a tener una vida de pocas emociones, hasta que se topa con un dilema moral cuando conoce el plan que ha preparado Ian para escapar del control de su madre.

El devorador de libros / The Borrower

En 1985 à Chicago, le sida fait son apparition. Yale Tishman, un jeune galeriste, voit son entourage frappé par l'épidémie. Bientôt, il ne lui reste plus que Fiona, la jeune soeur de son meilleur ami. Trente ans plus tard, celle-ci part pour Paris à la recherche de sa fille, enrôlée dans une secte. Elle repense alors à cette période noire de son enfance. Andrew Carnegie medal 2019.

Les optimistes

Numa tarde de novembro de 1985, um grupo de amigos reúne-se em Chicago. Bebem cubas-libres ao som de Fly Me to the Moon num ambiente de celebração forçada. Pois Nico morreu. Nico era brilhante e belo. Flores e lágrimas não lhe farão justiça. A missa fúnebre decorre numa igreja a trinta quilómetros de distância. Apenas a família – que o abandonara anos antes – está presente. É uma cerimónia breve marcada pelo constrangimento.Jovem e gay, Nico é uma das primeiras vítimas que o vírus da SIDA faz no seu círculo de amigos. Um dos mais próximos, Yale Tishman, acompanhou-o até ao fim e vive agora entre o medo da doença e a urgência de construir um futuro. Mas enquanto a sua carreira floresce, a sua vida pessoal vai ficando cada vez mais limitada. Um a um, Tishman vê os amigos perderem a vida. Até restar apenas Fiona, irmã mais nova de Nico. Trinta anos mais tarde, reencontramos Fiona, agora em Paris. Alojada em casa de um velho amigo, Richard Campo, um fotógrafo que documentou de perto a epidemia de Chicago, Fiona relembra a sua juventude. A sua capacidade de amar – a filha que entretanto teve, o marido que abandonou, os amigos que sobreviveram – foi modelada por esses anos. Todos se afastaram, deixando-a só para enfrentar as consequências de três décadas ensombradas pela perda.

Os Otimistas

A collection of bookstore erotica by contemporary poets, fiction authors & comic artists.

A Bookstore Erotica Anthology

Between the Covers

From the acclaimed author of The Great Believers, an original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield. Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents’ wealth but nevertheless finds herself living in their carriage house; Gracie, her mother, who claims she can tell your lot in life by looking at your teeth; and Bruce, her step-father, stockpiling supplies for the Y2K apocalypse and perpetually late for his tee time. Then there’s Violet Devohr, Zee’s great-grandmother, who they say took her own life somewhere in the vast house, and whose massive oil portrait still hangs in the dining room. Violet’s portrait was known to terrify the artists who resided at the house from the 1920s to the 1950s, when it served as the Laurelfield Arts Colony—and this is exactly the period Zee’s husband, Doug, is interested in. An out-of-work academic whose only hope of a future position is securing a book deal, Doug is stalled on his biography of the poet Edwin Parfitt, once in residence at the colony. All he needs to get the book back on track—besides some motivation and self-esteem—is access to the colony records, rotting away in the attic for decades. But when Doug begins to poke around where he shouldn’t, he finds Gracie guards the files with a strange ferocity, raising questions about what she might be hiding. The secrets of the hundred-year house would turn everything Doug and Zee think they know about her family on its head—that is, if they were to ever uncover them. In this brilliantly conceived, ambitious, and deeply rewarding novel, Rebecca Makkai unfolds a generational saga in reverse, leading the reader back in time on a literary scavenger hunt as we seek to uncover the truth about these strange people and this mysterious house. With intelligence and humor, a daring narrative approach, and a lovingly satirical voice, Rebecca Makkai has crafted an unforgettable novel about family, fate and the incredible surprises life can offer. For readers of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle

A Novel

Ian e Lucy: lettori per passione ribelli per natura amici per caso.

Rebecca Makkai

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