farrar straus and giroux byr feb 2023 (4 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Longlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeA taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo.But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo's first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 160 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Young, Amy (illustrator). Neuware - A laugh-out-loud retelling of The Three Little Pigs, The Three Little Guinea Pigs is perfect for fans of fairytales and guinea pigs alike. This clever story by prolific children's book author Erica S. Perl and dynamic illustrator Amy Young makes a perfect read-aloud and includes nonfiction backmatter with additional fun facts about guinea pigs.Once upon a time there were three little pigs. three little guinea pigs!Their names were Rosie, Minty, and Pumpkin. They lived with their mama in a cozy little house.Then they bid her a fond farewell and set off on their own. So far, so good.But what will they do if a hungry fox comes along Will they go wheek, wheek, wheek all the way home Or can they find a way to save their fluffy behinds.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An astounding debut.'-Adrienne Raphel, The New York Times Book ReviewA dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undoneA woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real.One night, she meets another woman at a bar, and an escape hatch swings open in the floor of her life. She falls into a consuming affair-into queerness, polyamory, kink, power and loss, humiliation and freedom, and an enormous surge of desire that lets her leave herself behind.Maggie Millner's captivating, seductive debut is a love story in poems that explores obsession, gender, identity, and the art and act of literary transformation. In rhyming couplets and prose vignettes, Couplets chronicles the strictures, structures, and pitfalls of relationships-the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments-and how the people we love can show us who we truly are.'An endlessly inventive, wise, exhilarating book.'-Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A stunning, intimate collection by the late great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski. . . I think I sought wisdom(without resignation) in poemsand also a certain calm madness.I found, much later, a moment's joyand melancholy's dark contentment.In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world's most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the rhythms of a city street on the page and the steady beat of the passage of time against it ('Roads cannot be destroyed // Even if peonies cover them / smelling like eternity') and writes of the endless struggle between stasis and change, between movement and stillness ('We knew / it would be the same / as always // It would all go back to normal'). Mary Oliver called Zagajewski 'the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time,' and Philip Boehm wrote in The New York Times Book Review that his poems 'pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence.' True Life, first published in Polish in 2019 and translated with genius by Clare Cavanagh, reveals the astonishing, immortal depths of Zagajewski's insight and artistry.