Bøger af Ben Lerner

”Romanens fremtid er lige her.” SALLY ROONEY Et mesterligt fortalt drama om fortrængte familiehemmeligheder, amerikansk identitet og sprogets magt. Topeka, Kansas, sidst i 1990erne. I centrum står high school-eleven Adam Gordon og hans forældre, psykologerne Jane og Jonathan. Jane er en berømt feministisk forfatter, og Jonathan er ekspert i at nå ind til problematiske teenagedrenge. Adam selv er en dygtig debattør og freestylerapper med et spirende poetisk talent. Herfra spindes tråde fremad og tilbage i tiden. Fra forældrenes opvækst og første møde til Adams liv som voksen familiefar i Brooklyn. Fra at begære sin næstes hustru til en fatal billardkugle i en kælder. TOPEKASKOLEN er en historie om en familie, om hvordan man opdrager en søn til at begå sig i en verden gennemsyret af giftig maskulinitet, og samtidig en forhistorie til vores samtid: den offentlige samtales sammenbrud, den nye højrebølge og den hvide mands identitetskrise. Ben Lerners roman er blevet hyldet af kritikerne og var blandt finalisterne til Pulitzerprisen 2020. ”En svimlende intelligent forfatter. Et godt sted at starte for alle, der ønsker at forstå nutidens USA bedre.” THE TIMES "Modig, vild og, ikke mindst, en kærlighedshandling.” OCEAN VUONG

Den begavede og fuldstændig upålidelige unge amerikanske digter Adam Gordon er på stipendieophold i Madrid. Idéen er egentlig, at han skal forske, men han bruger i stedet det meste af sine vågne timer på at ryge hash og drive omkring i den spanske hovedstad. Han er en fremmed i byen og i sproget, men usikkerheden omkring hans egen identitet stikker dybere end som så og berør hele kernen i hans kunstneriske virke. Som dagene går, kommer Adams ”forskning” da også til at handle mere og mere om selve tilværelsen – og imens vokser hans mistanke om, at alle hans relationer, ja, hele hans liv, i virkeligheden er et lige så udspekuleret fupnummer, som den poesi, han skriver.Farvel til Atocha er en sjov og intelligent bog om kunstens og kunstnerens plads i vores senmoderne samfund.”En af USA’s bedste forfattere.” – JYLLANDS-POSTEN”Et værk så selvlysende originalt i stil og form, at det fremstår som et varsel, en komet fra fremtiden.” – THE GUARDIAN”Hylende morsom og knitrende intelligent, fuldt ud levende og original i hver eneste sætning.” – JONATHAN FRANZEN”Helt og aldeles charmerende.” – PAUL AUSTER

The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance.

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARA TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA''S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio PrizeWinner of the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award ALSO NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Esquire, NPR, Vogue, Amazon, Kirkus, The Times (UK), Buzzfeed, Vanity Fair, The Telegraph (UK), Financial Times (UK), Lit Hub, The Times Literary Supplement (UK), The New York Post, Daily Mail (UK), The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian (UK), Electric Literature, SPY.com, and the New York Public Library From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New RightAdam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of ΓÇÖ97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting ΓÇ£lost boysΓÇ¥ to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren EberheartΓÇöwho is, unbeknownst to Adam, his fatherΓÇÖs patientΓÇöinto the social scene, to disastrous effect.Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, Ben Lerner''s The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: JaneΓÇÖs reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, JonathanΓÇÖs marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men.

"En ekstremt morsom og politisk bog." - Guardian

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize and internationally celebrated by critics and readers alike, here is a dazzling and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.

A stunning, urgent, and original novel from Ben Lerner (The Topeka School and Leaving the Atocha Station) about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.Winner of The Paris Review's 2012 Terry Southern Prize A Finalist for the 2014 Folio Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his own mortality and the prospect of fatherhood in a city that might soon be underwater. A writer whose work Jonathan Franzen has called "hilarious . . . cracklingly intelligent . . . and original in every sentence," Lerner captures what it's like to be alive now when the difficulty of imagining a future is changing our relationship to both the present and the past. Named One of the Best Books of the Year By: The New Yorker The New York Times Book Review The Wall Street Journal The Village Voice The Boston Globe NPR Vanity Fair The Guardian (London) The L Magazine The Times Literary Supplement (London) The Globe and Mail (Toronto) The Huffington Post Gawker Flavorwire San Francisco Chronicle The Kansas City Star The Jewish Daily Forward Tin House

Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award uses "broken sonnets" to explore complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture.

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