Bøger af Hilary Leichter

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn't there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A city dweller's dream come true! But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home, and the shape of the world.Terrace Story follows the characters who suffer these repercussions and reverberations: the little family of three, their future now deeply uncertain, and those who orbit their fragile universe. The distance and love between these characters expands limitlessly, across generations. How far can the mind travel when it's looking for something that is gone? Where do we put our loneliness, longing, and desire? What do we do with the emotions that seem to stretch beyond the body, beyond the boundaries of life and death?Based on the National Magazine Award-winning story, Hilary Leichter's profound second novel asks how we nurture love when death looms over every moment. From one of our most innovative and daring writers, Terrace Story is an astounding meditation on loss, a reverie about extinction, and a map for where to go next.

¿Cuántos trabajos has tenido en los últimos años? ¿Alguno ha sido mínimamente serio? La protagonista de esta novela hace de todo: fregar en un barco pirata, ordenar armarios de zapatos, llevar las cenizas de su jefe, trabajar para un asesino a sueldo... Y, sin embargo, parece que nunca ha estado más lejos de tener un empleo estable, aunque ella continúa soñando con lograrlo algún día, en un mundo en el que pensar a largo plazo se antoja difícil de por sí, y más si tienes dieciocho novios y un fantasma.Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Hilary Liechter es una escritora residente en Brooklyn, Nueva York. Sus textos han aparecido en publicaciones como The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times o Conjunctions. Ha sido profesora en la Universidad de Columbia y en la actualidad es profesora invitada de literatura en la Universidad de Leipzig. «Algo temporal» es su primera novela.

With the piercing originality and uncommon generosity of the acclaimed debut Temporary, Hilary Leichter's Terrace Story is an intimate and expansive exploration of space and time, a fable about family, and a highly original daydream about where we go from here.

Eighteen boyfriends, twenty-three jobs, and one ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice: Temporary casts a hilarious and tender eye toward the struggle for happiness under late capitalism.

Aided by her bespoke agency and a cast of boyfriends - each allotted their own task (the handy boyfriend, the culinary boyfriend, the real estate boyfriend) - she is happy to fill in for any of us: for the Chairman of the Board, a ghost, a murderer, a mother.