Bøger af Patricia Engel

VIDA - Noveller. Patricia Engel kortlægger landskaber, både ydre (New Jersey, New York, Miami, Bogotá) og indre, I denne fantastiske debut, hvor den gennemgående figur er Sabina - seriøs, vittig, skiftevis forsigtig og hensynsløs, åben for forandringer, men skeptisk over for deres varighed.

Heralded as "sparkling. . . rich and compelling" in a rave for The Washington Post, The Faraway World is a collection of ten haunting, award-winning stories set across the Americas that was chosen as a New York Times Editors' Pick and Amazon Best Book of the Month, earned a starred Kirkus review, and garnered effusive praise from Esquire, TODAY, and elsewhere—another critical triumph for Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New York Times Bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick.

edited by Penelope Banou, Georgios Boudalis, Patricia Engel, Stephen R. Hill, Joseph Schirò and Jedert Vodopivec TomazicDas Buch "Artists¿ Paper: A Case in Paper History" geht der Frage "warum wählt ein Künstler ein bestimmtes Papier für seine Werke" nach. Ist die Wahl der Verfügbarkeit oder einem leistbaren Preis zuzuschreiben oder wird sie doch aus künstlerischem Antrieb heraus getroffen. Nikolai Astrup, Micheline de Bellefroid, Auguste Beuret, Johann Martin Schmidt und Henri Cueco sowie dänische und belgische Künstlergruppen werden als Beispiele genommen. Aber auch indische, türkische, japanische und aztekische Künstlertraditionen werden untersucht.Darüber hinaus werden traditionelle und "cutting edge" Untersuchungsmethoden von Papier als Informationsträger präsentiert.The book brings together the latest research results concerning paper used by artists.The scribe's or printer's choice for a certain kind of paper tells us about the condition of the local paper-making craft, the availability of a raw material, trade, customs and habits; where a particular paper is chosen for a drawing or a printed work of art, artistic intent of the artist is added to all the above.The book deals with all these aspects. The newly found information is relevant for both art history and conservation of art. From Renaissance till today, single aspects are highlighted and are meant to further stimulate that kind of study, combining research in conservation and (art) history.

"Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotâa, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. We see Talia's parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see them leave Bogotâa with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on American soil. We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro's deportation and the family's splintering--the costs they've all been living with ever since"--

From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick, comes an exquisite collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories set across the Americas and linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise.

The extraordinary new novel from award-winning author, Patricia Engel, The Veins of the Ocean is a heartrending story of one woman's devotion to her death row-convicted brother and her journey away from a painful past