Bøger af Raven Leilani

"En stram, skarp og sjov bog om at være ung nu. Den er brutal – og genial." – ZADIE SMITHFormidabel amerikansk debut.Vinder af Kirkus Prize for FictionVinder af Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeVinder af National Book CriticsCircle Award for FictionLonglistet til Andrew CarnegieMedal for Excellence in FictionLonglistet til Women’s Prize for FictionBarack Obamas yndlingsromanGlød handler om en ung sort kvinde, Edie. Hun tumler igennem sine 20’ere, bor i en delelejlighed i Bushwick, stempler ind og ud af kontoret, hvor hun arbejder, og træffer i øvrigt en række upassende sexvalg. Indtil hun en dag møder Eric, ældre hvid familiefar fra New Jersey, som lever med sin kone i et åbent ægteskab – med regler.Edie bliver hurtigt den perfekte, sorte rollemodel for familien, der gerne vil virke fordomsfri og moderne, men ikke er det, når man kradser en smule i overfladen.Raven Leilanis GLØD er et portræt af en ung kvinde, der søger mening med sin tilværelse – sin lyst og sin vrede – i en forvirret tid. Romanen er både en uhyggeligt hjerteskærende og humoristisk beskrivelse af, hvor vanskeligt det kan være at tro på sit eget talent, og hvordan vores omgivelser er med til at skabe os som individer.

Razor sharp. provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender,&i> Luster&/i> is a painfully funny coming-of-age story told by a fresh new voice.

"Un hombre mayor es una maravilla porque lleva treinta y ocho aänos pagando las facturas del gas, ha tenido salmonelosis y ha visto los informes sobre el cambio climâatico y aun asâi no se ha quitado la vida, pero lo cierto es que, despuâes de haber sido mujer durante veintitrâes aänos, despuâes de la torsiâon ovâarica, de los prâestamos de estudios y los nazis de nuevo cuäno con sus camisas de vestir, resulta que yo tambiâen sigo viva y que en realidad esta es la proeza mâas importante"--Back cover.

Die dreiundzwanzigjährige Edie lebt in Bushwick, Brooklyn, und hält sich nach ihrem abgebrochenen Kunststudium finanziell mit einem Assistenzjob in einem Verlag und emotional mit wechselnden Liebschaften über Wasser. Dann beginnt sie eine Affäre mit Eric, einem weißen Mann, der in einer offenen Ehe lebt und fast doppelt so alt ist wie sie. Während sich Edie mit Erics Ehefrau und vor allem mit der Adoptivtochter des Paares, Akila, einem Schwarzen Mädchen, anfreundet, verschieben sich alle Perspektiven: Edie scheint die einzige andere Schwarze Person zu sein, die Akila kennt, und die Beziehung zwischen den beiden wird bald wichtiger als alles andere. Edie muss sich mit ihrer eigenen Einsamkeit und dem schon immer in ihrem Leben vorhandenen Rassismus und Sexismus plötzlich neu auseinandersetzen.„Das Debüt des Jahres." - The Guardian Raven Leilani ist eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin. Nach dem College und Studium in New York arbeitete sie zunächst als Visual Artist. Hitze ist ihr Debütroman.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, O Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Shondaland, The New York Times Book Review, Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, Kirkus, Time, Good Housekeeping, InStyle, The Guardian, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Self, The New York Public Library, Town & Country, Wired, Boston.com, Happy Mag, New Statesman, Vox, Shelf Awareness, Chatelaine, The Undefeated, Apartment Therapy, Brooklyn Based, The End of the World Review, Exile in Bookville, Lit Reactor, BookPage, i-DA FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Barack ObamaA BEST BOOK FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS: AV Club, Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine/The Strategist, The RumpusWINNER of the NBCC John Leonard Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER"So delicious that it feels illicit . . . Raven LeilaniΓÇÖs first novel reads like summer: sentences like ice that crackle or melt into a languorous drip; plot suddenly, wildly flying forward like a bike down a hill." ΓÇöJazmine Hughes, The New York Times Book ReviewΓÇ£An irreverent intergenerational tale of race and class thatΓÇÖs blisteringly smart and fan-yourself sexy.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöMichelle Hart, O: The Oprah MagazineNo one wants what no one wants.And how do we even know what we want? How do we know weΓÇÖre ready to take it?Edie is stumbling her way through her twentiesΓÇösharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriageΓÇöwith rules.As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics werenΓÇÖt hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into EricΓÇÖs homeΓÇöthough not by Eric. She becomes a hesitant ally to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie may be the only Black woman young Akila knows.Irresistibly unruly and strikingly beautiful, razor-sharp and slyly comic, sexually charged and utterly absorbing, Raven LeilaniΓÇÖs Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her lifeΓÇöher hunger, her angerΓÇöin a tumultuous era. It is also a haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent, and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way.