Bøger af Reif Larsen

T S Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. T S makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks.

A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the worldWhen twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum's hallowed halls. T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of "rims," and the pleasures of McDonald's, among other things. We come to see the world through T.S.'s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself. As he travels away from the ranch and his family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. A secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of T.S.'s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. As T.S. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery. All that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed into science's inner circle. For all its shine, fame seems more highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to find. T.S.'s trip begins at the Copper Top Ranch and the last known place he stands is Washington, D.C., but his journey's movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut.Now a major motion picture directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Kyle Catlett and Helena Bonham Carter.

T. S. Spivet est un jeune prodige de douze ans, passionné par la cartographie et les illustrations scientifiques. Un jour, le musée Smithsonian l'appelle: le très prestigieux prix Baird lui a été décerné et il est invité à venir faire un discours. À l'insu de tous, il décide alors de traverser les États-Unis dans un train de marchandises pour rejoindre Washington DC... Mais là-bas personne ne se doute qu'il n'est qu'un enfant. Muni d'un télescope, de quatre compas et des Mémoires de son arrière-arrière-grand-mère, T. S. entreprend un voyage initiatique qui lui permettra peut-ètre enfin de comprendre comment marche le monde... Notes, cartes et dessins se mèlent au récit avec un humour et une fantaisie irrésistibles.J'ai été ébloui par le talent de Reif Larsen... entre Mark Twain, Thomas Pynchon, et Little Miss Sunshine... ce livre est un trésor... Stephen King.

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T S makes sense of his chaotic family life by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks. He is brilliant, and the Smithsonian Institution agrees, though when they award him a major scientific prize they don't suspect for a moment that he is twelve years old.