Bøger af Rumaan Alam

Amanda og Clay er taget på ferie til Long Island, i nydelsesfuld forventning om at lægge afstand til hverdagen i New York, kvalitetstid med deres to teenagebørn og en smagsprøve på det gode liv i den afsidesliggende luksusvilla de har lejet for en uges tid. Men en sen aften banker det på døren. G.H. og Ruth er et ældre ægtepar – det er deres villa, og de er grebet af panik. Et pludseligt strømsvigt har mørklagt Manhattan, siger de. Men herude på landet, hvor tv’et nu har sort skærm, internettet er nede, og der ingen mobildækning er, er det svært at vide, hvad man skal tro.Kan Amanda og Clay stole på parret – og omvendt? Hvad er der sket i New York? Er ferievillaen, isoleret fra al civilisation, egentlig et ufarligt sted for de to familier? Og kan de være trygge i hinandens selskab?Læg verden bag jer er en urovækkende pageturner om isolation og privilegier, klasse og race. Med lydhørhed, vid og elegance kaster Rumaan Alam et knivskarpt blik på den tid, vi lever i lige nu.

It's 1985, and like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself equally overwhelmed and overjoyed by her newborn son. Struggling to balance the demands of new motherhood, Rebecca leans on Priscilla, the family nanny, who brings much-needed order to the household even as she shakes Rebecca's perception of the world. As questions of race enter Rebecca's cloistered life for the first time, she has the opportunity to finally confront the blind spots of her own privilege.Rebecca feels so profoundly connected to the woman who has taught her what it means to be a mother that when Priscilla dies unexpectedly in childbirth, it seems strangely natural for Rebecca to step forward to adopt the baby. But she is unprepared for what it means to be a white mother with a black son. As she soon learns, navigating motherhood will be a matter of learning how to raise two children whom she loves with equal ferocity, but whom the world is determined to treat differently.With the same warmth and psychological acuity that defined his debut, Rumaan Alam has crafted a remarkable novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight to keep.

A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrongAmanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation:a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home theyve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older coupleits their house, and theyve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural areawith the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone serviceits hard to know what to believe.Should Amanda and Clay trust thiscoupleand vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other? Suspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alams third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class.Leave the World Behindexplores how our closest bonds are reshapedand unexpected new ones are forgedin moments of crisis.