Bøger af Sigrid Nunez

Da en kvinde uventet mister sit livs bedste ven og mentor, finder hun sig selv dobbelt bebyrdet af den uønskede hund, han har efterladt. Hendes egen kamp mod sorgen intensiveres, dels af den stumme lidelse fra hunden – en kæmpestor granddanois traumatiseret af sin herres uforklarlige forsvinden – dels af risikoen for at miste sin lejlighed i New York: hunde er forbudt i hendes bygning.Problemerne hober sig op, men en rig og overraskende belønning venter dem begge to.Om forfatterenDen amerikanske forfatter Sigrid Nunez vandt National Book Award for romanen 'En ven'. En anmelder i The New Yorker kalder hende “en mester i psykologisk skarpsindighed”.

En kvinde fortæller, hun besøger en veninde som ligger for døden med kræft. Afklaret, stædigt og ud af det blå kommer veninden med et forslag der skal vise sig at få en afgørende betydning. For hun har besluttet sig for at ende sit liv på sine egne betingelser, og hun vil have fortælleren til at hjælpe sig. – Opfordringen accepteres tøvende. ’Jeg lover’, siger den kræftsyge, ’at arrangere det hele så sjovt som muligt’.Hvad der følger, er en usædvanlig beretning om et venskab udsat for den ultimative test: at være vidne til dets afslutning.Begivenhederne giver også et portræt af den måde vi lever på nu i en verden med endeløse bekymringer – i en tid hvor menneskelige relationer forandrer sig dramatisk.Den amerikanske forfatter Sigrid Nunez vandt National Book Award for romanen En ven (Café Monde, foråret 2023), og flere kritikere vurderer opfølgeren hvad går du igennem som endnu bedre (Café Monde, sommeren 2024).

The paths of two women from different walks of life intersect amid counterculture of the 1960s in this haunting and provocative novel from the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend

En kvinde fortæller, hun besøger en veninde som ligger for døden med kræft. Afklaret, stædigt og ud af det blå kommer veninden med et forslag der skal vise sig at få en afgørende betydning. For hun har besluttet sig for at ende sit liv på sine egne betingelser, og hun vil have fortælleren til at hjælpe sig. – Opfordringen accepteres tøvende. ’Jeg lover’, siger den kræftsyge, ’at arrangere det hele så sjovt som muligt’.Hvad der følger, er en usædvanlig beretning om et venskab udsat for den ultimative test: at være vidne til dets afslutning.Begivenhederne giver også et portræt af den måde vi lever på nu i en verden med endeløse bekymringer – i en tid hvor menneskelige relationer forandrer sig dramatisk.Den amerikanske forfatter Sigrid Nunez vandt National Book Award for romanen 'En ven' (Café Monde, foråret 2023), og flere kritikere vurderer opfølgeren hvad går du igennem som endnu bedre (Café Monde, sommeren 2024).

Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another's distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez's new novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself.

"The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another's distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez's ... novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself"--

Da en kvinde uventet mister sit livs bedste ven og mentor, finder hun sig selv dobbelt bebyrdet af den uønskede hund, han har efterladt. Hendes egen kamp mod sorgen intensiveres, dels af den stumme lidelse fra hunden – en kæmpestor granddanois traumatiseret af sin herres uforklarlige forsvinden – dels af risikoen for at miste sin lejlighed i New York: hunde er forbudt i hendes bygning.Problemerne hober sig op, men en rig og overraskende belønning venter dem begge to.Derfor udgiver forlaget bogen:Det er en fantastisk, koncentreret, klar og bevægende historie om kærlighed, venskab, sorg, helbredelse og det magiske bånd mellem en kvinde og hendes hund.Om forfatterenDen amerikanske forfatter Sigrid Nunez vandt National Book Award for romanen 'En ven'. En anmelder i The New Yorker kalder hende “en mester i psykologisk skarpsindighed”.

"Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel, The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past"--

This new novel offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history. From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through.

The new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of THE FRIEND'When I open one of Sigrid Nunez's novels, I almost always know immediately: This is where I want to be' NEW YORK TIMES'I just adore Sigrid Nunez' PAULA HAWKINSElegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. The Vulnerables completes a meditation on our contemporary era that Nunez began with The Friend and continued with What Are You Going Through. A solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.Humour, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another's distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez's new novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself.

A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own.In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.

Written by 2018 National Book Award-winning author Nunez, Mitz is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, as refracted through their small, sickly, pampered, affectionate pet marmoset, Mitz.

An unexpectedly life-affirming novel about choosing to die, by National Book Award winner and bestselling author of THE FRIEND

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, the moving and eerily relevant novel that imagines the aftermath of a flu pandemic as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy uncertain of his destiny.In an America devastated by a flu pandemic, orphaned thirteen-year-old C ole finds safety and stability with an evangelical pastor and his wife. Happiness becomes disquiet as he realises the cost at which this peace comes, and the extent to which it challenges everything he knows.Salvation City is a story of love, betrayal, and forgiveness, blending a deeply affecting portrait of one young boy's transformation with a profound meditation on belief, heroism, and the true meaning of salvation.'A tale of an American near-apocalypse that ... reads beautifully, at time joyously, and makes one reconsider the ordering of our world' Gary Shteyngart'Not only timely and thought-provoking but also generous in its understanding of human nature. When the apocalypse comes, I want Nunez in my lifeboat' Vanity Fair'Nunez's writing is gorgeously spare, and she gets the life and the lingo of a teenage boy just right.... A gorgeously strange novel' Boston Globe'A satisfying, provocative and very plausible novel' Abraham Verghese, New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice'A wise and richly humane coming-of-age novel' O Magazine

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: a moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE VIEW''S SUMMER READ 2019 PICKS!"A beautiful book … a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." —Wall Street Journal"A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit." —NPR"Dry, allusive and charming…the comedy here writes itself.” The New York TimesA moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog''s care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.

It is Columbia University, 1968. Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as roommates on the first night. The two are drawn together intensely by their differences; two years later, after a violent fight, they part ways. When, in 1976, Ann is convicted of killing a cop, Georgette comes back to their shared history in search of an explanation.

From the author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award."The masterpiece of the 'I knew Susan' minigenre" - A.O. Scott, The New York TimesA poignant, intimate memoir of one of America's most esteemed and fascinating cultural figures, and a deeply felt tribute. Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, blinding intelligence, and edgy personal style. Sontag introduced Nunez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating. Soon Nunez moved into the apartment that Rieff and Sontag shared. As Sontag told Nunez, "Who says we have to live like everyone else?" Sontag's influence on Nunez, who went on to become a successful novelist, would be profound. Described by Nunez as "a natural mentor" who saw educating others as both a moral obligation and a source of endless pleasure, Sontag inevitably infected those around her with her many cultural and intellectual passions. In this poignant, intimate memoir, Nunez speaks of her gratitude for having had, as an early model, "someone who held such an exalted, unironic view of the writer's vocation." Published more than six years after Sontag's death, Sempre Susan is a startlingly truthful portrait of this outsized personality, who made being an intellectual a glamorous occupation.