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 forfatteren Den 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”.

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.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Friend comes a life-affirming novel about choosing to die.A woman visits a friend who is dying of cancer. Brilliant and stubborn, her friend makes a momentous request. She wishes to end her life on her own terms - and she wantsthe narrator's help. Stricken, she agrees. 'I promise,' says the friend, 'to make it as much fun as possible.'What follows is an extraordinary tale of a friendship given the greatest test: to witness, unflinching, its end. It is also a portrait of the way we live now, in a world endlessly troubled by crises, and the dramatically changing nature of human relationships in our time.[We hope to get quotes for this book but in the meantime please use these quotes.]Praise for The Friend'A true delight: I genuinely fear I won't read a better novel this year'Financial Times'A beautiful book . . . crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art and love' Wall Street Journal'Delicious . . . An intensely pleasurable read because it is so accessible, capacious and clever'Sunday Times

"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"--

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”.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, VOGUE AND KIRKUS REVIEWSThe New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection“I am committed, until one of us dies, to Nunez’s novels. I find them ideal. They are short, wise, provocative, funny — good and strong company.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“With the intimacy and humor of a great conversation, this novel makes you feel smarter and more alive.” —People Magazine“An ode to our basic need to connect with other beings, be they human or animal, even in a global crisis that told us to stay apart.” —NPR 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.

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.

En kvinde fortæller: Hun besøger en veninde der er døende med terminal kræft, og modtager et overraskende ønske der skal få afgørende betydning. Veninden har nemlig sat sig for at afslutte livet på sine egne betingelser – og hun vil have fortælleren til at hjælpe sig. Opfordringen accepteres med usikkerhed. ’Jeg lover’, siger veninden, ’at arrangere det hele så sjovt som muligt’. 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).

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 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 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.