Besondere Autor*innen, besondere Geschichten: btb SELECTION – Ausgezeichnet. Ungewöhnlich. Erstklassig. Marvel, eine Kleinstadt in Indiana, 1930. Es ist ein heißer Tag im Hochsommer, als sich die Nachricht wie ein Lauffeuer verbreitet: drei schwarze junge Männer sollen gelyncht werden. Im ganzen County machen sich die Bewohner auf, dem Spektakel beizuwohnen. Auch Ottie Lee Henshaw, eine verblühende Kleinstadtschönheit, ist unterwegs mit ihrem schmierigen Boss und ihrem undurchsichtigen Ehemann, um ein bisschen Spaß zu haben. Am anderen Ende der Straße bricht eine junge Afroamerikanerin auf. Calla Destry will der Spirale von Gewalt und Unterdrückung entkommen und ist entschlossen, den Mann zu treffen, der ihr ein neues Leben versprochen hat. Wildgewordene Demagogen, marodierende Bürgerwehren, scharfe Hunde und der Ku-Klux-Klan sind unterwegs – die Straße ist kein guter Ort für beide Frauen. Denn jede von ihnen hat ein Geheimnis, dass sie hinter sich lassen will, und die aufgeheizte Stimmung ist für sie beide brandgefährlich.
Laird Hunt Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Laird Hunt è uno scrittore americano la cui opera esplora l'intersezione tra memoria, luogo e identità. Le sue narrazioni si addentrano spesso nelle complessità dello sradicamento e dell'appartenenza, attingendo a un ricco arazzo di esperienze internazionali che informano la sua prospettiva unica. La prosa di Hunt è caratterizzata dalla sua qualità lirica e dalla sua acuta osservazione della condizione umana, invitando i lettori a contemplare i profondi legami tra il nostro sé passato e presente.
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction) "It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought, what she knew." As a girl, Zorrie Underwood's modest and hardscrabble home county was the only constant in her young life. After losing both her parents, Zorrie moved in with her aunt, whose own death orphaned Zorrie all over again, casting her off into the perilous realities and sublime landscapes of rural, Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, Zorrie survived on odd jobs, sleeping in barns and under the stars, before finding a position at a radium processing plant. At the end of each day, the girls at her factory glowed from the radioactive material. But when Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finally finds the love and community that have eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg. And yet, even as she tries to build a new life, Zorrie discovers that her trials have only begun. Spanning an entire lifetime, a life convulsed and transformed by the events of the 20th century, Laird Hunt's extraordinary novel offers a profound and intimate portrait of the dreams that propel one tenacious woman onward and the losses that she cannot outrun. Set against a harsh, gorgeous, quintessentially American landscape, this is a deeply empathetic and poetic novel that belongs on a shelf with the classics of Willa Cather, Marilynne Robinson, and Elizabeth Strout.
In the House in the Dark of the Woods
- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
In this dark fairy tale, a young woman sets off to pick berries in the depths of the forest, but can't find her way home again. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of the north. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another woman who offers her help. Then everything changes.
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- 235pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
"Ik was sterk en hij niet, dus was ik die ten oorlog ging om de Republiek te verdedigen. Ik stapte over de grens, uit Indiana en Ohio in. Er was een vuurzee op komst en ik wilde mijn vonkje daaraan bijdragen.' Dit is Galante Ash: een held, volkslegende en meesterlijk krijgsman. Ash is een geboren leider en een meedogenloze en onverschrokken soldaat. Maar Ash heeft een geheim. Galante Ash is een vrouw. Dit is haar verhaal."