Jenny Diski Libri

Alla fine degli anni Novanta, Jenny Diski riflette sulla sua stanza da letto bianca, associandola al candore degli ospedali della sua giovinezza. Per lei, il bianco rappresenta un allontanamento dalla vita e dai ricordi. Questo desiderio di evasione si traduce in un piano: raggiungere l'Antartide, alla ricerca del bianco assoluto per perdersi e dimenticare. Tuttavia, mentre il viaggio si concretizza, il passato si fa presente, rifiutando di essere sepolto. La memoria di Jenny riemerge, portando alla luce figure come la madre, assente da trent'anni, il padre truffatore, la depressione e la madre adottiva, Doris Lessing. Inoltre, sua figlia è determinata a scoprire la nonna materna. Sul bianco tanto agognato si manifestano macchie di colore e arcobaleni inaspettati. L'esplorazione interiore si riflette nei panorami antartici, dove il bianco si fonde con le sfumature di azzurro degli iceberg. Con una scrittura evocativa, intrisa di umorismo e sincerità, il racconto narra un viaggio ai confini di sé e del mondo, alla ricerca di un equilibrio tra memoria e dolore, vita e vuoto.

From the award-winning writer, following her memoirs, Skating to Antarctica, Stranger on a Train, On Trying to Keep Still - a unique book about animal watching, out now in paperback.

From the award-winning, fabulously unique writer - comes a most unusual series of journeys from Lapland to New Zealand to Somerset. Now in paperback. 'A luminous, brilliantly witty account of the trials of seeking stillnes' Joanna Kavenna, Telegraph

The best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "an injection of grade-A intellectual adrenaline" (Vulture), selected by the legendary editor Mary-Kay Wilmers.

Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflections and revelation in a unique combination of travelogue and memoir.

'Nothing Natural centres with illuminating precision on a sado-masochistic relationship. Rachel is in her thirties, a single parent admired by her friends for her self-sufficiency . But when she meets the compelling, sinister Joshua she discovers another side to herself . In a sense which horrifies her, she has found herself . An outstandingly well-written novel' New Statesman An addictive story of a dangerous love affair with a shocking denoument, this is a complex examination of the relations between the sexes at their most combatative and collusive. It is a clever book with much to tell us about the nature of desire and what should or should not be permissable.

A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era.What was Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out, taking drugs, buying clothes, having sex, demonstrating, and spending time in mental hospitals. Now, as Diski herself turns sixty years old, she examines what has been lost in the purple haze of nostalgia and selective memory of that era, what endures, and what has always been the same. From the vantage point of London, she takes stock of the Sexual Revolution, the fashion, the drug culture, and the psychiatric movements and education systems of the day. What she discovers is that the ideas of the sixties often paved the way for their antithesis, and that by confusing liberation and libertarianism, a new kind of radicalism would take over both in the UK and America.Witty, provocative, and gorgeously written, Jenny Diski promises to feed your head with new insights about everything that was, and is , the sixties.

In ihrem sozialkritischen Roman verwebt Jenny Diski die Schicksale von Esther, die um ihre psychisch kranke Tochter Katya bangt, und einem Mädchen aus dem Mittelalter, das wegen ihrer Glaubensfragen als Ketzerin verurteilt wird. Der Roman ermutigt, Dogmen zu hinterfragen.

In "Regenwald" greift die englische Erfolgsautorin ein noch brisanteres Thema: Mo arbeitet als Wissenschaftlerin in Borneo, wo sie den Regenwald erforscht. Doch dieser beinahe obzönen, vor Vitalität strotzenden Natur ist die moderne junge Frau nicht gewachsen