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Äitini omaelämäkerta

Äitini omaelämäkerta

Jamaica Kincaid

Kustantamo SS
2025
sidottu

Halvin toimitettuna 26,90 €

Xuela Claudette Richardson menettää karibialaisen äitinsä syntymässään ja joutuu siitä lähtien selviämään omin neuvoin. Xuela pelkää ja vieroksuu arvaamatonta afrikkalais-skottilaista isäänsä, joka ei osaa huolehtia vauvasta ja jättää tämän pitkäksi aikaa pyykkärinaisen hoiviin. Aikuisena Xuela solmii avioliiton englantilaisen lääkärin kanssa mutta rakastuu Rolandiin, ahtaajaan, joka varastaa hänelle irlantilaista pellavaa valtamerilaivoilta. Xuelan maailma on fyysinen, ylikypsiltä hedelmiltä, rikiltä ja sateen kastelemalta maalta tuoksuva, surumielinen ja yksinäinen maailma, jonka ytimessä on äidittömyys. Kincaidin edellisissä romaaneissa Annie John ja Lucy esiintyneen kaltainen äitihahmo nähtiin aiemmin tyttären alisteisesta ja kapinoivasta näkökulmasta. Nyt äiti kertoo oman totuutensa - mutta kuka kertoja on? Ravisuttavan raaka ja vaikuttava, lyyrisen kauniisti ja aistivoimaisesti kerrottu kasvutarina sijoittuu karibialaiselle Dominican saarelle.
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Lucy

Lucy

Jamaica Kincaid

Picador USA
2025
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Halvin toimitettuna 19,90 €

A portrait of an indelible young woman, Kincaid's second novel is "vivid, true and necessary" (Los Angeles Times). Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is. At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with the way the family lives, she is also unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed of adamantine clear-sightedness and ferocious integrity--a captivating heroine for our time.
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Lucy

Lucy

Jamaica Kincaid

FSG Adult
2002
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The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in paperback Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is. At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with Lewis's and Mariah's lives, she is also unravelling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and ferocious integrity--a captivating heroine for our time.
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Lucy

Lucy

Jamaica Kincaid

PAN MACMILLAN
2022
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Halvin toimitettuna 16,70 €

A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamiliar country.
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Arvsled och avgöranden - fyra noveller

Arvsled och avgöranden - fyra noveller

Jamaica Kincaid; Annika Norlin; Karin Smirnoff; Märta Tikkanen

Novellix
2021
muu
I form av små utsnitt ur hela, långa och komplexa liv berättar novellerna i denna ask historier om något mycket större: Hur det är att vara ett litet barn och avguda sin mor, hur det är att vara förälder med ett omedelbart behov av att beskydda, hur det är att vara i en relation och behöva välja mellan sin egen rädsla och sin partners begär, och hur det är att vara i ett äktenskap som dränker och förtär ens existens, bit för bit. Tills den dag man får nog. I Arvsled och avgöranden ger fyra älskade och kritikerrosade författare exempel på hur den man har allra närmast ibland kan vara den man står allra längst ifrån, och om hur det är att söka kraft hos andra - men finna den hos sig själv. Asken innehåller fyra böcker: Märta Tikkanen - Det finns en skräck på bottnenAnnika Norlin - Arvsled Jamaica Kincaid - Biografi över en klänning Karin Smirnoff - Missing People
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A Small Place

A Small Place

Jamaica Kincaid

Picador USA
2025
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A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua, by the author of Annie John. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, Antigua, and makes palpable the impact of European colonialism and tourism. This book is a missive to the traveler, whether American or European, who wants to escape the banality and corruption of some large place. Kincaid, powerful and resolute, reminds us that the Antiguan people, formerly British subjects, are unable to escape the same drawbacks of their own tiny realm--that behind the benevolent Caribbean scenery are human lives, always complex and often fraught with injustice.
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See Now Then

See Now Then

Jamaica Kincaid

St Martin's Press
2024
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Halvin toimitettuna 22,80 €

This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters - a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England - as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, “the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then.” Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. See Now Then is Kincaid’s attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end. Over the past forty years of her career, Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface of things. In See Now Then, she envelops the reader in a world that is both familiar and startling - creating her most emotionally and thematically daring work yet.
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Annie John

Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid

Picador USA
2024
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Halvin toimitettuna 19,90 €

The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form. Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met with nothing short of amazement. The New York Times hailed her "prophetic power" and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said, "No one else seems to be writing quite this way." With Annie John, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open the theme that lies at the heart of her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother's love. In this book, written in Kincaid's lucid, elemental style, Annie John's ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.
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See Now Then

See Now Then

Jamaica Kincaid

PAN MACMILLAN
2024
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Halvin toimitettuna 17,50 €

‘If revenge is a dish best served cold, See Now Then is a baked alaska in reverse, chilling on the outside, screaming hot at the center’ - New York TimesMr and Mrs Sweet live in a house in the small town of Bennington, New England. While Mr Sweet grew up in the dining rooms of the Plaza Hotel and in the audience of the city ballet, Mrs Sweet arrived in the United States on a banana boat, sailing from Dominica. A blazing, unflinching portrait of a couple trying to make sense of the relationship they’ve settled for, See Now Then is the first novel in a decade from Jamaica Kincaid, one of today’s most celebrated writers. Now in the Picador Collection.
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My Brother

My Brother

Jamaica Kincaid

PAN MACMILLAN
2024
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Halvin toimitettuna 17,50 €

‘Controlled and fearless perfection’ - The Washington PostJamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon died of Aids on 19 January 1996 at the age of 33. This poetic and shockingly candid recounting of her brother’s life and death is also the story of her family in Antigua - centred round her destructive mother - and a portrait of an illness misunderstood. From one of today’s most iconic writers, My Brother is a remarkable record of a life that ended too early. It speaks to the difficult truths at the heart of all families. Now in the Picador Collection.
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Talk Stories

Talk Stories

Jamaica Kincaid

PAN MACMILLAN
2024
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‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago TribuneTalk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid’s original writing for the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column from 1974 to 1983. In these early pieces Kincaid discovers New York’s many hidden secrets as she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music, and how to call a cauliflower a crudité.
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The Best American Travel Writing 2005

The Best American Travel Writing 2005

Jason Wilson; Jamaica Kincaid

Mariner Books
2005
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The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind. The Best American Travel Writing 2005 includes William Least-Heat Moon - Ian Frazier - John McPhee - William T. Vollmann - Simon Winchester - Tom Bissell - Madison Smartt Bell - Timothy Bascom - Pam Houston - and others Jamaica Kincaid, guest editor, is the author of numerous award-winning works, including the memoirs My Brother and The Autobiography of My Mother and the novel Annie John. Her travelogue Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas appeared in 2005. She lives in Vermont with her two children and a garden, in which she travels a great deal.
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Putting Myself Together

Putting Myself Together

Jamaica Kincaid

PAN MACMILLAN
2026
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A landmark collection of work by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid. ‘An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer’ Susan Sontag ‘What a writer’ Ali Smith ‘Both a daughter of Brontë and Woolf and her own inimitable self’ The Wall Street Journal ‘If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you’ Jackie Kay That’s the way I write. It’s never going to stop. And the more it makes people annoyed the more I will do it. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua in 1949. She has always been herself. Her work began to be published after she moved to New York at the age of nineteen, and by 1974 she was contributing to the New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column, where she later became a staff writer. This is a blazing collection that spans more than five decades of Jamaica Kincaid’s writing. From Muhammad Ali, Diana Ross, gardening and motherhood to colonialism and the act of writing, Putting Myself Together shows how this witty and fearless writer became one of the most remarkable and influential voices of a generation.
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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-

Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-

Jamaica Kincaid

Picador USA
2026
nidottu
My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write. This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and Ms., proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has been a consummate stylist, and she has always been herself. From "Jamaica Kincaid's New York," which narrates her move to the city from Antigua at the age of sixteen and a half, to the classic "Biography of a Dress," her cultural criticism, and her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, imparting her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to whatever crosses her path. Putting Myself Together is a brilliant, trenchant, hilarious self-portrait of the artist and a testament to how this inimitable, self-created mind and spirit, endowed with wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our greatest, most original writers.
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Annie John

Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid

Bokförlaget Tranan
2026
Liepeellinen sidos
LÄS ANNIE JOHN OCH LUCY I "SVERIGES STÖRSTA BOKCIRKEL" I SEPTEMBER. ETT SAMARBETE MELLAN LUNDSTRÖMS BOKRADIO OCH BOKMÄSSAN. Annie John växer upp på den karibiska ön Antigua. Hennes värld kretsar kring den högt älskade modern, och som tioåring finns det inget hon tycker mer om än att se på när modern plockar fram sin gamla koffert fylld med minnen från ett annat liv. Men Annie är inte tio för evigt. Hon förändras, hennes kropp förändras -- och med tiden förändras också relationen till modern. Samtidigt börjar något annat gro i Annie: en motvilja mot den världsbild skolan lär ut, där hennes erfarenhet inte tycks rymmas. Jamaica Kincaids moderna klassiker Annie John är en oförglömlig roman om det livsomvälvande uppbrottet från barndomen och om den komplexa mor- och dotterrelation som präglar hela hennes författarskap. Jamaica Kincaid föddes 1949 som Elaine Potter Richardson och växte upp med sin mor på den karibiska ön Antigua, som då var en brittisk koloni. Som sextonåring flyttade hon till New York för att jobba som au pair, och tio år senare var hon fast anställd skribent på The New Yorker. Namnet Jamaica Kincaid tog hon eftersom hon ville dölja för sin mor att hon skrev. Hon debuterade som författare med novellsamlingen På flodens botten 1983. Idag bor hon i Vermont i USA. Annie John gavs ut 1985 och var hennes första roman. "Vilken bok! Jamaica Kincaids roman är ypperligt välskriven, hon fogar ord till ord på ett sätt som är få förunnat." Therese Eriksson, Upsala Nya Tidning "En bok som övertygar från första ordet till sista." Johan Dahlbäck, Göteborgs-Posten
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Broren min

Broren min

Jamaica Kincaid

Cappelen Damm AS
2026
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EEn rystende vakker fortelling om familie, avstand og tilhørighet. Jamaica Kincaids bror Devon døde av AIDS den 19. januar 1996, i en alder av trettitre år. Kincaids poetiske og ofte sjokkerende ærlige gjengivelse av brorens liv og død, er også en historie om hennes familie på øya Antigua. En famille der den ruvende og til tider truende skikkelsen av forfatterens mor, står i sentrum. Broren min er en uforskjønnet skildring av et liv som endte for tidlig, og den forteller mye om de vanskelige sannhetene som finnes i hjertet av alle familier. «Til syvende og sist er det dette memoaren handler om: kløften mellom den personen vi kunne ha vært, og den vi på en eller annen måte, ofte uforklarlig, har blitt. Den handler om å dra, om å etterlate mennesker, om å være en fremmed i sitt eget hjem, for sin egen familie. (…) Denne rike, komplekse boken er memoarene til en flyktning som aldri har vært i stand til å glemme hvor hun kom fra.» Anna Quindlen, New York Times Book Review «Enkelt sagt: forfattere ønsker seg perfekte lesere, men lesere ønsker seg enda mer perfekte forfattere – og finner dem sjelden. Med denne memoaren, er Jamaica Kincaid så nær perfekt som det er mulig å komme.» Carolyn See, The Washington Post
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Putting Myself Together

Putting Myself Together

Jamaica Kincaid

PAN MACMILLAN
2025
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Halvin toimitettuna 30,40 €

A landmark collection of essays by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid.‘An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer’ - Susan Sontag‘What a writer' - Ali Smith‘Both a daughter of Brontë and Woolf and her own inimitable self’ The Wall Street Journal'If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you’ - Jackie KayThat’s the way I write. It’s never going to stop. And the more it makes people annoyed the more I will do it. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua in 1949. She has always been herself. Her work began to be published after she moved to New York at the age of nineteen, and by 1974 she was contributing to The New Yorker’s ‘Talk of the Town’ column, where she later became a staff writer. This is is a blazing collection that spans more than five decades of Jamaica Kincaid’s writing. From Muhammad Ali, Diana Ross, gardening and motherhood, to colonialism and the act of writing, Putting Myself Together shows how this witty and fearless writer became one of the most remarkable and influential voices of a generation.
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