Jonathan Safran Foer

From the bestselling author of Eating Animals and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - a brilliant, fresh take on climate change and what we can do about it 'Your burger isn't something you bought and paid for. It is a symbol of a debt that, one day, must be repaid.'(Chelsea Harvey) Climate change is the single biggest threat to human survival - and we are dealing with it all wrong. We take shorter showers to save water - because we don't know that producing one pound of meat requires the equivalent of six months' showers in water waste. We buy hybrid cars - because we don't know that just one day a week without meat consumption is equivalent to taking every car in America off the road. The link between meat-eating and the climate crisis isn't talked about - because our leaders think we're not ready to make small personal sacrifices to save our way of life. But these sacrifices need to be made - and they're so much easier than you think. You don't have to go cold turkey. Cutting out meat for just part of the day is enough to change the world. With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Jonathan Safran Foer presents this essential debate as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life, and offering us all a much-needed way out.

In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn't believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response? The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves--with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat--and don't eat--for breakfast.

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Den amerikanske forfatter Jonathan Safran Foer kaster sig med sin nye bog over et af tidens mest presserende emner: klimaforandringer. Vi hører hele tiden, at tiden er ved at løbe ud, at klimakrisen kan føre til vores udryddelse, men alligevel – eller måske netop derfor – er det svært at stille noget op for det enkelte menneske. Eller er det? Ifølge Safran Foer kan vi indlede vores kamp mod klimaforandringerne ved hjælp af noget så simpelt som kniv og gaffel. Og man behøver ikke at tage en kold tyrker fra al kød. Det hele begynder nemlig med, hvad vi spiser – og ikke spiser – til morgenmad.

How Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich traditions of Judaism into daily life. What do the complicated laws of kosher food mean to Jews? How does food in Jewish bellies shape the hearts and minds of Jews? What does the Jewish relationship with food teach us about Christianity, Islam, and religion itself? Can food shape the future of Judaism? Feasting and Fasting explores questions like these to offer an expansive look at how Judaism and food have been intertwined, both historically and today. It also grapples with the charged ethical debates about how food choices reflect competing Jewish values about community, animals, the natural world and the very meaning of being human. Encompassing historical, ethnographic, and theoretical viewpoints, and including contributions dedicated to the religious dimensions of foods including garlic, Crisco, peanut oil, and wine, the volume advances the state of both Jewish studies and religious studies scholarship on food. Bookended with a foreword by the Jewish historian Hasia Diner and an epilogue by the novelist and food activist Jonathan Safran Foer, Feasting and Fasting provides a resource for anyone who hungers to understand how food and religion intersect.

How Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich traditions of Judaism into daily life. What do the complicated laws of kosher food mean to Jews? How does food in Jewish bellies shape the hearts and minds of Jews? What does the Jewish relationship with food teach us about Christianity, Islam, and religion itself? Can food shape the future of Judaism? Feasting and Fasting explores questions like these to offer an expansive look at how Judaism and food have been intertwined, both historically and today. It also grapples with the charged ethical debates about how food choices reflect competing Jewish values about community, animals, the natural world and the very meaning of being human. Encompassing historical, ethnographic, and theoretical viewpoints, and including contributions dedicated to the religious dimensions of foods including garlic, Crisco, peanut oil, and wine, the volume advances the state of both Jewish studies and religious studies scholarship on food. Bookended with a foreword by the Jewish historian Hasia Diner and an epilogue by the novelist and food activist Jonathan Safran Foer, Feasting and Fasting provides a resource for anyone who hungers to understand how food and religion intersect.

Most books about the environmental crisis are densely academic, depressingly doom-laden and crammed with impersonal statistics. We are the Weather is different - accessible, immediate and with a single clear solution that individual readers can put into practice straight away. A significant proportion of global carbon emissions come from farming meat. Giving up meat is incredibly hard and nobody is perfect - but just cutting back is much easier and still has a huge positive effect on the environment. Just changing our dinners - cutting out meat for one meal per day - is enough to change the world. With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Foer frames this essential debate as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life.

Alt er på nippet til å rase sammen for Jacob og Julia Bloch. Jacobs bestefar nekter å flytte på aldershjem, og eldstesønnen står i fare for å bli utvist fra skolen. En erotisk sms-utveksling setter ekteskapet ytterligere på prøve, og midt i det hele kommer familien fra Tel Aviv på besøk. Familien Bloch er en moderne amerikansk familie som forsøker å stå sammen i tykt og tynt, men det er ikke alltid så enkelt. Og så inntreffer den virkelige katastrofen. Her er jeg er en bredt anlagt familiehistorie som utspiller seg over fire intense uker i Washington DC. Romanen berører grunnleggende spørsmål om rollene vi prøver å fylle, om hvordan vi former vår egen identitet, og om det smertelige i å ta innover seg avstanden mellom det livet man ønsker å leve og det livet man faktisk lever. Her er jeg er Safran Foers skarpeste og mest personlige roman, og med den befester han for alvor sin posisjon som en av de viktigste amerikanske forfatterne i vår tid.«Høytravende og spektakulær. En fortelling om ekteskapelig, familiær og sosialt sammenbrudd og Verdens Undergang.» The Times«Ambisiøs og morsom. Foers beste og syrligste roman.» The New York Times«Foer briljerer i ekteskapskrigens hverdagstortur. Beundringsverdig og tankevekkende.» Guardian«Forbløffende. Så trist og så morsom og så skeiv.» Scotland on Sunday“Foer skriver strålende om krigssonen mellom foreldre og tenåringer.” Jewish Chronicle

Jonathan Safran Foers nya efterlängtade roman är en brett anlagd familjehistoria som utspelar sig under tre tumultartade veckor i Washington. Berättelsen ställer frågor som: Hur hanterar vi våra roller som far, make, son, hustru och mor? Barn och vuxen? Jude och amerikan? Hur kan vi göra anspråk på vår egen identitet när vi alltid är skyldiga andra så mycket? Med sin nya roman visar Jonathan Safran Foer återigen prov på samma högenergiska, dråpliga och känslostarka prosa som gjorde honom till omtalad författare redan som tjugofemåring. Här är jag, som är hans hittills mest personliga verk, har hyllats av kritiker världen över.

A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I AmHow do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others'? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel in eleven years--a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy. Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D. C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the very meaning of home--and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foer's most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer's stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a novelist who has fully come into his own as one of our most important writers.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a rich and moving novel about modern family lives and the ties that bind'Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever read' The Times'A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns of individual lives' Evening Standard 'Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, it's impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family' Time'Astonishing. So sad and so funny and so wry' Scotland on Sunday Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . . By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home. By the family reunion, that everyone is dreading. By their son's heroic attempts to get expelled. And by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage. A typical modern American family, the Blochs cling together even as they are torn apart. Which is when catastrophe decides to strike . . . Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human with inventiveness, playfulness and compassion, Here I Am is a great American family novel for our times, an unmissable read for fans of Jonathan Franzen and Michael Chabon, a masterpiece about how we live now.

Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested ... By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home. By the family reunion, that everyone is dreading. By their son's heroic attempts to get expelled. And by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage. A typical modern American family, the Blochs cling together even as they are torn apart. Which is when catastrophe decides to strike ... Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human with inventiveness, playfulness and compassion, Here I Am is a great American family novel for our times, a masterpiece about how we live now.

For Bloch-familien burde det være en glædelig begivenhed: Snart skal de alle samles for at fejre den ældste søns bar mitzvah. Der er bare det, at han netop har gjort noget, der er så unævnelig slemt, at det hele måske må aflyses … For Jacob, manuskriptforfatter og far, er det endnu et bevis på hans egen inkompetence som forælder. For moren Julia – en arkitekt der snobber nedad som indretningsdesigner – er det endnu en påmindelse om de ofre, der hører til moderskabet. For de yngre brødre Max og Benji er det jo bare klart, at alle voksne er idioter. Og for Sam, den ældste søn, er det nu tid til at spørge, om han er klar til at blive til en mand. Hvordan lever vi op til vores modstridende forpligtelser som far, husbond og søn; kone og mor; barn og voksen? Jøde og amerikaner? Hvordan gør vi krav på vores egen identitet, når vores liv er så tæt forbundne med andres? Det er de spørgsmål, der udgør kernen i Jonathan Safran Foers første roman i elleve år – en ekstraordinært vidtfavnende bog præget af en hjerteskærende intimitet. Hen over fire tumultariske uger i vores tids Washington fortæller Her er jeg historien om en kriseramt familie i opløsning. Mens Jacob og Julia Bloch og deres tre sønner tvinges til at konfrontere afstanden mellem de liv, de tror, de ønsker, og de liv, de lever, udløser et katastrofalt jordskælv i Mellemøsten en hurtigt eskalerende konflikt. Det er selve betydningen af det at have et hjem, der er på spil – og det fundamentale spørgsmål om, hvor levende et menneske kan tåle at være. Jonathan Safran Foer, f. 1977, er en amerikansk-jødisk forfatter. Hans debutroman, Alt er oplyst (2002), gjorde ham med ét verdensberømt, og opfølgeren Ekstremt højt og utrolig tæt på (2005), cementerede hans position som en af hans generations betydeligste forfattere. Desuden er på dansk udkommet non-fictionbogen At spise dyr (2009).