Lily King

Three young anthropologists in the 1930s are caught in a passionate love triangle . . .

NEW YORK TIMESI BESTSELLER31aastane Casey Peabody ei tea, kuidas eluga edasi minna. Hiljaaegu lõppenud armusuhe ja ema ootamatu surm on tema hinge jätnud tuikava tühimiku. Kunagise golfitalendi postkasti saabuvad nüüd peamiselt võlateated - üks ähvardavam kui teine. Casey tuleb ettekandjatööga hädavaevu ots otsaga välja ja üürib kitsukest hallituslõhnalist garaazhituba. Seal ootab teda aga viimane allesjäänud pidepunkt ja trööst: kuue aasta eest alustatud romaan, mille kallal kirjanduslike ambitsioonidega naine unetundide arvel töötab. Ja siis leiab Casey end ühtäkki veel armukolmnurgast, mis ähvardab ta lõplikult tasakaalust välja viia. Lily Kingi "Kirjanikud ja armastajad" on südamlik, intelligentne, humoorikas ja unustamatu lugu armastusest, loovusest, eneseleidmisest ning sellest hirmuäratavast, ent võimalusterohkest hetkest elus, kui üks ajajärk on lõppemas ja teine algamas.2020. aasta parimate hulka on selle raamatu valinud Washington Post, People, Los Angeles Times, Amazon, Guardian, Times (UK), Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, Chicago Public Library, New York Public Library, National Public Radio jne. Autorist:Lily King (snd 1963) kasvas üles USA-s Massachusettsi osariigis. Ta sai inglise kirjanduse bakalaureusekraadi Põhja-Carolina ülikoolist Chapel Hillis ja loova kirjutamise magistrikraadi Syracuse'i ülikoolist. King kolis pärast ülikooli lõpetamist Hispaaniasse, kus ta töötas keskkooli inglise keele õpetajana ja hakkas kirjutama esimest romaani. 1999. aastal, kaheksa aastat hiljem - pärast paljusid kolimisi ja madalapalgalisi töökohti raamatupoodides, restoranides ja koolides - avaldas ta debüütromaani "The Pleasing Hour", mis võitis kirjandusauhindu ja oli New York Timesi märkimisväärsete teoste nimekirjas. Järgmiste romaanidega "The English Teacher" (2005), "Father of the Rain" (2010) ja "Euphoria" (2014) ja lühijuttude kogumikuga "Five Tuesdays in Winter" pälvis King nii lugejate kui ka kirjandushiidude jäägitu tähelepanu ning võitis hulgaliselt auhindu, sh prestiizhse Kirkuse auhinna. Naise loomingut on tõlgitud enam kui 20 keelde." Raske on kujutleda lugejat, kes Caseyle kaasa ei elaks." Library Journal"Kütkestav, võimas, teravmeelne ja elukogemusest tulvil. Liigutav lugu kaotusvalust, leinast ülesaamisest ja noorest naisest, kes leiab endas julguse päriselt elada." Madeline Miller, "Kirke" autor"Kingi laused on nagu kiht kihi haaval kaljurahnuks settinud kivikesed ja uhtliiv - üksteisest selgelt eristuvad, ent moodustavad hävinematu terviku." Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times"King ei jäta lugeja ja intelligentse, eheda, küünilise, vaimuka Casey vahele ühtegi barjääri. See on lähivaatlus enese ja oma hääle leidmisest ning kaotusvaluga toimetulekust." Booklist"Kirjanikud ja armastajad" röövis mu südame juba esimestel lehekülgedel. Olen sellesse raamatusse armunud. Armunud! See sügavikesse sukelduv romaan jääb minuga igaveseks." Elin Hilderbrand, raamatu "Summer of '69" autor"Leidsin end aeglaselt lugemas ja ridu alla joonimas, tahtes võimalikult kauaks selle romaani maailma jääda." Christina Baker Kline, "A Piece of the Worldi" autor"Imekaunis!" Elizabeth Strout, "Olive Kitteridge'i" autor"Külluslik ja elujaatav, humoorikas ja röögatult kaval, emotsionaalselt harukordne ja jõuline." Tessa Hadley, "Late in the Day" autor"Täielik õndsus - selline, mis sünnib vahel ahastusest sellise jõuga, et ei saa teha muud, kui hämmastunult hurraatada." Ron Charles, Washington Post"King on üks neist haruldastest kirjanikest, kes suudab põgusaiks hetkiks kokku põimida kurbuse, lõbususe ja tulise raevu." BookPage"See romaan on justkui meditatsioon püüdlusest elus püsida, armastada, hoolida. See mõjub värskelt ja risti vastupidi [viimase aja kirjanduses] levinud küünilisusele, millest oleme seni pidanud hingetoitu leidma." Boston Globe"Elegantne, vaimukas ... See mõtisklus nooruse kaduvusest on liigutav ja kurbnaljakas." Publishers Weekly"Tegelased on nagu lihast ja luust inimesed. [-] Sa oled justkui sealsamas Casey kõrval, väga heas seltskonnas." Katie Yee, Book Marks"Meie aja parimaid kirest kirjutajaid ... Sellest romaanist kujuneb noortele kitsikuses kirjanikele määrava tähtsusega klassika." Vulture

" A] domestic drama with the adrenalin-fueled beating heart of a thriller."--Elle"Beautifully written and carefully observed . . . King is a wildly talented writer." --Chicago TribuneFifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant at elite Fayer Academy. She has since become a fixture and one of the best English teachers Fayer has ever had. Living on campus, on an island off the New England coast, Vida has cocooned herself and her son, Peter, from the outside world and from an inside secret. For years she has lived largely through the books she teaches, but when she accepts the impulsive marriage proposal of ardent widower Tom Belou, the prescribed life Vida has constructed is swiftly dismantled. Peter, however, welcomes the changes. Excited to move off campus, eager to have siblings at last, Peter anticipates a regular life with a "normal" family. But the Belou children are still grieving, and the memory of their recently dead mother exerts a powerful hold on the house. As Vida begins teaching her signature book, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a nineteenth-century tale of an ostracized woman and social injustice, its themes begin to echo eerily in her own life and Peter sees that the mother he perceived as indomitable is collapsing and it is up to him to help.

"Haunting, incisive . . . King is brilliant." -- ElleAn absorbing, insightful story written in cool, polished prose right to the last conflicted line." --Washington Post"Spellbinding . . . You won't be able to stop reading this book, but when you do finally finish the last delicious page and look up, you will see families in a clearer and more forgiving way." --Vanity FairWhen eleven-year-old Daley Amory's mother leaves her father, Daley is thrust into a chaotic adult world of competition, indulgence, and manipulation. Unable to place her allegiance, she gently toes the thickening line between her parents' incompatible worlds: the increasingly liberal, socially committed realm of her mother, and the conservative, liquor-soaked life of her father. But without her mother there to keep him in line, Daley's father's basest impulses and quick rage are unleashed, and Daley finds herself having to choose her own survival over the father she still deeply loves. As she grows into adulthood, Daley retreats from the New England country-club culture that nourished her father's fears and addictions, and attempts to live outside of his influence. Until he hits rock bottom. Faced with the chance to free her father from sixty years worth of dependency, Daley must decide whether repairing their badly broken relationship is worth the risk of losing not only her professional dreams, but the love of her life, Jonathan, who represents so much of what Daley's father claims to hate, and who has given her so much of what he could never provide. A provocative and masterfully told story of one woman's life-long, primal loyalty to her father, Father of the Rain is a spellbinding journey into the emotional complexities, mercurial contours, and magnetic pull of families.

"Five Tuesdays in Winter moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book." --Ann PatchettBy the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and Euphoria comes a masterful new collection of short storiesLily King, one of the most "brilliant" (New York Times Book Review), "wildly talented" (Chicago Tribune), and treasured authors of contemporary fiction, returns after her recent bestselling novels with Five Tuesdays in Winter, her first book of short fiction. Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, Five Tuesdays in Winter intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. Two college roommates have a devastating middle-aged reunion. A proud old man rages powerlessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. A writer receives a visit from all the men who have tried to suppress her voice. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, this wide-ranging collection of ten selected stories by one of our most accomplished chroniclers of the human heart is an exciting addition to Lily King's oeuvre of acclaimed fiction.

Omtalad amerikansk roman om en ung kvinnas sökande efter sin väg i livet 31-åriga Casey har nyss flyttat hem till Boston, skuldsatt och med krossat hjärta. Som i en bubbla rör hon sig mellan restaurangen där hon jobbar som servitris och trädgårdsskjulet som hon kallar sitt hem. Den enda fasta punkten i hennes liv är romanen som hon skrivit på i sex år. Trots att de flesta av hennes vänner gett upp sina författardrömmar, fortsätter Casey kämpa med att balansera skrivandet och livet. När hon träffar både den unga konstnärssjälen Silas och den äldre författaren Oscar, befinner hon sig plötsligt i ett vägskäl mellan två helt olika relationer, och två helt olika liv. Skriva & älska utforskar både kvinnligt konstnärskap och det skrämmande och spännande språnget mellan slutet på en fas i livet och början på en annan." Efter de första sju raderna är jag fast. Det här är en oemotståndlig bok - rolig, klok, hjärtskärande och romantisk, skriven på ett språk som är en ren njutning. /.../ Insiktsfullt om konstnärskap, kärlek och vägval." - Ingalill Mosander, Aftonbladet"Mycket fin roman om konsten att vara kvinnlig konstnär (författare), och den svåra konsten att välja rätt väg i livet!" - Femina"Inspirerande /.../ en smart relationsroman" - Johanna Lundin, SVT Go'kväll"Jag älskade den här boken från första stycket ... ärligt, fängslande och insiktsfullt om kreativitet och livet" - Curtis Sittenfeld"Rent litterärt är romanen en fest med levande gestaltning när den är som bäst, psykologiskt intressanta karaktärer, spirituella dialoger, spännande miljöer, bra intrig och framåtdriv, samt framförallt en hel del underfundig komik. Betyg 5" - BTJ-häftet 9/2022, Katarina Tavakol"Underbar, smart, innerlig" - Washington PostLily King är en amerikansk författare och lärare i kreativt skrivande. Skriva & älska är hennes femte roman.

'Vivid, moving, immersive' Marian Keyes'Moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart' - Ann Patchett'Masterful, surprising, and satisfying' - Madeline MillerWriters & Lovers established Lily King as one of our most beloved authors of contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever, King collects ten of her finest short stories, opening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike. Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller’s unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl’s loss of innocence at the hands of her employer’s son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter’s hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King’s enduring subject of love. Lily King's literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career.

Award-winning Lily King's first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short storiesWith Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country and established her as one of our most brilliant (New York Times), wildly talented (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever, King collects ten of her finest short stories--half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new--opening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike. Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl's loss of innocence at the hands of her employer's son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King's enduring subject of love. Lily King's literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career.

The New York Times Bestseller'Captivating, potent, incisive, and wise' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe'Extremely funny' - Sunday TimesRecently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing for six years isn't going anywhere, her debt is soaring, and at thirty-one, with all her friends getting married and having kids, she feels too old for things to be this way. Then she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar - older, fascinating, troubled - walks into her life, his two boys in tow. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures. And she's still got to write that book . . . 'Suffused with hopefulness and kindness' - Ann Patchett'Exquisite' - Sunday Telegraph'Funny and immensely clever' - Tessa Hadley 'Beautiful . . . Reading the book feels like waiting for clouds to break - a kind of gorgeous agony' - Guardian'I loved this book' - Curtis Sittenfeld

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. Blindsided by her mother's sudden death and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she has been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink. Writers & Lovers follows Casey―a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist―in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King's trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.

V 1933 godu molodoj anglichanin Endrju Benkson vedet odinokuju zhizn na reke Sepik v odnom iz plemen Novoj Gvinei, pytajas opisat i ponjat osnovy zhizni ljudej, tak ne pokhozhikh na ego sobstvennykh soplemennikov iz Zapadnogo mira. On delaet pervye shagi v antropologii, schitaja sebja neudachnikom, kotoromu vrjad li udastsja vnesti sereznyj vklad v novuju nauku. Odnazhdy on vstrechaet paru svoikh kolleg, Nell i Fena, semejnuju paru, oni kochujut iz odnogo dikogo plemeni v plemja, sobiraja informatsiju. V otlichie ot Benksona, oni dobilis uzhe nemalogo. Fen umen, energichen i polon avantjurnykh idej. Ego zhena Nell - nastojaschaja zvezda antropologii, avtor nashumevshego nauchnogo bestsellera. Neskolko mesjatsev Benkson, Nell i Fen rabotaju vmeste, ikh nakryvaet nastojaschij issledovatelskij ugar, kotoryj odnazhdy smenitsja ugarom ljubovnym, i oni okazhutsja svjazannymi strannymi otnoshenijami, v kotorykh peremeshalis ljubov, revnost, konkurentsija, chestoljubie, zavist i avantjurizm. Edinstvennye predstaviteli zapadnoj tsivilizatsii v dushnykh dzhungljakh, oni pytajutsja postich neponjatnuju, tainstvennuju kulturu, ne v silakh ponjat samikh sebja. V osnovu knigi legla istorija znamenitogo antropologa Margaret Mid, no v romane Lili King realnye fakty tesno spleteny s vymyslom. Eto i potret udivitelnoj zhenschiny, i tonkij, chut ironichnyj roman o konkurentsii, o zhelanii, o ljubovnom treugolnike v ekstremalnykh uslovijakh. Dramatichnaja, intellektualnaja i erotichnaja istorija. Lili King s legkostju igraet zhanrami: ot nepoddelnoj dramy - k komedii, ot vdumchivykh razmyshlenij o chuzhikh kulturakh i sposobakh ikh poznanija - k romantike, peretekajuschej v erotiku. "Ejforija" - dan uvazhenija bespokojnomu umu Velikogo uchenogo Margaret Mid, neobychnyj portret antropologii, no eto takzhe tugaja, ostroumnaja, ochen umnaja istorija ob egoizme i zhelanijakh, razvorachivajuschajasja na ekzoticheskom i opasnom fone. Etot roman ne tolko intellektualen, no i erotichen. Lili King sotvorila moschnuju dramu, vyrastajuschuju iz stremlenija cheloveka ponjat. Ee khitrospletenija moralnykh dilemm porazhajut. New York Times Book Review Atmosfernyj i chuvstvennyj roman s potrjasajuschimi kharakterami. NPR.com "Ejforija" odnovremenno romantichna, ekzotichna, informativna i interesna. Reader's Digest Roman idej, no i roman emotsij. Zavist, gordynja, otchajanie i, prezhde vsego, zhelanie - vse peremeshalos na stranitsakh etoj knigi. Kathryn Schulz Zakhvatyvajusche. Esche Konrad osnoval zhanr o zlodejanijakh zapadnogo cheloveka, i v pronitsatelnoj, romantichnoj knigi Lili King eta tema nakhodit novuju rezonansnuju parallel: v krasote i zhestokosti drugikh my obnaruzhivaem nashe stremlenie obladat vsem etim. Vogue Lili King vyrosla v shtate Massachusets, poluchila stepen bakalavra po anglijskoj literature Universiteta Severnoj Karoliny i stepen magistra po tvorcheskomu pismu v Sirakuzskom Universitete. Ona prepodavala anglijskij jazyk i tvorcheskoe pismo v neskolkikh universitetakh i v Amerike i drugikh stranakh. Pervyj roman Lili King - The Pleasing Hour (1999) - poluchil premiju Barnes and Noble Discover i byl vybran gazetoj New York Times v chisle luchshikh knig goda, a takzhe poluchil premiju PEN/Hemingway. Vtoroj roman - The English Teacher - popal v "Desjatku luchshikh knig goda" po versii zhurnala Publishers, stal luchshej knigoj goda po versii Chicago Tribune i poluchil premiju Maine Fiction Award. No nastojaschij triumf - eto poslednij roman Lili King, "Ejforija", kotoryj sobral tselyj buket prestizhnykh premij. Kniga perevedeny na mnogie jazyki i sejchas idet rabota nad ekranizatsiej. Premija 2014 Kirkus Prize Premija 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award Luchshaja kniga po vyboru: New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2014; TIME Top 10 Fiction Books of 2014; New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2014; NPR Best Books of 2014; Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2014; Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014; Kirkus Best of 2014; Amazon 100 Best of 2014 #16; Publishers Weekly Best Fiction Books of 2014; Our Man in Boston's Best of 2014; Oprah.com 15 Must Reads of 2014; Buzzfeed 32 Most Beautiful Book Covers of 2014; A Vogue Top 10 Book of 2014; A New York magazine Best Book of the Year; Seattle Times Top Books of 2014; San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Books of 2014. Perevodchik: Aleksandrova M. A.

A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2014 Kirkus Prize Winner of the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Book of the Year for: New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Vogue, New York Magazine, Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Our Man in Boston, Oprah.com, SalonEuphoria is Lily King's nationally bestselling breakout novel of three young, gifted anthropologists of the '30's caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. Inspired by events in the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is "dazzling ... suspenseful ... brilliant...an exhilarating novel."--Boston Globe