Rita Bullwinkel

Luchshaja kniga 2024 goda po versii The New York Times Book Review, Time, Elle, The Guardian "Udar v golovu" - tselostnoe proizvedenie, chto redko byvaet s debjutnymi romanami: energichnyj, chetkij i pri etom v meru besporjadochnyj. A na ringe ostaetsja mesto i dlja chitatelja. - The Guardian U kazhdoj iz vosmi devochek-podrostkov - svoja prichina otpravitsja v Reno, shtat Nevada, na sorevnovanija po boksu "Kubok docherej Ameriki". Odna pytaetsja zabyt o tragedii, sluchivshejsja v bassejne, vtoraja stremitsja sootvetstvovat ozhidanijam semi, kotoraja uchit, chto glavnoe - eto pobeda. Derzhat vse pod kontrolem ili otpustit? Nabirat oboroty ili ostanovitsja? I tak li neobkhodimo byt v chem-to bezogovorochno luchshej? Rita Bullvinkel rasskazyvaet ne tolko o bojakh na ringe, no i o proshlom, kotoroe privelo devushek sjuda, i o buduschem, kotoroe ikh ozhidaet. Perevod s anglijskogo: Anna Gajdenko

På ett dammigt gym i Reno samlas åtta tonårstjejer för den nationella finalen i boxningsturneringen Daughters of Americas Cup. Match för match, slag för slag, får vi följa tjejerna. Vad som driver dem, var de kommer ifrån och vad som väntar dem i framtiden, efter det att de blivit utslagna ur turneringen eller tagit sig vidare till nästa runda. Som läsare får vi befinna oss inne i de huvuden de tonåriga boxningstjejerna försöker skydda, för ta del av berättelser om klass, familjedynamik, USA, vuxenblivande, rivalitet och vänskap. En oktett människoöden så fängslande att boken nominerades till Bookerpriset och hamnade på Barack Obamas lista över årets favortiläsning.

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024 Named a Best Book of 2024 by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Elle, Vulture, Lit Hub, and The Guardian "Make room, American fiction, for a meaningful new voice." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review An electrifying debut novel from an "unusually gifted writer" (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of physical competition An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country. Through a series of face-offs that are raw, ecstatic, and punctuated by flashes of humor and tenderness, prizewinning writer Rita Bullwinkel animates the competitors' pasts and futures as they summon the emotion, imagination, and force of will required to win. Frenetic, surprising, and strikingly original, Headshot is a portrait of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness, and sheer physical pleasure that motivate young women to fight--even, and perhaps especially, when no one else is watching.

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024 Named a Best Book of 2024 by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Elle, Vulture, Lit Hub, and The Guardian "Make room, American fiction, for a meaningful new voice." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review An electrifying debut novel from an "unusually gifted writer" (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of physical competition An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country. Through a series of face-offs that are raw, ecstatic, and punctuated by flashes of humor and tenderness, prizewinning writer Rita Bullwinkel animates the competitors' pasts and futures as they summon the emotion, imagination, and force of will required to win. Frenetic, surprising, and strikingly original, Headshot is a portrait of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness, and sheer physical pleasure that motivate young women to fight--even, and perhaps especially, when no one else is watching.

Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grotesque and tender stories, characters question the bodies they've been given and what their bodies require to be sustained.