Sandra Newman

Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women

Vackert och tankeväckande om frihetens prisDet är en vanlig augustikväll och Jane är ute och campar med sin make och femårige son. När hon vaknar på morgonen är hon ensam i tältet. Något mycket märkligt har hänt, alla med en Y-kromosom har försvunnit spårlöst från jordens yta. Samtidigt som kvinnor världen över brottas med sorg och saknad, måste de nu gå samman för att försöka förhindra att samhället kollapsar. Men mystiska videoklipp börjar snart spridas på nätet, med oroväckande ledtrådar om vad som egentligen har hänt. Kanske finns det ett sätt att få alla män att komma tillbaka - men till vilket pris? Männen är en vacker, förkrossande och djupt rörande roman om feministiska utopier och omöjliga uppoffringar." Det är för konstigt och samtidigt kittlar den så mycket! /.../ Det är inte så likt annat man läser så jag tänker: Kul, testa!" Titti Schultz, Svt Go'kväll"Romanen väcker intressanta frågor: Vad är vi villiga att offra för att rädda världen? Och vice versa: vilket pris är vi beredda att betala för att ännu en tid få behålla det vi känner till, det vi är vana vid och de vi älskar?" Dagens Nyheter"Ett bländande exempel på tankeväckande skönlitteratur" - Observer Sandra Newman är en amerikansk författare bosatt i New York. Hennes fjärde roman En annan himmel utkom på svenska 2019.

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'What a wonderful, strange, terrifying, brilliant novel this is' Kamila Shamsie AS THE WORLD BURNS, ONLY A DREAMER CAN SAVE IT... New York, 2000. The United Nations has just planted its flag on Mars, and a Green Party senator is about to become the first female president of the United States. At a party in the almost-Utopian world, Kate and Ben fall in love. London, 1593. Kate wakes as Emilia, mistress to a nobleman and friend to a lowly court poet called Will. Afflicted by apocalyptic premonitions, she sets out to save the world. Each decision she makes as Emilia will change Kate's life with Ben forever. 'Bewitchingly complex... Astonishing' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent 'An electrifying novel of love, creativity and madness... Playful, tender and heart breaking' Guardian 'Elegiac and genuinely, unbelievably moving... By the time I got to the end of it, I wanted to go back and read the beginning... You've got to read this book' Helen Lewis, BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review

New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium. A young man, Ben, meets a young woman, Kate--and they begin to fall in love. Kate lives with her head in the clouds, so at first Ben isn't that concerned when she tells him about the recurring dream she's had since childhood. In the dream, she's transported to the past, where she lives a second life as Emilia, the mistress of a nobleman in Elizabethan England. But for Kate, the dream becomes increasingly real, to the point where it threatens to overwhelm her life. And soon she's waking from it to find the world changed--pictures on her wall she doesn't recognize, new buildings in the neighborhood that have sprung up overnight. As Kate tries to make sense of what's happening, Ben worries the woman he's fallen in love with is losing her grip on reality. Both intoxicating and thought-provoking, The Heavens is a powerful reminder of the consequences of our actions, a poignant testament to how the people we love are destined to change, and a masterful exploration of the power of dreams.

New York, sommaren år 2000. Allt verkar gå åt rätt håll i det nya millenniet. Det är första gången på mycket länge som det inte pågår ett krig, en kvinna styr i Vita huset och på New Yorks gator har främlingar börjat hälsa på varandra igen. Kate och Ben är i tjugoårsåldern och träffas på en fest i en lyxig våning på Manhattan. De blir blixtförälskade och till en början är Ben inte orolig när hon berättar om den återkommande drömmen hon haft sedan barnsben. I drömmen lever hon ett andra liv som Emilia, älskarinna till en adelsman i femtonhundratalets England och vän med William Shakespeare. Men drömmen blir allt mer verklig för Kate och varje gång hon vaknar är det till en lite annorlunda version av det New York hon somnade ifrån. Tavlor på väggarna hon inte känner igen, nya byggnader i kvarteret som dykt upp som svampar ur jorden över natten. Medan Kate kämpar för att förstå vad det är som händer, oroar sig Ben för att kvinnan han älskar är på väg att helt tappa greppet om verkligheten. Sandra Newman bor i New York och En annan himmel är hennes fjärde roman. Hon har varit nominerad till Baileys Women's Prize for fiction, Guardian First Book Award och varit på listan över årets bästa böcker i Washington Post och NPR flera gånger. Sandra skriver regelbundet för Harper's och Granta. "Människans medvetande och tidens gåta har fascinerat berättare i hundratals år och precis som i Orlando och Outlander är de själva kärnan i Sandra Newmans fängslande och eleganta fjärde roman." NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Det här är en elegant och lite bångstyrig roman som belyser de oskarpa gränserna mellan kärlek, galenskap, idealism och berättarmakten hos det undermedvetna." CATHERINE LACEY

In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce language, from a remarkable literary talent. My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States . . . In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off of the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies--a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure. When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting with her whole heart and soul to protect the only world she has ever known. Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman delivers an extraordinary post-apocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas. Like Hushpuppy in The Beasts of the Southern Wild grown to adolescence in a landscape as dangerously unpredictable as that of Ready Player One, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.

There they sit, the great tomes of classical literature, taunting you with their length and difficulty, as you ask: which books are the most important and why - and what's actually any good? Why does most writing about the classics have words like 'seminal' or 'oeuvre' in it? What does postmodernism mean? Can I get away with just reading the introduction? Now you can enjoy the classics without fear. This survival kit will guide you painlessly through the Western literary canon, century by century: from Ancient Greek drama to the modern novel, via Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, Tolstoy and Proust. There are entertaining plot summaries, unpretentious definitions of literary movements and fresh insights into authors' lives. With each work assigned ratings from 1 to 10 on Importance, Accessibility and Fun, you'll discover what's really worth bothering with and what you can safely discard without guilt. This book will make the things you've read clearer, inspire you to tackle the ones you've always meant to and make you sound far cleverer than you really are.

A side-splitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists. To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the complicated Renaissance dramas we bluffed our way through in college, the dusty Everyman's Library editions that look classy on the shelf but make us feel guilty because they've never been opened. On a mission to restore the West's great works to their rightful place (they were intended to be entertaining ), Sandra Newman has produced a reading guide like no other. Beginning with Greek and Roman literature, she takes readers through hilarious detours and captivating historical tidbits on the road to Modernism. Along the way, we find parallels between Rabelais and South Park, Jane Austen and Sex and the City, Jonathan Swift and Jon Stewart, uncovering the original humor and riskiness that propelled great authors to celebrity. Packed with pop culture gems, stories of literary hoaxes, ironic day jobs for authors, bad reviews of books that would later become classics, and more.

Ever been betrayed by a pretty cover and a pair of alluring blurbs? Rest assured: Read This Next will never hurt you. The 500 book recommendations contained within these pages have all been carefullyvetted and approved by two literary professionals with discerning taste and witty wit. Arranged into delightful thematic lists, thesesuggestions cover the best of literature high and low, from page-turning classics to mind-expanding fluff; from murder mysteries and post-apocalyptic visions to historical fiction and bathroom books. Each book is paired with deeply insightful, deeply hilarious discussionquestions, perfect for book groups or for readers who just enjoy talking to themselves. In a world where so many books disappoint-- robbing you of your time and money, promising more than they can deliver--Read This Next is the wickedly smart, faithful, and attractive partner you've alwaysdreamed would bring you true and lasting reading happiness.

There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work. But why leave it to guesswork? Misstep by misstep, How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure that your manuscript never rises above the level of unpublishable drivel; that your characters are unpleasant, dimensionless versions of yourself; that your plot is digressive, tedious and unconvincing; and that your style is reliant on mangled clichés and sesquipedalian malapropisms. Alternatively, you can use it to identify the most common mistakes, avoid them and actually write a book that works. Guardian Award shortlisted novelist Sandra Newman and veteran editor Howard Mittelmark have distilled 30 years of teaching, editing, writing and reviewing fiction into a hilarious and liberating guide that is the perfect read for anyone who's ever laughed at a badly written piece of prose and for anyone who's ever penned one - and doesn't want to do it again.

"What do you think of my fiction book writing?" the aspiring novelist extorted. "Darn," the editor hectored, in turn. "I can not publish your novel It is full of what we in the business call 'really awful writing.'" "But how shall I absolve this dilemma? I have already read every tome available on how to write well and get published " The writer tossed his head about, wildly." It might help," opined the blonde editor, helpfully, "to ponder how NOT to write a novel, so you might avoid the very thing "Many writing books offer sound advice on how to write well. This is not one of those books. On the contrary, this is a collection of terrible, awkward, and laughably unreadable excerpts that will teach you what to avoid--at all costs--if you ever want your novel published. In How Not to Write a Novel, authors Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman distill their 30 years combined experience in teaching, editing, writing, and reviewing fiction to bring you real advice from the other side of the query letter. Rather than telling you how or what to write, they identify the 200 most common mistakes unconsciously made by writers and teach you to recognize, avoid, and amend them. With hilarious "mis-examples" to demonstrate each manuscript-mangling error, they'll help you troubleshoot your beginnings and endings, bad guys, love interests, style, jokes, perspective, voice, and more. As funny as it is useful, this essential how-NOT-to guide will help you get your manuscript out of the slush pile and into the bookstore.