Demon syntyy asuntovaunussa majailevalle teini-ikäiselle yksinhuoltajaäidille Appalakkien köyhään vuoristoon, opioidikriisin sydämeen. Pojan tarina kulkee laitoksista ja laiminlyönneistä riippuvuuteen ja rakkaussuhteisiin sekä samalla hurmaa villillä ja viisaalla kertojanäänellään. Pulitzerilla palkittu aikamme merkkiteos on myynyt Yhdysvalloissa yli kaksi miljoonaa kappaletta, ja se käännetään yli 30 kielelle. Barbara Kingsolverilla on poikkeuksellinen kyky antaa ääni syrjäytyneille.

Demon Copperhead

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times ""Ten Best Books of the Year"" ""Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick ""May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees and the recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.

New York Times Bestseller • A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, and Kansas City Star • Winner of the Orange Prize “Breathtaking. . . dazzling.” — New York Times Book Review “Epic and deeply personal. . . . This is thought-provoking, and potentially thought-changing, historical fiction at its best.” — Dallas Morning News In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Barbara Kingsolver, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as well as an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself. Born in the United States, raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd lacks a sense of home in either. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen; from errands he runs in the streets; and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. There, in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America’s hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach—the lacuna—between truth and public presumption. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Kingsolver has created a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.

The Lacuna

"Romanen sjuder av ömhet och hjärtskärande sorg" Göteborgs-Posten "En måste-läsning om att vara människa som berör på djupet och bär på både hopp och medmänsklighet." M-Magasin Demon Copperhead kommer till världen på ett badrumsgolv i en husvagn. Hans artonåriga mamma ligger utslagen av droger och är knappt vid medvetande. Så börjar Demon sitt liv, redan på förhand dömd till en tillvaro kantad av fosterhemsplaceringar, utsatthet och missbruk. I Lee County, Virginia, i Appalachernas sydliga delar växer Demon upp. Här är fattigdomen lika självklar som luften man andas och här marknadsför läkemedelsindustrin skoningslöst sina opioider mot de redan utsatta. Missbruket växer till en epidemi som slår hårt mot hela samhället. Utan några andra tillgångar än sitt kopparfärgade hår, sin krassa humor och sin starka överlevnadsinstinkt, tar sig Demon Copperhead igenom barndomen och ungdomsåren. Han bärs av drömmen som hållit honom uppe ända sedan han var liten: att en dag få se havet. Frågan är vad som krävs för att den ska bli sann. Demon Copperhead är en storslagen och drabbande roman om kärlek, förlust och allt däremellan. Den är också en skoningslös blick på det samhälle som än i dag tillåter de allra svagaste att gå under. Vinnare av Pulitzerpriset 2023 Vinnare av Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 Vinnare av James Tait Black Prize 2023

“The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.” — Los Angeles Times A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver’s remarkable literary career. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places.

The Bean Trees

""Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times."" — Milwaukee Sentinel ""Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend."" —New York Times Book Review In this brilliant essay collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver turns to her favored literary terrain to explore themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Kingsolver's canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois. In sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, Kingsolver the essayist employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction. In High Tide in Tucson, Kingsolver is defiant, funny, and courageously honest.

High Tide in Tucson

“An emotional masterpiece . . . A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul.” —New York Daily News From Barbara Kingsolver, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Demon Copperhead and recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman’s struggle to find her place in the world ""Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."" So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments.

Animal Dreams

National Bestseller “A blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature.” — San Francisco Chronicle In this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer-Prize winning Demon Copperhead, and recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the lush countryside, this novel's intriguing protagonists—a reclusive wildlife biologist, a young farmer's wife marooned far from home, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors—face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth. Prodigal Summer is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself.

Prodigal Summer

New York Times Bestseller ""An intricate story that entwines considerations of faith and faithlessness, inquiry, denial, fear and survival in gorgeously conceived metaphor. Kingsolver has constructed a deeply affecting microcosm of a phenomenon that is manifesting in many different tragic ways, in communities and ecosystems all around the globe.” — Seattle Times A truly stunning and unforgettable work from the extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna (winner of the Orange Prize), The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our particular chosen truths. Kingsolver's riveting story concerns a young wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee who experiences something she cannot explain, and how her discovery energizes various competing factions—religious leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, politicians—trapping her in the center of the conflict and ultimately opening up her world. Flight Behavior represents contemporary American fiction at its finest.

Flight Behavior

Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver’s bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts. Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee Nation begins to investigate the adoption—their new life together begins to crumble. Depicting the clash between fierce family love and tribal law, poverty and means, abandonment and belonging, Pigs in Heaven is a morally wrenching, gently humorous work of fiction that speaks equally to the head and the heart.

Pigs in Heaven

New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek “Kingsolver brilliantly captures both the price of profound change and how it can pave the way not only for future generations, but also for a radiant, unexpected expansion of the heart.” — O: The Oprah Magazine The acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, and recipient of numerous literary awards—including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters—returns with a story about two families, in two centuries, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters paint a startlingly relevant portrait of life in precarious times when the foundations of the past have failed to prepare us for the future. How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family’s one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own. In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks, How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it? A science teacher with a passion for honest investigation, Thatcher Greenwood finds himself under siege: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just published by Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town’s powerful men. A timely and ""utterly captivating"" novel (San Francisco Chronicle), Unsheltered interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval.

Unsheltered

In twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world From the author of High Tide in Tucson, comes Small Wonder, a new collection of essays that begins with a parable gleaned from recent news: villagers search for a missing infant boy and find him, unharmed, in the cave of a dangerous bear that has mothered him like one of her own. Clearly, our understanding of evil needs to be revised. What we fear most can save us. From this tale, Barbara Kingsolver goes on to consider the chasm between the privileged and the poor, which she sees as the root cause of violence and war in our time. She writes about her attachment to the land, to nature and wilderness, trees and mountains--the place from which she tells her stories. Whether worrying about the dangers of genetically engineered food crops, or creating opportunities for children to feel useful and competent--like growing food for the family’s table--Kingsolver looks for small wonders, where they grow, and celebrates them. Cover illustration © Panteek

Small Wonder

""A gorgeous collection. . . . These poems unplug from TV and social media and the outrage of the moment and turn our attention to the immediate and the everlasting, human intimacy and the power and mystery of nature."" —Tampa Bay Times In this intimate collection, Barbara Kingsolver, beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Demon Copperhead, and recipient of numerous literary awards including the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are beautifully crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous In her second poetry collection, Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with “how to” poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins. Closing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders—birdsong and ghost-flowers, ruthless ants, clever shellfish, coral reefs, deadly deserts, and thousand-year-old beech trees—all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves. Altogether, these are poems about transcendence: finding breath and lightness in life and the everyday acts of living. It’s all terribly easy and, as the title suggests, not entirely possible. Or at least, it is never quite finished. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

“A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are.” — Boston Globe Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestselling book describing her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that’s better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. It's a modern classic that will endure for years to come.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Una rivisitazione in chiave moderna di David Copperfield ambientata nella Virginia dei giorni nostri. Demon, figlio di una madre single e adolescente e nato in una roulotte, non possiede altro che un’arguzia feroce e un talento per la sopravvivenza. Tra i pericoli moderni dell’affidamento, il lavoro minorile, l’abbandono scolastico, il successo nello sport, i primi amori, la dipendenza e sconfitte di vario genere, Demon dovrà fare i conti con una società per la quale è invisibile, in cui persino i supereroi hanno abbandonato la provincia a favore delle grandi città. Un romanzo che parla a una nuova generazione di giovani che si sentono dispersi e senza un posto nel mondo.

Damon Fields bliver født på badeværelsesgulvet i en trailerpark i det sydvestlige Virginia i slutningen af 1980'erne. Hans enlige teenagemor har rustet sig til at føde med en blanding af alkohol og stoffer. Mens hun ryger ind og ud af afvænningsklinikker, ryger Damon, der snart får kælenavnet Demon, ind og ud af systemet og diverse plejefamilier. Da han får en knæskade, truer misbrugsmønstret med at gentage sig, og han får brug for sin kampgejst, sin charme, sin humor og sin ukuelige overlevelsesevne for at kunne klare det liv, der venter ham. "Demon Copperhead" er en medrivende dannelsesroman, der strækker sig fra 1980’erne til i dag. Det er en episk fortælling om kærlighed, tab og alt derimellem, og en gribende beretning om det fattige udkants-USA, hvor opioiderne flyder frit, og hver dag er en kamp for overlevelse. ”Måske den bedste roman i 2022. Lige dele morsom og hjerteskærende. Det er fortællingen om en ukuelig dreng, som ingen vil have, men som læserne vil elske.” Washington Post

'Kingsolver maakt maatschappelijke kwesties knap aanschouwelijk en voelbaar, in een plot vol (mis)avonturen die onweerstaanbaar voortdendert. Heel begrijpelijk dat zij juist voor deze roman haar eerste Pulitzer Prize ontving.' Het Parool 'Wat een cadeau om al in maart een van de boeken van het jaar gepresenteerd te krijgen.'***** De Standaard ' Demon Copperhead laat met humor en compassie het gebrek aan keuzes van onderklasse zien.' Trouw 'Een verbluffende en verslavende roman.' VPRO Gids 'Zeer overtuigende en indrukwekkende contemporaine variant op de autobiografische roman van Charles Dickens. Ja, die Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was terecht.' Hans Bouman in de Volkskrant 'Winnaar van de Pulitzer Prize, de Women's Prize for Fiction en uitgeroepen tot een van de tien beste romans van het jaar... De hoge verwachtingen maakt Barbara Kingsolver helemaal waar. Ze schetst een ontluisterend en pijnlijk realistisch beeld van de onderkant van de Amerikaanse samenleving. […] Dat maakt deze grootse roman zowel hilarisch als hartverscheurend.' Zin Magazine 'In 2024 gaat u niets ontroerenders lezen.' De Tijd Barbara Kingsolver ontving de Pulitzer Prize en de Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 voor Demon Copperhead, een beeldend en episch verhaal over een jongen die opgroeit te midden van armoede en drugsverslaving Damon Fields, het zoontje van een alleenstaande tienermoeder, woont in een trailer in de bergen van de zuidelijke Appalachen. Hij heeft hetzelfde koperkleurige haar als zijn overleden vader, aan wie hij ook de bijnaam 'Demon Copperhead' te danken heeft. Afgezien van goede looks, bijtende humor en overlevingsdrift zit hem weinig mee in het leven. Zijn moeder worstelt met haar verslaving aan pijnstillers. Nadat ze in het ziekenhuis terechtkomt met een overdosis, belandt Demon in het ene na het andere pleeggezin. Hij krijgt te maken met kinderarbeid, verwaarlozing en mishandeling, en met de gevolgen van de opiatencrisis die grote delen van de VS treft. Toch is er ook hoop als blijkt dat hij talent heeft voor American football. Zijn geluk is echter van korte duur. Wanneer hij geblesseerd raakt en zware pijnstillers krijgt, dreigt de cyclus van verslaving in zijn familie zich te herhalen. Maar zelfs op het dieptepunt overheerst zijn wil om te overleven. In de pers Een Amerikaanse David Copperfield. In Demon Copperhead wordt het verhaal van Dickens verplaatst naar een hedendaags landelijk Amerika dat kampt met armoede en opiatenverslaving. Kingsolvers roman is even krachtig en meeslepend als het origineel.' The New York Times 'Krachtige plotwendingen en kleurrijke personages: dit is echt verhalen vertellen. En wat voor verhaal: scherpzinnig, bezield en hartverscheurend levensecht.' The Guardian 'Een buitengewone nieuwe roman. Net als in Douglas Stuarts Shuggie Bain of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield is er in Kingsolvers epische verhaal een zelfverklaarde mislukkeling met een hart van goud aan het woord.' San Francisco Chronicle

Born in the US and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing mother, Salome. When a violent incident sends him to North Carolina, he remakes himself in America's hopeful image. But political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption.

""A novel full of miracles.” — Newsweek “Breathtaking. . . unforgettable. . . . This profound, funny, bighearted novel, in which people actually find love and kinship in surprising places, is also heavenly. . . . A rare feat and a triumph.” — Cosmopolitan In Pigs in Heaven, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, picks up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off and continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts. When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen and her mother's belief in her lead to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions. The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past. Pigs in Heaven travels the roads from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation as it draws the reader into a world of heartbreak and redeeming love, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind.

“Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” —Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels, acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of numerous literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of short stories. Spreading her memorable characters over landscapes ranging from Northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. In every setting, her distinctive voice— at times comic, but often heartrending—rings true as she explores the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone. Homeland and Other Stories creates a world of love and possibility that readers will want to take as their own.

Homeland and Other Stories

Ein Trailer in den Wäldern Virginias. Das Land der Tabakfarmer und Schwarzbrenner, der "Hillbilly-Cadillac"-Stoßstangenaufkleber an rostigen Pickups, aufgegeben von sämtlichen Superhelden und dem Rest der Nation. Hier kommt Demon Copperhead zur Welt - die Mutter ist noch ein Teenie und frisch auf Entzug, der Vater tot. Ein Junge mit kupferroten Haaren, großer Klappe und einem zähen Überlebenswillen, trotz allem, was das Leben für ihn bereithält: Armut, Pflegefamilien, Drogensucht, erste Liebe und unermesslicher Verlust. Es ist seine Geschichte, erzählt in seinen Worten, unbekümmert, vorwitzig, von übersprudelnder Lebenskraft. Demon Copperhead ist ein mitreißender Roman über ein Leben auf Messers Schneide, in dem in jedem Moment Hoffnung aufscheint. In der Hörbuchfassung leiht Fabian Busch Demon Copperhead seine jugendliche, einprägsame Stimme.

Demon Copperhead (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Demon Copperhead (Autorisierte Lesefassung)

* NAGRODA PULITZERA 2023 * Laureatka Women’s Prize for Fiction * Jedna z dziesięciu najlepszych książek 2022 roku według „New York Timesa” Demon Copperhead przychodzi na świat w starej przyczepie, u podnóża Appalachów. Nie ma nic, poza odziedziczonymi po zmarłym ojcu rudymi włosami i urodą oraz zjadliwym dowcipem i nieposkromionym wręcz darem przetrwania. W jego krwi buzuje przekazywany przez pokolenia gniew górniczych rodzin z Appalachów zdradzonych przez państwo i przez elity. W tym świecie na Demona czekają tylko zaniedbane szkoły, opieka zastępcza, uzależnienia, zgubne miłości i druzgoczące straty. Ale w jego opowieści jest też iskierka nadziei i humor, który skruszy nawet najtwardsze serca. Czy ten niepokorny chłopiec to współczesne wcielenie dickensowskiego Davida Copperfielda? Barbara Kingsolver przenosi tę wiktoriańską powieść w realia współczesnego amerykańskiego Południa i posyła Demona w epicką podróż – równie brutalną, co wspaniałą. I tak jak Charles Dickens wierzy, że dobrze opowiedziana historia może odmienić rzeczywistość. Demon Copperhead przemawia w imieniu nowego pokolenia zagubionych chłopców i tych wszystkich osób urodzonych w pięknych, choć przeklętych miejscach, których nie potrafią opuścić. Taka powieść zdarza się raz na całe pokolenie – łamie serce, a potem naprawia je tak, jak potrafią tylko najlepsze historie. „Kingsolver zręcznie łączy powieść przygodową z oskarżeniem i przenikliwą diagnozą współczesnej Ameryki uzależnionej od leków. A w tle mamy Dickensa, który też przecież portretował nędzę swoich czasów. Demon ma „gadane”, co wydobywa błyskotliwy przekład Kai Gucio. Śmiech łączy się z grozą, a powieść do końca trzyma za gardło. Warto było zarwać noc”. – Justyna Sobolewska „Kingsolver umiejętnie gra z Dickensem, opisując świat bezwzględny i pełen rozczarowań, a zarazem – paradoksalnie lub nie – daje nadzieję. A jej bohater, współczesny Copperfield, zaprzyjaźnia się z czytelnikiem i budzi nawet te najgłębiej uśpione w nim pokłady empatii”. – Michał Nogaś

Dwukrotna laureatka NAGRODY PULITZERA oraz THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION Dellarobia jest młodą żoną i matką, mieszka na podupadającej farmie, ledwie wiążąc koniec z końcem. Jej życie to pasmo rozczarowań. Pewnego dnia napotyka szokujący widok: jezioro ognia pośród cichej zalesionej doliny. Okazuje się, że jest to stado motyli monarszych, które z niewiadomych przyczyn zjawiło się w wiosce pośród Appalachów. Zjawisko wywołuje wielką konsternację wśród naukowców, przywódców religijnych i dziennikarzy, wywracając życie Dellarobii i okolicznych mieszkańców do góry nogami. Dziewczyna musi skonfrontować się ze swoją rodziną, kościołem, miastem i całym światem, szukając prawdy, która może zniweczyć wszystko, w co kiedykolwiek wierzyła. „Lot motyla” podejmuje jeden z najważniejszych tematów naszych czasów: zmiany klimatyczne. Z wielką empatią Barbara Kingsolver analizuje motywy, które kierują zarówno zaprzeczeniem, jak i wiarą w niepewny świat. Opowiada o małej społeczności i codziennych rozejmach między rozumem, a przekonaniami. „Liryczna, zaangażowana społecznie i pełna pasji” „SUNDAY” „Fascynująca fabuła” „SUNDAY TELEGRAPH” „Fenomenalne” „NEW YORK TIMES” „Powieść, za którą tęskni się po przeczytaniu ostatniej strony” „USA TODAY”

Lot motyla

Ambientada en las montañas del sur de los Apalaches, Demon Copperhead es la historia de un muchacho nacido de una madre soltera adolescente en una caravana, sin más patrimonio que el buen aspecto y el pelo cobrizo de su difunto padre, un ingenio cáustico y un feroz talento para la supervivencia. Relatado con su propia voz, Demon se enfrenta a los peligros modernos de los hogares de acogida, el trabajo infantil, las escuelas en ruinas, el éxito deportivo, la adicción, los amores desastrosos y las pérdidas aplastantes. A través de todo ello, se enfrenta a su propia invisibilidad en una cultura popular en la que incluso los superhéroes han abandonado a los pueblos rurales en favor de las ciudades. Hace muchas generaciones, Charles Dickens escribió David Copperfield a partir de su experiencia como superviviente de la pobreza institucional y sus daños en los niños de su sociedad. Esos problemas aún no se han resuelto en la nuestra. Dickens no es un requisito indispensable para los lectores de esta novela, pero le sirvió de inspiración. Al trasladar una novela épica victoriana al Sur de Estados Unidos contemporáneo, Barbara Kingsolver recurre a la ira y la compasión de Dickens y, sobre todo, a su fe en el poder transformador de una buena historia.

Året är 1959. Den amerikanske baptistpastorn Nathan Price – karg, självgod och gudfruktig – går i spetsen när han med sin hustru och deras fyra döttrar ger sig iväg ut i den afrikanska obygden för att sprida Guds ord till infödingarna i Belgiska Kongo. Kongo står på tröskeln till självständighet och landet sjuder av politisk oro. Snart ska Patrice Lumumba väljas till det fria Kongos förste president. Inbördeskrig hotar. I Giftträdets bibel berättar kvinnorna – hustrun och de fyra döttrarna – om en missionärstillvaro som tar en olycksbådande vändning. Den patriarkaliske fadern, orubblig i sin religiösa övertygelse, utvecklas till en hänsynslös tyrann pch familjen går mot sin upplösning och undergång ... Giftträdets bibel gavs ut för första gången 1998 och blev Barbara Kingsolvers genombrottsroman.

Giftträdets bibel

Ambientada a les muntanyes del sud dels Apalatxes, Demon Copperhead és la història d'un noi nascut d'una mare soltera adolescent en una caravana, sense més patrimoni que el bon aspecte i els cabells rogencs del seu difunt pare, un enginy càustic i un ferotge talent per a la supervivència. Relatat amb la seva veu, Demon s'enfronta als perills moderns de les llars d'acollida, el treball infantil, les escoles en ruïnes, l'èxit esportiu, l'addicció, els amors desastrosos i les pèrdues aclaparadores. A través de tot això, s'enfronta a la seva pròpia invisibilitat en una cultura popular en què fins i tot els superherois han abandonat els pobles rurals a favor de les ciutats. Fa moltes generacions, Charles Dickens va escriure David Copperfield a partir de la seva experiència com a supervivent de la pobresa institucional i els seus danys als nens de la seva societat. Aquests problemes encara no s'han resolt a la nostra. Dickens no és un requisit indispensable per als lectors d'aquesta novel·la, però li va servir d'inspiració. En traslladar una novel·la èpica victoriana al Sud dels Estats Units contemporani, Barbara Kingsolver recorre a la ira i la compassió de Dickens i, sobretot, a la fe en el poder transformador d'una bona història.

Historien udspiller sig i en afsidesliggende dal i Appalacherne i løbet af én lang og varm sommer og beskriver tre kvinder, som på en eller anden måde ikke er faldet til i samfundet. Oppe på bjergskråningen lever Deanne Wolf et eneboerliv som vildtbiolog. I dalen nedenunder bor Lusa Landowski, født og opvokset i en storby og af samme grund aldrig accepteret i det lille samfund. I dalen bor også Nannie Rawley, der er hæmningsløs i sin kampagne for et renere miljø. De tre kvinder oplever i løbet af denne frodige sommer sejre og nederlag, kærlighed og tab, og langsomt drejer en mild vind over i deres retning.

Frodig sommer

Det er bestemt ikke med let hjerte, at Orleanna Price og hendes fire døtre, Rachel, tvillingeparret Leah og Adah, samt lille Ruth May i 1959 følger deres ægtemand og far til missionsstationen dybt inde i Belgisk Congos allertætteste jungle, langt fra al civilisation. Alene det at vælge de få ting, de kan tage med sig (et spejl, er et spejl en absolut nødvendighed?), udløser mange tårevædede scener. Og ankomsten til missionsstationen bekræfter den kvindelige del af familien i deres allerværste anelser – og en hel del mere. Kun Nathan Price er glad: Langt om længe har han fundet sin opgave her i livet, og med stor ildhu og dommedagsrøst tager han fat på at omvende de sagesløse hedninge. Men Nathans Gud har øjensynlig en anden mening, og snart begynder alt, simpelthen alt, at gå galt. Køkkenhaven forsvinder i et mudderælte, menigheden – med høvdingen i spidsen – synes det er en dårlig byttehandel at få kun én gud til gengæld for deres mange, det vrimler med slanger og hærmyrer på march, og da Gud føjer spot til skade og lader familien strande, da borgerkrigen bryder ud, tager Orleanna Price og hendes døtre en beslutning som strider imod alt, hvad de er blevet opdraget til. Barbara Kingsolver har med Gifttræets Evangelium skrevet en uforglemmelig, vidtfavnende, og indimellem meget morsom og hjerteskærende roman om, hvordan nogle mennesker går til grunde, når tingene går dem imod, mens andre kommer styrket ud af prøvelserne.

Gifttræets evangelium

Een prachtige nieuwe uitgave van een moderne klassieker: De gifhouten bijbel van Pulitzer Prize-winnaar Barbara Kingsolver – een meeslepende familiesaga die ruim 25 jaar na eerste verschijning nog niets aan zeggingskracht heeft ingeboet Een grote kracht van Kingsolver is hoe ze werkelijk verschrikkelijke ­situaties nuchter en vaak zelfs laconiek brengt. […] De gifhouten bijbel is een prachtig familie-epos, maar ook een portret van Afrika.’ Trouw Eind jaren vijftig trekt Nathan Price met zijn vrouw Orleanna en hun vier dochters naar een dorp in Congo om de bevolking tot het christendom te bekeren. De onderneming is van het begin af aan gedoemd te mislukken. Het gezin is niet ingesteld op de harde, primitieve levens­omstandigheden, en Nathans fanatisme en onbegrip voor zijn omgeving roepen gevaarlijke reacties over hen af. Als de kerk zijn handen van Nathan af trekt en de onrust in Congo toeneemt, vlucht Orleanna met haar dochters door het oerwoud naar de bewoonde wereld. De gifhouten bijbel is een meeslepende familiegeschiedenis en een ontnuchterend verslag van de gruwelen van religieus fundamentalisme in een uitgebuit land tussen kolonialisme en onafhankelijkheid. In de pers ‘Het bracht Afrika terug in al zijn verschijningsvormen, maar ook ontdekte ik nieuwe, pijnlijke leerzame inzichten in de omgang met culturele misverstanden.’ de Volkskrant ‘Gecanoniseerde everseller De gifhouten bijbel, een verhaal over een predikantenfamilie die in het Belgisch-Congo van halverwege de twintigste eeuw de plaatselijke bevolking wil kerstenen.’ De Groene Amsterdammer ‘Kingsolver is een subliem stiliste.’ NRC ‘De gifhouten bijbel van Barbara Kingsolver is niet alleen opmerkelijk vanwege het verhaal, maar ook vanwege de buitengewone narratieve vorm.’ The Guardian

De gifhouten bijbel

Alles scheint um Willa Knox zusammenzubrechen: Als freie Journalistin steht sie ohne Aufträge da. Ihr Mann Iano verliert seine Professur, Sohn Zeke ist gerade Vater geworden - aber alleinerziehend. Und ihr schwerkranker Schwiegervater schwärmt vom "Megafon", dem republikanischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten. Am selben Fleck, 150 Jahre zuvor, freundet sich ein Lehrer namens Thatcher mit seiner eigenbrötlerischen Nachbarin an. Die Naturforscherin Mary Treat steht in lebhaftem Austausch mit Charles Darwin, doch in der verschworenen Ortsgemeinschaft wird die Theorie von der Evolution als Sünde angeprangert. Was verbindet diese Menschen über die Jahrhunderte hinweg? Ein viktorianisches Haus, das ihnen über dem Kopf einzustürzen droht - und eine Zeit, in der damals wie heute kein Stein auf dem anderen bleibt. Packend, humorvoll, zutiefst menschlich erzählt Barbara Kingsolver von den Verwerfungen der Gegenwart - und davon, was es bedeutet, eine Zuflucht zu haben in der Welt.

Die Unbehausten (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Harrison William Shepherd, da ragazzino, si tuffa nell'imboccatura di una grotta sottomarina ed riemerge in uno cenote, nel mezzo della giungla messicana, bordato di coralli spezzati e dal fondo ricoperto di ossa umane. Ossessionato da quel passaggio, comincerà a riempire taccuini interi di storie e ricordi. "Un mondo altrove" è la storia contenuta in quei taccuini, le vicende della vita irrequieta e avventurosa di William Shepherd, da gli anni della Depressione e il maccartismo, dal Messico agli Stati Uniti, dal servizio a casa di Diego Rivera e Frida Kahlo alle mansioni di segretario presso Lev Trockij, esule a Città del Messico, fino al ritorno negli Stati Uniti, dove vivrà una vita ritirata.

Un mondo altrove

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