SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
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Köp båda 2 för 298 krThis wrenching new novel by Jesmyn Ward digs deep into the not-buried heart of the American nightmare. A must -- Margaret Atwood * Twitter * A novel as blazingly hymn-like as the title suggests -- Jon McGregor * New Statesman 'Books of the Year' * Beautiful in every sense ... Her characters feel wholly true ... Long after the end, we continue to worry after them, love them in spite of their faults, and feel their pain * Spectator * Hauntingly lyrical * Mail on Sunday * A powerfully alive novel haunted by ghosts; a road trip where people can go but they can never leave; a visceral and intimate drama that plays out like a grand epic, Sing, Unburied, Sing is staggering -- Marlon James, Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 The connection between the injustices of the past and the desperation of present are clearly drawn in Sing, Unburied, Sing, a book that charts the lines between the living and the dead, the loving and the broken. I am a huge fan of Jesmyn Wards work, and this book proves that she is one of the most important writers in America today -- Ann Patchett Ward is a lyrical, visceral storyteller, one who is as adept at conveying the tenderness of sibling love as the terror and brutality of racist violence * Daily Mail * Blazing with power, grief and tenderness, Jesmyn Wards third novel breathes danger into the classic American road trip What might, in less sure hands, have remained a local tale, makes a searing story of universal power Ward takes the territory made so familiar by writers such as William Faulkner or Eudora Welty, and reclaims it * Financial Times * Ghosts, the voices of the dying, painful journeys across an unforgiving country. This is Faulkner territory. Wards updated version is gruesomely fascinating, especially as she rounds out her story with characters of real-world complexity Her cool handling of the mythical tropes of journeying and listening to ancestral voices makes this a harrowing, essential novel for our times * The Times * Maybe thats the miracle here: that ordinary people whose lives have become so easy to classify into categories like rural poor, drug-dependent, products of the criminal justice system, possess the weight and the value of the mythic Such feats of empathy are difficult, all too often impossible to muster in real life. But they feel genuinely inevitable when offered by a writer of such lyric imagination as Ward * New York Times Book Review * Ward's prose is characterised by its lyrical beauty: woven throughout are precise, elegant registrations of sensory impression, miniature epiphanies that momentarily lift us from the immediate situation ... undeniably well-executed * Sunday Times * It is rich, sometimes unbearably so ... The signal characteristic of Wards prose is its lyricism ... the effect is hypnotic ... This, and her ease with vernacular language, puts Ward in fellowship with such forebears as Zora Neale Hurston and William Faulkner ... The tone and atmosphere in Sing, Unburied, Sing call out, too, to Toni Morrisonparticularly Beloved, whose most sorrowful revelations are echoed in the climax of Sing * New Yorker * Combines aspects of the American road novel and the ghost story with an exploration of the long aftershocks of a hurricane -- Notable Books of the Year * New York Times Book Review * Most effective as a poetic critique of US history ... A brooding, pained meditation on the proposition, spelled out by Colson Whitehead in The Underground Railroad, that America is a ghost in the darkness * Guardian * The heir to Faulkner * Time * However eternal its concerns, Sing, Unburied, Sing" is perfectly poised for the moment * New York Times * One of the most powerfully poetic writers in the country ... Readers may be reminded of the trapped spirits in George Saunderss recent novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, but Toni Morrisons Beloved is a more direct antecedent * Washingto
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the 2017 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Rene Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.