Siri Hustvedt - Böcker

Konsthistorikern Leo Hertzberg upptäcker en fantastisk målning av en okänd konstnär på ett galleri i New York. Han köper tavlan och spårar upp dess skapare, Bill Weschler. Detta blir inledningen till en livslång vänskap. Leos berättelse, som spänn...

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'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author o...

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"En tid efter det att han hade yttrat ordet paus blev jag galen och hamnade på sjukhus." När Mia Fredricksens make Boris meddelar att han behöver tid för sig själv rasar hennes tillvaro samman. I själva verket har han förälskat sig i en ...

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'Substantial, moving and beautifully written' - Independent on Sunday'A love story with the grip and suspense of a thriller.' - Times Literary Supplement In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist ...

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After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York, Erik sets a...

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Konstnärinnan Harriet Burden känner uppgivenhet inför att ständigt förbises av New Yorks konstnärselit. Då bestämmer hon sig för att genomföra ett experiment: hon döljer sin identitet bakom tre påhittade manliga konstnärsalias. Men när hon till si...

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'Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling' Sunday Times 'A love story with the grip and suspense of a thriller.' - Times Literary Supplemen In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York...

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Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered w...

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Konstnärinnan Harriet Burden känner uppgivenhet inför att ständigt förbises av New Yorks konstnärselit. Då bestämmer hon sig för att genomföra ett experiment: hon döljer sin identitet bakom tre påhittade manliga konstnärsalias. Men när hon till si...

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Named one of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books o...

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Hon är en åldrande författare som minns tillbaka till den tid då hon anlände till New York. Året var 1978. Hon kom från landet, Minnesota, hade inga pengar - men önskade inget hellre än att få uppleva den stora stadens magi, litteraturen, konstnär...

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Hon är en åldrande författare som minns tillbaka till den tid då hon anlände till New York. Året var 1978. Hon kom från landet, Minnesota, hade inga pengar - men önskade inget hellre än att få uppleva den stora stadens magi, litteraturen, konstnär...

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Hon är en åldrande författare som tänker tillbaka på den tid då hon anlände till New York. Året var 1978. Hon kom från landet, Minnesota, hade inga pengar - men önskade inget hellre än att få uppleva den stora stadens magi, litteraturen, konstnäre...

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A provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Siri Hustvedt's own illustrations - a tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved writers.Fresh from Minnesota and hungry for all New York ha...

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I "Leva, tänka, titta" har Siri Hustvedt samlat sina bästa essäer från de senaste åren, bland annat om författare och konstnärer som Louise Bourgeois, Gerhard Richter, Stig Dagerman, Inger Christensen och Francisco de Goya. Boken är indelad i tre ...

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'A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership... very much a book for our times' Siri Hustvedt, from the introduction'A literary giant in Sweden, Dagerman conjures a Strindbergi...

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From the author of "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" comes a powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages.

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The protagonist of Siri Hustvedt's astonishing second novel is a heroine of the old style: tough, beautiful, and brave. Standing at the threshold of adulthood, she enters a new world of erotic adventure, profound but unexpected friendship, and ine...

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From the author of the international bestseller "What I Loved, " a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers. Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hu...

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When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note among their late father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. This masterful novel reveals one family's hidden sorrows in an "elegant meditation on f...

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In this unique neurological memoir, Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Despite her flapping arms and ...

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From the internationally bestselling author of WHAT I LOVED comes a provocative, witty, and revelatory trade paperback original about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.

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Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered w...

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Lily Dahl is a heroine of the old school: tough, beautiful and brave. A nineteen-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Webster, Minnesota, she becomes enchanted by an exotic outsider - an artist from New York. Drawn into a world of erot...

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A stunning collection of essays by the author of WHAT I LOVED, in which she addresses many of the themes explored in her novels - identity, sexual attraction, relationships, family, mental illness, the power of the imagination, a sense of belongin...

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My sister called it 'the year of secrets,' but when I look back on it now, I've come to understand that it was a time not of what was there, but of what wasn't. 'It is a rare writer who can both rouse the mind and grip the heart, and all the while...

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By the bestselling author of WHAT I LOVED, an intimate and enlightening account of her search for the key to her mysterious nervous disorder, which brilliantly illuminates the connection between mind and body. 'Readers of Oliver Sacks will rate th...

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In this innovative synthesis of words and images, the award-winning author of Open City and photography critic for The New York Times Magazine combines two of his great passions.One of Time’s Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of the Year • One o...

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"LIVING, THINKING, LOOKING is divided into three sections: the essays in Living draw directly from Hustvedt's life; those in Thinking explore memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the pieces in Looking are about visual art. And yet, the s...

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