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High House
Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award
AvJessie Greengrass
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
118 kr
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‘SUFFUSED WITH JOY’ Guardian, ‘PROPHETIC’ Daily Mail, ‘BEAUTIFUL’ Scotsman, ‘IMMERSIVE’ IMAGEPerched on a hill above a village by the sea, the high house has a mill, a vegetable garden and a barn full of supplies.Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive there one day to find it cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally. Not quite a family, they learn to live together, and care for one another.But there are limits even to what the ailing Grandy knows about how to survive, and, if the storm comes, it might not be enough.‘Deeply moving … so grounded in reality and the ordinariness of the lives of this disparate group, that I had to read parts of it through my fingers’ Good Housekeeping Books of the Year
Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It
A John Murray Original
AvJessie Greengrass
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
44 kr
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WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016''Greengrass is undoubtedly that rare thing, a genuinely new and assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky and heartfelt'' A. L. KennedyThe twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world.There are stories about those who are lonely, or estranged, or out of time. There are hauntings, both literal and metaphorical; and acts of cruelty and neglect but also of penance.Some stories concern themselves with the present, and the mundane circumstances in which people find themselves: a woman who feels stuck in her life imagines herself in different jobs - as a lighthouse keeper in Wales, or as a guard against polar bears in a research station in the Arctic.Some stories concern themselves with the past: a sixteenth-century alchemist and doctor, whose arrogance blinds him to people''s dissatisfaction with their lives until he experiences it himself.Finally, in the title story, a sailor gives his account - violent, occasionally funny and certainly tragic - of the decline of the Great Auk.
Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It
A John Murray Original
AvJessie Greengrass
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
141 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016'Greengrass is undoubtedly that rare thing, a genuinely new and assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky and heartfelt' A. L. KennedyThe twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world.There are stories about those who are lonely, or estranged, or out of time. There are hauntings, both literal and metaphorical; and acts of cruelty and neglect but also of penance.Some stories concern themselves with the present, and the mundane circumstances in which people find themselves: a woman who feels stuck in her life imagines herself in different jobs - as a lighthouse keeper in Wales, or as a guard against polar bears in a research station in the Arctic.Some stories concern themselves with the past: a sixteenth-century alchemist and doctor, whose arrogance blinds him to people's dissatisfaction with their lives until he experiences it himself.Finally, in the title story, a sailor gives his account - violent, occasionally funny and certainly tragic - of the decline of the Great Auk.
Sight
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
AvJessie Greengrass
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
44 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019''A stunning debut'' GuardianIn Jessie Greengrass'' superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Röntgen''s discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud''s development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies.Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves.
Sight
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
AvJessie Greengrass
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
271 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019'A stunning debut' GuardianIn Jessie Greengrass' superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies.Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves.
Reverse Engineering
AvJon McGregor,Sarah Hallm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
144 kr
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Reverse Engineering
AvMahreen Sohail,Chris Powerm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2022
69 kr
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Seven of the best recent short stories, disassembled by their authors.An innovative anthology revealing the inspiration, the ideals and the work involved in a great short story. Reverse Engineering brings together contemporary classic stories with their authors'' discussions of how they were written.
Poet and the Echo
AvLeila Aboulela,David Almondm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
131 kr
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High House
Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award
AvJessie Greengrass
E-bok
Engelska, 2021
119 kr
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‘SUFFUSED WITH JOY’ Guardian, ‘PROPHETIC’ Daily Mail, ‘BEAUTIFUL’ Scotsman, ‘IMMERSIVE’ IMAGEPerched on a hill above a village by the sea, the high house has a mill, a vegetable garden and a barn full of supplies.Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive there one day to find it cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally. Not quite a family, they learn to live together, and care for one another.But there are limits even to what the ailing Grandy knows about how to survive, and, if the storm comes, it might not be enough.‘Deeply moving … so grounded in reality and the ordinariness of the lives of this disparate group, that I had to read parts of it through my fingers’ Good Housekeeping Books of the Year
High House
A Novel
AvJessie Greengrass
E-bok
Engelska, 2022
193 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Novel Award In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster.Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the rising water that threatens to destroy the town and that has, perhaps, already destroyed everything else. But for how long? Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive at the High House after her father and stepmother fall victim to a faraway climate disaster—but not before they call and urge Caro to leave London. In their new home, a converted summer house cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally, the two pairs learn to live together. Yet there are limits to their safety, limits to the supplies, limits to what Grandy—the former village caretaker, a man who knows how to do everything—can teach them as his health fails. A searing novel that takes on parenthood, sacrifice, love, and survival under the threat of extinction, The High House is a stunning, emotionally precise novel about what can be salvaged at the end of the world.
Und dann verschwand die Zeit
AvJessie Greengrass
Inbunden, Tyska, 2023
281 kr
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Und dann verschwand die Zeit
Roman
AvJessie Greengrass
E-bok
Tyska, 2023
215 kr
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Ein atemberaubender, emotional präziser Roman über Elternschaft, Aufopferung, Liebe und das Überleben unter der Bedrohung der Auslöschung, der unter die Haut geht und zeigt, was auf dem Spiel steht.Auf einer Anhöhe abseits einer kleinen Stadt am Meer liegt das High House. Dort leben Grandy und seine Enkeltochter Sally sowie Caro und ihr Halbbruder Pauly. Das Haus verfügt über ein Gezeitenbecken und eine Mühle, einen Gemüsegarten und eine Scheune voller Vorräte – die Vier sind vorerst sicher vor dem steigenden Wasser, das die Stadt zu zerstören droht. Aber wie lange noch?Caro und ihr jüngerer Halbbruder Pauly kommen im High House an, nachdem ihr Vater und ihre Stiefmutter, zwei Umweltforscher*innen, sie aufgefordert haben, London zu verlassen, um im höher gelegenen Haus Zuflucht zu suchen. In ihrem neuen Zuhause, einem umgebauten Sommerhaus, das von Grandy und seiner Enkelin Sally betreut wird, lernen die Vier, miteinander zu leben. Doch das Leben ist anstrengend, besonders im Winter, die Vorräte sind begrenzt. Wie lange bietet das Haus noch die erhoffte Sicherheit?
Was wir voneinander wissen
Roman
AvJessie Greengrass
E-bok
Tyska, 2020
193 kr
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Ein philosophischer Roman über die Frage, wie man Erkenntnisse gewinnt und die richtigen Entscheidungen trifft.Eine junge Frau steht vor einer lebensverändernden Entscheidung und stellt sich deshalb die Frage, wie man eigentlich Erkenntnisse gewinnt. Sie überdenkt ihre eigene Situation und die ihrer Mutter und Großmutter, betrachtet aber auch die Erfolge berühmter Wissenschaftler, um so zu verstehen, was das Leben eigentlich ausmacht und wie man voneinander lernen kann. Will ich ein Kind? Will ich es jetzt? Was gibt dem Leben Bedeutung? Die Ich-Erzählerin versucht, im Leben ihrer verstorbenen Mutter und ihrer Großmutter, die Psychoanalytikerin war, Antworten auf diese essenziellen Fragen zu finden. Auf der Suche nach einem Muster, das sich auf ihr eigenes Leben übertragen lässt, nimmt sie Wendepunkte im Leben wichtiger Persönlichkeiten der Medizingeschichte in den Blick: Röntgen und seine Entdeckung der X-Strahlen, Sigmund und Anna Freud und ihre Entwicklung der Psychoanalyse sowie John Hunter, der die Anatomie erforschte. Wie fällt man rationale Entscheidungen, wenn man die emotionalen Konsequenzen nicht absehen kann? Kann man aus der Geschichte und den Errungenschaften anderer lernen und für das eigene Leben Schlüsse ziehen? Die Autorin, für ihre Erzählungen mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, erkundet in ihrem ersten Roman auf höchstem Niveau die Angst, folgenreiche Fehler zu machen.
Sedd
AvJessie Greengrass
Häftad, Svenska, 2021
184 kr
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Romanen Sedd av Jessie Greengrass i översättning av Andreas Vesterlund. Det handlar om att bli och vara mamma, om att minnas sin egen mamma, om att jämföra sig med henne. Om rädslan för att inte räcka till, inte nå fram, kanske inte ens känna igen eller älska sitt eget barn. För vad innebär "att vara sedd"? En lustig detalj är bilden som blivit bokens omslag. Det är en ruta ur en av världens första filmer, en fyrtiotvå sekunder lång film som visar hur filmkamerans uppfinnare Louis Lumière håller i sin lilla dotter så att hon kan plaska med händerna i en skål med guldfiskar. Det är roligt, hon är förtjust. Under en bråkdel av en sekund tittar hon på sin pappa. Ska vi gissa att hon just då känner sig sedd? Romanens huvudperson är gravid för andra gången när boken börjar. Hon sitter vid sitt skrivbord och spelar upp Lumiérefilmen på sin dator och samtidigt ser hon sin make leka med deras lilla dotter i trädgården utanför. Hon slås av en omvälvande tanke - att hon redan kan uppleva separationen: Det är "som om jag känner henne allt mindre ju mer hon blir sig själv. Det är precis så det ska vara, hon ger sig av medan jag blir kvar, men ändå tror jag att om jag kunde så skulle jag sträcka mig efter henne där hon står, inramad av forsythiabuskens gula blomsterexplosion, och dra henne till mig igen, behålla henne inom synhåll för alltid så att hon aldrig blir något mer än summan av det jag vet om henne." Kärlek och separation, närhet och avstånd... Och det handlar om så mycket mer... Om Bertha Röntgen som förvånat följde sin makes upptäckt av röntgenstrålarna, dessa märkliga strålar som kunde se rätt in i människokroppen. Och om Anna Freud som hjälpte sin pappa Sigmund så till den grad att hon efter hans död blev hans talesperson. Och om tidig kirurgi som förtvivlat kämpade med att försöka rädda både barn och moder vid förlossningar som betraktades som fullständigt omöjliga. Och så handlar det förstås om bröderna Lumière som gjorde de allra första filmerna. Jessie Greengrass är ett nytt stjärnskott på den engelska litteraturens himmel. Hon tilldelades det prestigefyllda Somerset Maugham-priset redan för sin debutbok. Sedd (originalets titel: Sight) är hennes första roman. Hon hyllas av en enig kritikerkår för Sedd. Romanen är "unik och fascinerande" (The New Yorker), "makalöst intelligent och sonderande" (Irish Times), skriven med "precision och ärlighet" (Publisher's Weekly). "Greengrass röst är smart och originell" (Elle). Romanen Sedd av Jessie Greengrass. Översättning Andreas Vesterlund. ISBN 978-91-7742-561-8. Högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, mjuka pärmar med flikar. 208 sidor.

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Jessie Greengrass – författare

High House

Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It

Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It

Sight

Sight

Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering

Poet and the Echo

High House

High House

Und dann verschwand die Zeit

Und dann verschwand die Zeit

Was wir voneinander wissen

Sedd

Mina sidor

Mina sidor

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Hjälp

Om Bokus

Om Bokus

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