Rumaan Alam – författare

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Rumaan Alams "Lämna världen bakom dig" nominerades till National Book Award, klättrade på försäljningslistorna och hyllades av en enig kritikerkår när den kom ut i USA hösten 2020. Romanen har filmatiserats för Netflix, med Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali och Myha'la i rollerna.

NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY:Buzzfeed • The Boston Globe •  The Millions • InStyle • Southern Living • Vogue • Popsugar • Kirkus • The Washington Post • Library Journal • Real Simple • NPR

“With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam’s second novel is both heartfelt and thought-provoking.”   — Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere

From the bestselling author of Leave the World Behind, a novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight to keep

Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. Struggling to juggle the demands of motherhood with her own aspirations and feeling utterly alone in the process, she reaches out to the only person at the hospital who offers her any real help—Priscilla Johnson—and begs her to come home with them as her son’s nanny.

Priscilla’s presence quickly does as much to shake up Rebecca’s perception of the world as it does to stabilize her life. Rebecca is white, and Priscilla is black, and through their relationship, Rebecca finds herself confronting, for the first time, the blind spots of her own privilege. She feels profoundly connected to the woman who essentially taught her what it means to be a mother. When Priscilla dies unexpectedly in childbirth, Rebecca steps forward to adopt the baby. But she is unprepared for what it means to be a white mother with a black son. As she soon learns, navigating motherhood for her is a matter of learning how to raise two children whom she loves with equal ferocity, but whom the world is determined to treat differently.

Written with the warmth and psychological acuity that defined his debut, Rumaan Alam has crafted a remarkable novel about the lives we choose, and the lives that are chosen for us.

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction)

A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher''s Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe

A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.

From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis.

Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe.

Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other? 

Soon to be a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads

A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.

From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped--and unexpected new ones are forged--in moments of crisis.

Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple--it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area--with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service--it's hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple--and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?

Brooke wants. She isn’t in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief? Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.

NAMED ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024  

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S "BEST BOOKS WE'VE READ IN 2024"

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 50 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024  

ONE OF KIRKUS'S "BEST BOOK CLUB FICTION OF 2024"

ONE OF REAL SIMPLE'S BEST BOOKS OF 2O24

"Rumaan Alam is a rarity...Entitlement - a psychological thriller that subtly turns into a vicious exposé of affluent liberalism- also sneaks up on you, and wins you over."-The New York Times

"A brilliant exploration of extreme wealth and how it bends the lives of those close to it... Alam keeps things crystal clear and speedway fast." -The Boston Globe

"Should come with an undertow warning." -Louise Erdrich

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind

Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?

Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.

Amanda și Clay pleacă în vacanță împreună cu copiii lor, departe de agitația din New York, într-un colț îndepărtat din Long Island, unde urmează să stea într-o casă luxoasă, închiriată pentru o săptămână. În prima zi, adulții cumpără cantități enorme de mâncare, dulciuri și băuturi scumpe și profită din plin de piscină. Copiii stau cu ochii lipiți de televizor și de telefoane. Noaptea, însă, paradisul lor se destramă odată cu bătăile în ușă ale unui cuplu în vârstă, de culoare: Ruth și G.H., proprietarii casei, pe care nu-i întâlniseră niciodată personal, aduc vestea că în New York a avut loc o pană de curent, care a lăsat orașul în beznă. În împrejurări tot mai alarmante, cele două familii sunt puse la încercare: Câtă încredere să aibă unii în alții? Este casa de vacanță, izolată de civilizație, un loc în care să se simtă în siguranță? Și, în definitiv, ce s-a întâmplat în lumea de afară, pe care au vrut să o lase în urmă? Rumaan Alam scrie un roman provocator și plin de suspans despre complexitatea misiunii de părinte, despre rasă și clase sociale, despre relevanța unor principii și valori în situații de criză extremă.

„Cea mai bună carte pe care o puteți citi în acest moment... O cursă teribilă perfect construită și, în același timp, un roman de idei, Lasă lumea în urmă combină tehnica narativă iscusită, o perspectivă nemiloasă asupra culturii consumeriste și câteva momente cu adevărat șocante... O lectură excepțională care vă va urmări multă vreme după ce veți parcurge în goană ultimele pagini.“ USA Today

„Atât de inteligent și atât de subtil, încât atrage cititorul într-o falsă impresie de siguranță și stăpânire a situației... Inițial, cartea pare să fie despre căsătorie și familia modernă, priorități și alegeri, despre felul în care se măsoară succesul în secolul XXI – atâta tot. Dar este mult mai mult de atât... Perfect sincronizat cu incertitudinea lumii în care trăim.“ Library Journal

Semester.

Ett sommarhus i oväntad radioskugga.

Två privilegierade familjer som plötsligt tvingas dela på utrymmet.

En katastrof.

Rumaan Alams "Lämna världen bakom dig" nominerades till National Book Award, klättrade på försäljningslistorna och hyllades av en enig kritikerkår när den kom ut i USA hösten 2020. Romanen har filmatiserats för Netflix, med Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali och Myha'la i rollerna.