Sandra Newman – författare

Vackert och tankeväckande om frihetens pris

Det är en vanlig augustikväll och Jane är ute och campar med sin make och femårige son. När hon vaknar på morgonen är hon ensam i tältet. Något mycket märkligt har hänt, alla med en Y-kromosom har försvunnit spårlöst från jordens yta.

Samtidigt som kvinnor världen över brottas med sorg och saknad, måste de nu gå samman för att försöka förhindra att samhället kollapsar. Men mystiska videoklipp börjar snart spridas på nätet, med oroväckande ledtrådar om vad som egentligen har hänt. Kanske finns det ett sätt att få alla män att komma tillbaka - men till vilket pris?

Männen är en vacker, förkrossande och djupt rörande roman om feministiska utopier och omöjliga uppoffringar.

"Det är för konstigt och samtidigt kittlar den så mycket! /.../ Det är inte så likt annat man läser så jag tänker: Kul, testa!" Titti Schultz, Svt Go'kväll

"Romanen väcker intressanta frågor: Vad är vi villiga att offra för att rädda världen? Och vice versa: vilket pris är vi beredda att betala för att ännu en tid få behålla det vi känner till, det vi är vana vid och de vi älskar?" Dagens Nyheter

"Ett bländande exempel på tankeväckande skönlitteratur" - Observer    

Sandra Newman är en amerikansk författare bosatt i New York. Hennes fjärde roman En annan himmel utkom på svenska 2019.

In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce language, from a remarkable literary talent.

My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States . . .

In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off of the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies—a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure.

When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting with her whole heart and soul to protect the only world she has ever known.

Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman delivers an extraordinary post-apocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas. Like Hushpuppy in The Beasts of the Southern Wild grown to adolescence in a landscape as dangerously unpredictable as that of Ready Player One, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.

When Chrysalis Moffat and her brother, Eddie, inherit a mansion on the coast of California, Eddie hatches a plan to fleece credulous Californians of their cash by starting the fraudulent Tibetan School of Miracles.

But something else is happening. Through Chrysalis''s reunion with her brother, she begins to discover her adoptive father''s secret past, causing her own identity to unravel. As Chrysalis lays down the facts of her life, she gambles her identity against the contradictions, half-truths, and fables of her past, leading her ultimately to question what it is we can truly know and whether it is fate or chance that dictates our lives.

A PEOPLE Magazine Must-Read Book for Fall 2023 | An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2023 | A Guardian Biggest New Book of 2023 | A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2023

An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman.

Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother. In short, everything about this world is as it is in Orwell’s 1984.

All her life, Julia has known only Oceania, and, until she meets Winston Smith, she has never imagined anything else. She is an ideal citizen: cheerfully cynical, always ready with a bribe, piously repeating every political slogan while believing in nothing. She routinely breaks the rules, but also collaborates with the regime when necessary. Everyone likes Julia.

Then one day she finds herself walking toward Winston Smith in a corridor and impulsively slips him a note, setting in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story. Julia takes us on a surprising journey through Orwell’s now-iconic dystopia, with twists that reveal unexpected sides not only to Julia, but to other familiar figures in the 1984 universe. This unique perspective lays bare our own world in haunting and provocative ways, just as the original did almost seventy-five years ago.