Sigrid Nunez – författare

När en kvinna oväntat mister sin vän och mentor får hon istället mot sin vilja ansvar för hunden han lämnat efter sig. Sorgen förstärks av att hunden, en enorm grand danois som älskade sin husse, också sörjer djupt, och att hon nu hotas av vräkning eftersom hundar inte är tillåtna i det hus i New York där hon bor. Allt eftersom dagarna går blir kvinnan alltmer besatt av att sköta om hunden. Hon vägrar lämna dess sida, fast besluten om att läsa dess tankar och tränga in i dess hjärta. Människor runt dem börjar bli oroliga och dag för dag rämnar tillvaron alltmer. Men hur mörkt det än ser ut nu, kan saker och ting förändras ...

Vännen är en kritikerrosad romanpärla om livets stora frågor, skriven på ett lysande språk och med oemotståndlig mörk humor.

"Skildringen är stillsam och vacker med en varm, lågmäld humor som en positiv motpol till sorgen." Marianne Berglund, BTJ

"Vacker ... full av insikter om kärlek, död, konst och sorg." Wall Street Journal

"Ironisk, charmerande och full av anspelningar ..." New York Times

"En berättelse om kärlek, om mani, och om att läka." Vanity Fair

"En inträngande och djupt rörande betraktelse av förlust, tröst, minnen ... Nunez skriver med en svidande syrlig skärpa och intelligens." NPR

"Stillsamt briljant och mörkt humoristisk ... Den tar andan ur läsaren, både med sin smärta och sin skönhet." Kirkus

*** SIGRID NUNEZ har skrivit åtta uppmärksammade romaner som översatts till fler än 20 språk och belönats med en rad prestigefulla utmärkelser, bland annat en Whiting Writers Award, Rome Prize in Literature och Berlin Prize Fellowship. Vännen belönades med National Book Award 2018 och blev hennes stora genombrott. Nunez har bland annat undervisat i skrivande vid Columbia, Princeton, Boston University och flera andra universitet. Hon bor i New York.

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS AND BILL MURRAY

The paths of two women from different walks of life intersect amid counterculture of the 1960s in this haunting and provocative novel from the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend It is Columbia University, 1968. Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as roommates on the first night. Ann is rich and radical; Georgette is leery and introverted, a child of the very poverty and strife her new friend finds so noble. The two are drawn together by their differences; two years later, after a violent fight, they part ways. When, in 1976, Ann is convicted of killing a New York cop, Georgette comes back to their shared history in search of an explanation. She finds a riddle of a life, shaped by influences more sinister and complex than any of the writ-large sixties movements. She realises, too, how much their early encounter has determined her own path and why, after all this time, as she tells us, ''I have never stopped thinking about her''.''A brilliant, dazzling, daring novel'' Boston Globe''A subtle and profoundly moving novel about friendship, romantic idealism and shame'' O, The Oprah Magazine''An unflinching examination of justice, race and political idealism that brings to mind Philip Roth''s American Pastoral and the tenacious intelligence of Nadine Gordimer'' New York Times

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From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, the moving and eerily relevant novel that imagines the aftermath of a flu pandemic as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy uncertain of his destiny.In an America devastated by a flu pandemic, orphaned thirteen-year-old C ole finds safety and stability with an evangelical pastor and his wife. Happiness becomes disquiet as he realises the cost at which this peace comes, and the extent to which it challenges everything he knows.Salvation City is a story of love, betrayal, and forgiveness, blending a deeply affecting portrait of one young boy''s transformation with a profound meditation on belief, heroism, and the true meaning of salvation.''A tale of an American near-apocalypse that ... reads beautifully, at time joyously, and makes one reconsider the ordering of our world'' Gary Shteyngart''Not only timely and thought-provoking but also generous in its understanding of human nature. When the apocalypse comes, I want Nunez in my lifeboat'' Vanity Fair''Nunez''s writing is gorgeously spare, and she gets the life and the lingo of a teenage boy just right.... A gorgeously strange novel'' Boston Globe''A satisfying, provocative and very plausible novel'' Abraham Verghese, New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice''A wise and richly humane coming-of-age novel'' O Magazine

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.''A pleasure from the first page to the last'' JONATHAN FRANZEN***With an introduction by Susan Choi***A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, who meet in postwar Germany and settle in New York City. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, the narrator escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents'' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet-these are the elements that shape the young woman''s imagination and her sexuality.''A forceful novel by a writer of uncommon talent'' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

***A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, PROSPECT, HARPER''S BAZAAR, VOGUE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICE, NEW REPUBLIC AND KIRKUS***''A sharp-eyed and tender novel about human connection'' (PAULA HAWKINS) from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend''Layered and thoughtful ... it''s plainly written, but has beautiful depths'' TELEGRAPH - THE 75 HOTTEST BOOKS OF 2024 SO FAR''A must-read about unlikely friendships'' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE''One of my favourite authors'' NATALIE PORTMAN''A novel that truly, truly speaks to the soul'' GLAMOUR''Makes you feel smarter and more alive'' PEOPLEThree strangers are thrown together in one Manhattan apartment: a solitary writer; a Gen Z college drop-out; and a spirited parrot named Eureka. As the world outside descends into turmoil, the three of them must learn how to live with and care for one another - and discover what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other.''Compulsively readable'' ELLE''A gorgeous, funny novel about connection'' iPAPER''A breath of fresh air for a time when it still sometimes feels there isn''t any'' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING''Beautiful and profound'' MEG MASON''Infused with moments of hilarity and wisdom. Beautiful'' WOMAN''S WEEKLY''Filled with moments of the sublime'' CAROLINE O''DONOGHUE''Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don''t look back'' ANNE ENRIGHT''Cracks open windows and offers a reassuring breeze, reminding us that it''s OK - and perhaps even necessary - to need each other; it''s only human'' SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE''I am committed, until one of us dies, to Nunez''s novels. They are short, wise, provocative, funny'' NEW YORK TIMES

A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.