Flight Behavior
Autor Barbara Kingsolveren Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iun 2013
Imaginați-vă tensiunea din Prodigal Summer, mutată într-un decor de criză ecologică și socială din inima munților Tennessee. Observăm în Flight Behavior aceeași atenție microscopică pentru natură pe care Barbara Kingsolver a demonstrat-o de-a lungul întregii sale cariere, însă aici miza este una globală, deși pornește dintr-o curte de fermă săracă. Premisa este pe cât de simplă, pe atât de tulburătoare: o femeie aflată la un punct de cotitură în viața personală descoperă un fenomen biologic straniu — o migrație masivă de fluturi monarh într-un loc unde aceștia nu ar trebui să existe.
Apreciem modul în care autoarea nu transformă textul într-un manifest, ci construiește o parabolă despre negare și despre felul în care adevărurile noastre personale sunt modelate de comunitatea în care trăim. În contextul operei sale, dacă în The Bean Trees sau Pigs in Heaven accentul cădea pe maternitate și identitate, iar în Demon Copperhead pe supraviețuirea în fața sistemului, Flight Behavior sintetizează aceste teme într-o proză care îmbină rigoarea științifică a biologului cu empatia romancierului.
Structura narativă este una de acumulare, unde ritmul lent al vieții rurale este întrerupt brusc de sosirea oamenilor de știință și a presei. Tonul este unul de o melancolie lucidă, invitându-ne să reflectăm la fragilitatea echilibrului natural. Merită menționat că limba originală (engleza) este folosită aici cu o precizie poetică, descriind peisajul Appalachian ca pe un personaj viu, prins între tradiție și o schimbare climatică inevitabilă pe care mulți refuză să o numească astfel.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0062124277
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 141 x 211 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
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Despre autor
Barbara Kingsolver (n. 1955) este o figură centrală a literaturii americane contemporane, fiind finalistă a Premiului Pulitzer și câștigătoare a Orange Prize for Fiction. Crescută în Kentucky, cu studii superioare în biologie la University of Arizona, ea împletește adesea rigoarea științifică cu teme legate de justiția socială și biodiversitate. Experiența sa de viață, de la copilăria petrecută în Congo până la traiul la o fermă din Appalachia, se reflectă în autenticitatea decorurilor sale rurale. Prin activitatea sa, inclusiv prin înființarea Bellwether Prize, ea susține literatura care promovează schimbarea socială.
Descriere scurtă
Indie Bestseller
Barnes & Noble Bestseller
National Bestseller
Amazon Best Book of the Month
Indie Next Pick
Best Book of the Year: New York Times Notable, Washington Post Notable, Amazon Editor’s Choice, USA Today’s Top Ten (#1), St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star
Prize-winning author: Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award), Orange Prize for Fiction
Prize-winning Author: National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Orange Prize for Fiction, Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award)
"Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words."
—Time
The extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna (winner of the Orange Prize), The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver returns with a truly stunning and unforgettable work. Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our particular chosen truths. Kingsolver's riveting story concerns a young wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee who experiences something she cannot explain, and how her discovery energizes various competing factions—religious leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, politicians—trapping her in the center of the conflict and ultimately opening up her world. Flight Behavior is arguably Kingsolver's must thrilling and accessible novel to date, and like so many other of her acclaimed works, represents contemporary American fiction at its finest.
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Best Book Of The Year
Amazon's Top 100: Editor's Choice
Usa Today Best Book Of The Year
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man.
She hikes up a mountain road behind her house toward a secret tryst, but instead encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media. The bewildering emergency draws rural farmers into unexpected acquaintance with urbane journalists, opportunists, sightseers, and a striking biologist with his own stake in the outcome.
As the community lines up to judge the woman and her miracle, Dellarobia confronts her family, her church, her town, and a larger world, in a flight toward truth that could undo all she has ever believed.
Recenzii
“With her powerful new novel, Kingsolver delivers literary fiction that conveys an urgent social message… a clarion call about climate change, too lucid and vivid for even skeptics to ignore.” — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“…Enthralling…Dellarobia is appealingly complex as a smart, curious, warmhearted woman desperate to-no resisting the metaphor here-trade her cocoon for wings.” — Oprah.com
“A dazzling page-turner” — Elle
“Kingsolver has written one of the more thoughtful novels about the scientific, financial and psychological intricacies of climate change. And her ability to put these silent, breathtakingly beautiful butterflies at the center of this calamitous and noisy debate is nothing short of brilliant.” — Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Dellarobia is a smart, fierce, messy woman, and one can’t help rooting for her to find her wings.” — Entertainment Weekly
“Dellarobia is appealingly complex as a smart, curious, warmhearted woman desperate to-no resisting the metaphor here-trade her cocoon for wings.” — O, the Oprah Magazine
“One of the gifts of a Kingsolver novel is the resplendence of her prose. She takes palpable pleasure in the craft of writing, creating images that stay with the reader long after her story is done…(a) majestic and brave new novel.” — New York Times Book Review
“Kingsolver has constructed a deeply affecting microcosm of a phenomenon that is manifesting in many different tragic ways, in communities and ecosystems all around the globe. This is a fine and complex novel.” — Seattle Times
“So captivating is this grand, suspenseful plot and the many subplots rising and falling beneath it that it takes some time before we realize what this story is really about -- climate change.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Spirituality, a troubled marriage, global warming…Kingsolver’s latest is a bold mélange, but it works.” — People
“Kingsolver is a storyteller first and foremost, as sensitive to human interactions and family dynamics as she is to ecological ones.” — NPR
“a delicate symbiosis between the sacred and the scientific in this richly rewarding novel that will both entertain and incite its readers.” — BookPage
“FLIGHT BEHAVIOR is a book worth reading twice? first for the intricacies of character, second for the dense, beautiful language Kingsolver puts on the page. She’s a keen observer of the messiness and unexpected beauty of the quotidian.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
“By the end of FLIGHT BEHAVIOR, it’s clear that Kingsolver’s passionate voice and her ability to portray the fragility of the natural world, and why we should care about it, are as strong as ever.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“Novelists like Kingsolver have a particular knack for making us empathize with lives that may bear little resemblance to our own…What lifts FLIGHT BEHAVIOR…is not just Kingsolver’s nuanced and funny prose; it’s Dellarobia’s awakening to the possibilities around her.” — Julia Ingalls, Salon
“FLIGHT BEHAVIOR is a terrifically entertaining read about a spirited young woman you’ll miss the minute you reach the last page.” — USA Today
“Marvelous…This is fiction rich in empathy, wit and science. Like the butterflies that astonish Feathertown, Kingsolvian gifts are ‘fierce and wondrous,’ ‘colors moving around like fire.’” — New York Times
“[Kingsolver’s] keen grasp of delicate ecosystems-both social and natural-keeps the story convincing and compelling.” — The New Yorker
Notă biografică
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts, as well as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.