Outlawed
Autor Anna Northen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 ian 2021
Ce se întâmplă atunci când biologia devine o sentință cu moartea? În universul construit de Anna North, anul 1894 nu este doar o epocă a expansiunii spre Vest, ci un timp al supravegherii brutale a corpului feminin. Miza psihologică a romanului Outlawed se concentrează pe Ada, o tânără a cărei singură vină este incapacitatea de a rămâne însărcinată într-o lume bântuită de urmările unei epidemii devastatoare de gripă. Suntem de părere că forța acestei scrieri rezidă în modul în care transformă vulnerabilitatea într-o formă de rezistență armată.
Perspectiva narativă este una confesivă și urgentă. Când Ada fuge pentru a scăpa de acuzația de vrăjitorie, ea nu găsește doar libertatea, ci o comunitate de proscrise. Structura cărții îmbină dinamismul unui roman de aventuri — cu jafuri și planuri riscante — cu o reflecție profundă asupra autonomiei corporale. Cine a citit The Outlander de Gil Adamson va recunoaște aici arhetipul femeii care fuge de lege prin peisaje aspre, însă Outlawed se distinge prin dimensiunea sa colectivă și politică. Dacă în alte scrieri western accentul cade pe individualismul masculin, aici North creează un spațiu pentru identități queer și non-conforme, oferind o voce celor uitați de istoria oficială.
În contextul operei sale, Anna North continuă să exploreze portrete feminine complexe, așa cum a făcut-o și în The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. Totuși, dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea pe sacrificiul artistic sau supraviețuirea distopică, aici autoarea folosește genul western pentru a chestiona miturile fundamentale ale societății americane. Rezultatul este un text care pulsează de tensiune, dar care lasă loc pentru momente de o tandrețe neașteptată între personajele sale marginale.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1635575427
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 168 x 239 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o reinterpretare modernă și subversivă a genului western. Outlawed nu este doar o poveste despre supraviețuire, ci un manifest despre puterea de a-ți defini propria valoare în afara normelor sociale impuse. Veți câștiga o perspectivă proaspătă asupra istoriei, ambalată într-o narațiune alertă, plină de suspans și compasiune, ideală pentru fanii prozei de tip distopic sau feminist.
Despre autor
Anna North este o scriitoare și jurnalistă americană de succes, cunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina comentariul social cu ficțiunea literară de înaltă calitate. Absolventă a prestigiosului Iowa Writers' Workshop, ea a lucrat ca editor și scriitor pentru publicații de renume precum New York Times, Vox și Jezebel. Experiența sa în jurnalism, axată pe dinamica familiei și munca în America, se reflectă în rigoarea cu care construiește lumile sale ficționale. Este autoarea romanelor America Pacifica și The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, acesta din urmă fiind recompensat cu premiul Lambda Literary.
Descriere
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK
MAJOR TV ADAPTATION IN DEVELOPMENT BY AMY ADAMS
'Calling it The Handmaid's Tale crossed with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid goes some way to describe this novel's memorable world, but it is also wholly its own' KIRKUS
'2021 is already a year that could use a little joy. Here to provide some is Outlawed . . . It's an absolute romp and contains basically everything I want in a book: witchy nuns, heists, a marriage of convenience, and a midwife trying to build a bomb out of horse dung'Vox
'Outlawed sets a high bar for the 12 months of publishing still to come . . . It upends the tropes of the traditionally macho and heteronormative genre while also being a rip-snortin' good read, too'THE WEEK (Most Anticipated Books of the Year)
'North is a riveting storyteller . . . Reader, you are in for a real treat' JENNY ZHANG
'Fans of Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they deserve' ALEXIS COE
'A thrilling tale eerily familiar but utterly transformed ... In North's galloping prose, it's a fantastically cinematic adventure that turns the sexual politics of the Old West inside out'WASHINGTON POST
'A western unlike any other, Outlawed features queer cowgirls, gender nonconforming robbers and a band of feminists that fight against the grain for autonomy, agency and the power to define their own worth'MS.
'A grand, unforgettable tale' ESMÉ WEIJUN WANG
In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.
On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife.
But her luck will not last. It is every woman's duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are hanged as witches, Ada's survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows.
She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang. Its leader, a charismatic preacher-turned-robber, known to all as The Kid, wants to create a safe haven for women outcast from society. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all.
Recenzii
I'm dazzled by this feminist Western about a world in which women's worth and right to live are determined by the vagaries of fertility. Set in an alternate past, one all too similar to our today, Outlawed is terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling. A masterpiece.
Outlawed flips the script on the beloved Western genre and gives us the iconic heroine-on-the-run we deserve. Anna North is a riveting storyteller ... Reader, you are in for a real treat!
Fans of Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they deserve in OUTLAWED, but Anna North doesn't just reimagine a damsel-in-distress as her own savior. She plays with the promise and danger of the frontier, introducing us to an America we never knew-and one we know all too well
A moving and invigorating complication of the Western, highlighting chosen family, love, and survival among outcasts in another American timeline. As she mines the genre for vital new stories, North beautifully shines a light on our real past and conveys a warning for the future.
This absorbing feminist western plucks the greatest conceits of the genre - the tension between individual freedom and society, the romance of the Old West marred by its inherent violence - and turns them on their heads . . . Anna North skewers the machismo traditionally championed by outlaws, and gives us instead resilient women who dress, rob and kill as men, but have all the burdens and forbearance of rejected women . . . written with careful prose that lingers lovingly on the details of convalescence, and luxuriating in its surroundings: the jackrabbits that hide behind jagged rocks, the smell of sage in Powder country . . . Outlawed shares concerns with The Handmaid's Tale and The Crucible, but is distinctly itself . . This is first a moving examination of how the marginalised find friendship in an indifferent world and only second, a western. John Wayne's characters had the luxury of self-imposed isolation; these outlaws must stick together or die
Descriere scurtă
The "terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling" (R.O. Kwon) adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West.
In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.
The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows.
She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all.
Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear.