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Unsheltered: A Novel de Barbara Kingsolver

Unsheltered: A Novel

Autor Barbara Kingsolver
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2018

Notăm cu interes cum Barbara Kingsolver utilizează convențiile ficțiunii contemporane nu doar pentru a descrie o criză domestică, ci pentru a chestiona însăși ideea de stabilitate într-o lume în schimbare. Unsheltered subversează structura liniară, propunând un dialog între două epoci care se oglindesc prin nesiguranță: prezentul marcat de declin economic și secolul al XIX-lea, zdruncinat de teoriile lui Darwin. Remarcăm finețea cu care autoarea leagă destinele personajelor de la colțul străzilor Sixth și Plum, sugerând că, deși secolele se schimbă, vulnerabilitatea umană în fața prăbușirii sistemelor rămâne constantă.

Subliniem modul în care proza sa, deși densă și încărcată de dileme etice, păstrează o claritate biologică — o moștenire a formării academice a autoarei. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Unsettled Ground de Claire Fuller, prin explorarea vieților de la periferia societății și a fragilității adăpostului, deși Kingsolver marchează o voce proprie prin dimensiunea politică și istorică mult mai amplă. Această lucrare se simte ca o evoluție firească de la temele din Flight Behavior sau The Poisonwood Bible, unde individul este întotdeauna plasat în centrul unor forțe macroscopice — fie ele ecologice, religioase sau economice. Unsheltered nu oferă soluții facile, ci documentează cu empatie procesul de a rămâne integru atunci când fundațiile, atât fizice, cât și ideologice, încep să crape.

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ISBN-13: 9780062870179
ISBN-10: 0062870173
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper

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Această carte este o recomandare esențială pentru cititorii care caută profunzime intelectuală și o analiză lucidă a societății moderne. Kingsolver oferă o perspectivă reconfortantă asupra rezilienței, demonstrând că incertitudinea nu este un fenomen nou. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere mai bogată a modului în care istoria se repetă și a forței pe care o putem găsi în compasiune atunci când vechile structuri de sprijin dispar.

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Barbara Kingsolver (n. 1955) este o figură centrală a literaturii americane contemporane, recunoscută pentru modul în care îmbină rigoarea științifică — fiind licențiată în biologie — cu un angajament profund față de justiția socială. Crescută în Kentucky, cu o scurtă perioadă petrecută în Congo, ea explorează frecvent intersecția dintre comunitate și mediu. Opera sa, care include titluri premiate precum The Lacuna și Demon Copperhead, i-a adus distincții prestigioase precum National Humanities Medal și Orange Prize. Kingsolver este cunoscută pentru capacitatea de a transforma teme complexe în narațiuni umane vibrante, fiind nominalizată la premiul Pulitzer.

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New York Timesbestseller
An NPR pick for Best Books of 2018
An O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Book of 2018
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2018
One of Christian Science Monitor's best fiction reads of 2018
One of Newsweek's Best Books of the year
TheNew York Timesbestselling author ofFlight Behavior, The Lacuna,andThe Poisonwood Bibleand recipient of numerous literary awards—including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize—returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval.
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life,a woman asks,and end up destitute?Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family’s one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own.
In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks,How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it?A science teacher with a passion for honest investigation, Thatcher Greenwood finds himself under siege: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just published by Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town’s powerful men.
Unshelteredis the compulsively readable story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters paint a startlingly relevant portrait of life in precarious times when the foundations of the past have failed to prepare us for the future.

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“Kingsolver’s dual narrative works beautifully. By giving us a family and a world teetering on the brink in 2016, and conveying a different but connected type of 19th-century teetering, Kingsolver creates a sense…that as humans we’re inevitably connected through the possibility of collapse, whether it’s the collapse of our houses, our bodies, logic, the social order or earth itself…In this engaged and absorbing novel, the two narratives reflect each other, reminding us of the dependability and adaptiveness of our drive toward survival.”
“Utterly captivating…Keenly observed and thought-provoking…Kingsolver’s much-demonstrated talent for developing truly believable characters is, once again, on full display…Perhaps, more importantly, it’s the characters’ hardscrabble circumstances—especially in the modern story—that resonate right down to the bone.”
“Kingsolver brilliantly captures both the price of profound change and how it can pave the way not only for future generations, but also for a radiant, unexpected expansion of the heart.”
“I felt almost bereft closing the cover on this book… With a spellbinding narrative and its exquisitely accurate evocation of two eras, Barbara Kingsolver’s novel is itself a shelter of sorts. One doesn’t want to leave it.”
“Barbara Kingsolver’s latest novel,Unsheltered, will make you weep…But Kingsolver is also downright hilarious…Unshelteredis also a sociopolitical novel tackling real-world issues, especially how we humans navigate profound changes that threaten to unmoor us.”
“Barbara Kingsolver does something amazing in her new novel…Uncovering and appreciating the connections between the two stories, historical and contemporary, is the best reason to read the book…Both stories are compelling as Thatcher and Willa lead their families during dangerously uncertain times.”                         
“UNSHELTERED’s title suggests a roof gone missing. But it’s also a resonant call to be more alert to our social predicaments, to ‘stand in the clear light of day.’”
“Unshelteredis a skillful blend of fact and fiction told in alternating chapters... It’s a winner all the way…an absolute giant of a book.”     
“Nuanced and convincing…Engrossing.”
“Sophisticated storytelling, compelling characters and sharp humor…Kingsolver is a writer who can help us understand and navigate the chaos of these times.”
“Kingsolver’s meticulously observed, elegantly structured novel unites social commentary with gripping storytelling…Containing both a rich story and a provocative depiction of times that shake the shelter of familiar beliefs, this novel shows Kingsolver at the top of her game.”
“As always, Kingsolver gives readers plenty to think about. Her warm humanism coupled with an unabashed point of view make her a fine 21st-century exponent of the honorable tradition of politically engaged fiction.”
“Exceptionally involving and rewarding…There is much to delight in and think about while reveling in Kingsolver’s vital characters, quicksilver dialogue, intimate moments, dramatic showdowns, and lushly realized milieus…An enveloping, tender, witty, and awakening novel of love and trauma, family and survival, moral dilemmas and intellectual challenges…”
 “Riveting…A tour de force of fiction…about this dynamic conflict between individual expression and communal belonging...One of the most magical parts of UNSHELTERED is how Kingsolver skillfully blends her two narratives into one unified tale, with past and present repeatedly mirroring each other.”                   
“A return to the more ambitious, grand scale of novels such asThe LacunaandThe Poisonwood Bible…A lively and vividly peopled novel of ideas…Clear throughout the novel is a tension between self-reliance and interdependence.”

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Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them.

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.