"THE ORCHARDIST" to opowieść o stoickim życiu, które na północno-zachodnim wybrzeżu Pacyfiku prowadzi Talmadge. Pewnego dnia dwie młode dziewcznyny szukają schronienia na jego ziemii...
Set in the Pacific Northwest during the early twentieth century, this mesmerizing debut novel tells the story of Talmadge, a stoic man who tends his fruit trees while avoiding human company. When two young girls seek shelter on his land, events unfold with heartstopping, lyric power.
“[A] mysterious, compelling, elemental novel….In The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin shows us what’s unknowable.”
— Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of National Book Award finalist, American Salvage
“Within this world are compelling characters and their equally compelling stories. The Orchardist is an outstanding debut.”
— Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena and The Cove
“Coplin is a masterful writer, the teller of an epic, unvarnished tale that sits comfortably with other novels in the tradition of great American storytelling.”
— Wally Lamb, New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed
At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison. In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions.
Book Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the quiet, beating heart of the land he cultivates. One day, two teenage girls appear and steal his fruit from the market; they later return to the outskirts of his orchard to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and very pregnant, the girls take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. Just as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns, and the shattering tragedy that follows will set Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect but also to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.
Transcribing America as it once was before railways and roads connected its corners, Amanda Coplin weaves a tapestry of solitary souls who come together in the wake of unspeakable cruelty and misfortune. She writes with breathtaking precision and empathy, and in The Orchardist she crafts an astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in.
Book of the Week: The Orchardist - Oprah Winfrey blog
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Former New York Times health columnist Melanie Warner combines deep investigatory reporting, culinary history, and cultural analysis, to find out how we got here and what it is we're really eating...
Intrepid journalist Melanie Warner writes a fascinating, cutting-edge exploration of the science and history of processed food and shows how technology transformed wholesome meals into an extruded, hydrolyzed, textured, gun-puffed product that doesn't quite resemble food, taking us inside the labs and ultra-modern facilities that churn out the cheapest, most abundant, most addictive, and most nutritionally deficient food in the world.
From breakfast cereal to frozen pizza to nutrition bars, processed foods are a fundamental part of our diet, accounting for 65% of Americans’ yearly calories. Over the past century, technology has transformed the average meal into a chemical-laden smorgasbord of manipulated food products that bear little resemblance to what our grandparents ate.
Despite the growing presence of farmers' markets and organic offerings, food additives and chemical preservatives are nearly impossible to avoid, and even the most ostensibly healthy foods contain multisyllabic ingredients with nearly untraceable origins.
The far-reaching implications of the industrialization of the food supply that privileges cheap, plentiful, and fast food have been well documented. They are dire. But how did we ever reach the point where "pink slime" is an acceptable food product? Is anybody regulating what makes it into our food? What, after all, is actually safe to eat?
Former New York Times health columnist Melanie Warner combines deep investigatory reporting, culinary history, and cultural analysis, to find out how we got here and what it is we're really eating. Vividly written and meticulously researched, PANDORA’S LUNCHBOX blows the lid off the largely undocumented world of processed foods and food manipulation. From the vitamin "enrichments" to our fortified cereals and bread, to the soy mixtures that bolster chicken (and often outweigh the actual chicken included), Warner lays bare the dubious nutritional value and misleading labels of chemically-treated foods, as well as the potential price we--and our children--may pay.
* CHARTS NEW GROUND: Building on the foundation of Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman, who have established their careers on advocating for the merits of eating real food, Warner is the first writer to fully lay bare how food processing actually works. She exposes the nutrient-stripping mechanical processes and harmful chemical additives that make it into even foods we think of as "healthy". PANDORA’S LUNCHBOX pushes the conversation beyond nutrition to expose the larger systemic food processing practices that impact our diet and overall health.
* BLOCKBUSTER CATEGORY: In the tradition of Fast Food Nation, The End of Overeating and The Omnivore's Dilemma, PANDORA’S LUNCHBOX unearths the truth behind what really goes into our food.
* IMPORTANT, STAGGERING CONCLUSIONS FOR PARENTS: Melanie has spent years researching and writing about the impact of food processing. Her journey began as a mother: she was concerned about feeding her kids the cheese singles that remained more or less intact after languishing in her refrigerator for two years. What are we feeding our kids? Her conclusions will be of immense interest to parents and change the way they think about packing their children's lunchboxes.
* VIVID FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT FROM AN ACCOMPLISHED JOURNALIST: Former New York Times health columnist Melanie Warner conducts exclusive interviews and visits to food research centers, chemical plants, and farms around the world, providing an eye-opening--and sometimes disturbing--account of the sights, scents, tastes and textures of processed food. She reaches startling conclusions about the profound health implications--and lack of regulation behind--the packaged foods we eat on a daily basis.
* PROFOUND HEALTH IMPLICATIONS: The book offers a rare glimpse inside the monumentally complex edifice of our food manufacturing industry and presents a case for why understanding the implications of our high-tech, Byzantine system of food processing is of profound importance to an overweight and chronically ill population.
* EVEN SO-CALLED HEALTHY FOODS ARE PROCESSED: Warner goes beyond McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets and the food that most readers know is bad for us, and she lays bare the invisible processing that goes into even whole grain cereal and "all-natural" energy bars. David Kessler demystified the Cinnabon in THE END OF OVEREATING. In PANDORA'S LUNCHBOX, Warner punctures the assumptions and biases associated with foods that line the aisles of Whole Foods. She analyzes the Subway sandwich that Men's Health deemed the "healthiest sandwich in America," for example, and it contains hundreds of ingredients that would be hard to construe as healthy.
* THE SCARY TRUTH ABOUT WHAT WE'RE REALLY EATING: Warner gives readers background on why soy is such a prevalent ingredient in processed foods and discusses some of the frightening health implications of eating as much soy as we do. Anyone who reads this book will look twice at the label and think twice before eating a preservative-laden snack.
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Zapraszamy do zamawiania materiałów recenzenckich książki "SONG FOR AN APPROACHING STORM", autorstwa P. F. Idlinga, autora "USMIECH POL-POTA", który znalazł się w finale Nagrody im. Kapuścińskiego w 2011 roku.
SONG FOR AN APPROACHING STORM is Peter’s long awaited first novel and tells the unique story of a love triangle involving the young Pol Pot in the mid 1950’s, as Cambodia stands on the brink of dramatic change after gaining its independence.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Cambodia, 1955. The country is on the brink of major change, with the first democratic elections just around the corner. In the midst of the frenzy, we meet Sar—a quiet, likeable man in his early thirties who is campaigning for the opposition, but secretly working for an Communist takeover. Many years, he will become known to the world as Pol Pot.
Now, Sar is thinking about Somaly, the woman he is engaged to be married to and wants to build a life with. The outcome of the election will determine whether they have a future together. With his personal and political life at stake, Sar has everything to lose when his political rival, vice premier Sary, also notices the beautiful Somaly, and takes up the struggle for her affection. And of course Somaly—young, bored, beautiful—has an agenda of her own.
Over the course of thirty days, and against the backdrop of political power games, a love triangle unfolds in the summer heat, in an atmosphere tense with ambition.
SWEDISH PRESS FOR PETER FRÖBERG IDLING »SONG FOR AN APPROACHING STORM«:
»I wonder if I’ve ever read a debut novel as good as Song for an Approaching Storm … Strong words, but what to do when your limbs are trembling with the touch of poetry … What makes this such a masterpiece is that it yet again shows fiction’s capacity as a source of knowledge … It’s hot, sticky as in the fiction of Marguerite Duras and Graham Greene, two odd voices that echo faintly here … The tension between power and Eros is hard as steel in Fröberg Idling’s brilliant novel.«
SR KULTURNYTT
»This is an impressive work of fiction, not just about a horrendous time but also about man’s ability to be both victim and executioner in one lifetime. He writes so damn well, Peter Fröberg Idling. I’m deeply moved and impressed.«
EXPRESSEN
»A hundred pages into the novel I think: but this is in the James Ellroy and Mario Vargas Llosa department! Peter Fröberg Idling’s political thriller Song for an Approaching Storm is the same kind of feverish, sweat-stained fiction/nonfiction … This is a fully developed piece and cannot be but one of the finest literary debuts in a few decades, at least. Big words, I know, but I stand by them.«
BORÅS TIDNING
»Peter Fröberg Idling really knows something about showing not telling … This certainly is a textured and rich first novel.«
NATUR & KULTUR FOREIGN RIGHTS
»Several times I come to think of Lawrence Durrell’s majestic Alexandria Quartet, which in a similar prismatic manner follows four people in a bustling postcolonial city. I am ready to think that Peter Fröberg Idling would be able to focus on any given spot in history and, through his ability to show, make it feel as startling and alive as he does here.«
DAGENS NYHETER
»At the end of the book, Fröberg Idling thanks his colleague Steve Sem Sandberg. But there’s something about the tone and the beauty of the writing that makes is even more akin to Per Olov Enquist’s documentary novels … Peter Fröberg Idling has written an exciting and thought-provoking novel. I appoint it this year’s best, but actually feel that this time frame is much too short.«
NORRKÖPINGS TIDNINGARNATUR & KULTUR FOREIGN RIGHTS
»A startlingly well wrought and well written novel. For a literary fiction debut it is very impressive.«
UPSALA NYA TIDNING
»This Cambodian triptych delineates an epoch with vibrating precision. Song for an Approaching Storm is an exquisite portrayal of complex emotion, of how people are shaped and coerced by their context. Overwhelming.«
ARBETARBLADET
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Zapraszamy do zamawiania materiałów recenzenckich związanych z III tomem historycznej trylogii rodzinnej Agnety Pleijel. Akcja rozgrywa się w XIX w. i porusza m.in. kwestie związane z wolnością i emancypacją kobiet.
The last part of Agneta Pleijel’s historical family trilogy is a novel about a brother and sister who are very close, but who live under completely different conditions. Their father is a well known singer at the Opera in Stockholm, their mother is the daughter of a celebrated actor. The parents have high musical expectations on their first born son, Albert. But it turns out that he is deaf from birth. His sister, Helena, is born not long thereafter and she has everything the boy lacks: hearing, singing-voice and musicality. She becomes a superb singer but has to struggle with her father’s opinion that women shall not perform on stage. The book takes place during the 19th century as the demand on individual freedom and female emancipation were growing stronger.
Sister and Brother is the third part of a family story that began with The Queen’s Surgeon (2006) and The King’s Actor (2007), for which Agneta Pleijel has found inspiration in documents, letters and the stories of her own family.
"Agneta Pleijel is a great storyteller with a clear, beautiful language." Gun Zanton-Ericsson, Östgöta Correspondenten
"Once again, Pleijel has demonstrated how adeptly, informatively and sensitively she can read into the flow of ideas, the climate and history of thought, and, quite rightly, sheds light on a cultural heritage that is little known outside of specialist circles." Eva Ström, Sydsvenska Dagbladet
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Epicki debiut Marguliesa to powieść oparta na życiu 19-wiecznej prostytutki. Autor zabiera nas w świat moralnego upadku i materialnego wzrostu, które towarzyszyły czasom kalifornijskiej gorączki złota.
Phillip Margulies's epic debut BELLE CORA, based loosely on the life of the 19th-century prostitute of the same name, written in the form of a memoir by San Francisco's most powerful dowager (who has long-hidden her scandalous past), telling the story of her moral fall and material rise over the course of the century, carrying her from the farms, mills, drawing rooms (and bedrooms) of New York to the heart of the California gold rush...
Upon her death in 1919, Mrs. Francis Anderson, a wealthy and powerful dowager in San Francisco society, leaves behind a scandalous memoir revealing her former life as a prostitute and madame. So begins Phillip Margulies's delicious debut, BELLE CORA, framed as Belle's confessions, available for the first time in unabridged form. Born Arabella Goodwin to a rich and respected abolitionist family in New York City, she is suddenly orphaned at age nine and shipped off with her beloved youngest brother, Lewis, to live with her aunt and uncle on their hardscrabble farm. When her nemesis—her cousin Agnes—engineers Belle's downfall, Belle returns to the city of her youth where she puts her beauty and good-breeding to use, garnering the power and wealth to reclaim what has been taken from her and proving herself a distinctly American heroine: assertive, loyal, vengeful, and unapologetic.
Erudite and entertaining, BELLE CORA is a sweeping, female bildungsroman, a modern take on the tradition of Moll Flanders and Fanny Hill, and a (slightly dirty) Cinderella story narrated by a woman whose moral fall and material rise unmoor her from the conventional morality of her time. Originally the plan was for Doubleday to publish in 2 volumes. They are now publishing in 1. However, keep that in mind if publishers have their concerns about length – we would be open to the conversation of having this publish in 2 volumes internationally.
Phillip Margulies is the author of many published books on science, politics and history for a young adult audience. He has won two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships.
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