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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYThe critically acclaimed debut from the National Book Award-winning author of Blackouts.In this award-winning, groundbreaking novel, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become."A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver's or Jeffrey Eugenides's voice did when we first heard it."--The Washington PostThree brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican, she's white--and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another.From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful."We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It's heartbreaking. It's beautiful. It resembles no other book I've read."--Michael Cunningham"A fiery ode to boyhood . . . A welterweight champ of a book."--NPR, Weekend Edition

Winner of the National Book AwardWinner of the California Book AwardWinner of Tournament of Books Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan's tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures? A book about storytelling--its legacies, dangers, delights, and potential for change--and a bold exploration of form, art, and love, Justin Torres's Blackouts uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative. A marvel of creative imagination, it draws on testimony, photographs, illustrations, and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made--a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth. A reclamation of ransacked history, a celebration of defiance, and a transformative encounter, Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BY JEREMIAH ZAGAR "A novel so honest, poetic, and tough that it makes you reexamine what it means to love and to hurt." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "The communal howl of three young brothers sustains this sprint of a novel . . . A kind of incantation." -- The New Yorker This "fiery ode to boyhood" (Scott Simon, NPR) tracks three brothers as they tear their way through childhood, growing up in the shadow of Paps and Ma and learning a kind of love that is serious, dangerous, unshakeable, glorious. A stunning exploration of how we are formed by our earliest bonds, We the Animals bears witness to Justin Torres's serious talent and heralds him as a "brilliant, ferocious new voice" (Michael Cunningham). "A miracle in concentrated pages, you are going to read it again and again." -- Dorothy Allison "Rumbles with lyric dynamite . . . Torres is a savage new talent." -- Benjamin Percy, Esquire

Three brothers tear their way through childhood - smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn - he's Puerto Rican, she's white. Barely out of childhood themselves, their love is a serious, dangerous thing. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to forge his own way in the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and incredibly powerful.

Three brothers tear their way through childhood - smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn - he's Puerto Rican, she's white. Barely out of childhood themselves, their love is a serious, dangerous thing. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to forge his own way in the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and incredibly powerful.

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with queer histories and their place within them, from the critically acclaimed author of We the Animals Juan Gay is on his deathbed. He has decided to spend his last days in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert, which was an asylum in another lifetime. There, a young man tends to this dying soul - someone who Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since. As the end approaches, the two trade stories - resurrecting lost loves, lives, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of pathology and oppression. Charged with sifting through Juan's belongings, our narrator uncovers a copy of Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, its pages blacked out, censored, reduced down to poetic dispatches. And, as he sifts through the manuscript, another story is told: that of Jan Gay - a radical, queer anthropologist - whose ground-breaking work was co-opted, and stifled, by the committee she served. Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure, blending fact with fiction - drawing from historical records, screenplays, testimony and image - to force us to look again at the world we have inherited and the narratives we have received.

Juan Gay lies dying in a room in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him - someone whom Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since. As the end approaches, the two trade stories - resurrecting lost loves, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of sexuality, pathology and oppression. And, through their conversations, another story is told: that of the radical queer anthropologist Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was co-opted, and stifled, by the committee she served. Blending fact with fiction, and drawing on oral histories and historical records, screenplay, testimony and image, Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure - on the ways in which stories sustain histories.

Tre brødre river seg vei gjennom barndommen - moser hverandre med tomater, lager drager av søppel, gjemmer seg når foreldrene slåss, lister seg rundt i huset mens mor sover nattevakten av seg. Pappa og mamma er fra Brooklyn – han er puertoricaner, hun hvit – de er begge bare så vidt voksne selv, og deres kjærlighet er en alvorlig, farlig sak. Livet i familien er vilt og oppslukende, fullt av kaos og følelser og lykksaligheten av å høre helt og holdent til hverandre. Vi dyra gjenoppdager den gode oppvekstromanen på en overraskende sterk måte: Fra den intense familietilhørigheten barnet opplever, til den dyptpløyende fremmedgjortheten idet han begynner å bane seg sin egen vei i verden. I denne banebrytende debutromanen kaster Justin Torres oss ut i en families kaotiske hjerte, de intense båndene mellom tre brødre, og den mytiske effekten av denne voldsomme kjærligheten på hvem vi må bli som mennesker. "...)gjør boka nærmest et uutslettelig inntrykk på leseren."Frode Hermandrud, Oppland Arbeiderblad (terning 5)"Det er en historie om skrudd oppvekst og kjærlighet på ville veger det handler om. Men det er gjort med en glød og intensitet i framstillingen som vanskelig lar en leser slippe unna, selv når galskapen akselererer Geir Vestad, Hamar Arbeiderblad "Vi dyra er en mørk og gripende roman om oppvekst med uforutsigbarhet, vold og kjærlighet(...)sterk og stilsikker roman, en barndom overbevisende beskrevet fra barnas ståsted."Stine Frimann, Vårt Land Rå, vakker og enestående "Vi dyra er en enestående debut, en vakker page-turner som overbeviser og overrasker."Ida Vågsether, Stavanger Aftenblad Glitrende og brutal oppvekstroman fra forfatter av format, i god norsk oversettelse "Denne debutromanen kan varsle et forfatterskap av format, men står ogsa fjellstøtt pa egne ben (...). Hver tekst er som en knyttneve som apner seg forsiktig. Jeg kan nok trygt si pa vegne av flere: Vi vil ha mer" Susanne Hedemann Hiorth, Dagens Næringsliv”Hjerteskjærende” Sunday Times "Skremmende og gnistrende" Esquire "Et fantastisk hyl av en oppvekstskildring som vil sluke ditt hjerte.” Vanity Fair "Uforglemmelig" New York Times"Buldrer med lyrisk dynamitt … Torres er et voldsomt nytt talent.”Esquire"Denne oppvekstromanen svinger mellom vold og hengivenhet, patos og humor, og berikes av en frisk og overdådig språkstil.” Observer

Uno de los mejores libros del Siglo XXI seg n el New York Times Un debut aclamado por la cr tica americana. La vida de la familia Torres es un caos. El padre, puertorrique o «Paps , y la madre, nacida en Brooklyn «Ma , deciden tener tres hijos pese a su precaria situaci n laboral. Les dar n una educaci n peculiar que se desarrollar entre trabajos basura, problemas en el barrio y an cdotas familiares ntimas y divertidas. En ese marco, solo el cari o y el amor entre ellos har n posible que sobrevivan en esa jungla que es la ciudad. Pero la principal jungla de la historia es la de la infancia, porque los tres ni os, los verdaderos protagonistas de la novela, se comportar n como peque os animales en continuo aprendizaje: travesuras, extra as conversaciones con los adultos, juegos, inocencia y destellos de esa inteligencia tan l cida y en ocasiones impropia de los ni os peque os. El componente autobiogr fico hace a n m s interesante este relato, pues retrata a la perfecci n la vida en las afueras de Nueva York a finales de los ochenta y las oportunidades que esta ciudad ofrec a a los habitantes del colectivo latino. Este libro presenta un universo en el que el lector se siente c modo, ya que es cercano y est cargado de im genes de gran belleza y lirismo, y consigue hablar del amor y del cari o en la familia sin utilizar el discurso cursi o manido al que estamos acostumbrados. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century The critically acclaimed debut from the National Book Award-winning author of Blackouts. In this award-winning, groundbreaking novel, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one family, the intense bonds of three brothers, and the mythic effects of this fierce love on the people we must become. "A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver's or Jeffrey Eugenides's voice did when we first heard it."--The Washington Post Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican, she's white--and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to see the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and punch-in-the-stomach powerful. "We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It's heartbreaking. It's beautiful. It resembles no other book I've read."--Michael Cunningham "A fiery ode to boyhood . . . A welterweight champ of a book."--NPR, Weekend Edition

Finalista del Premio Lambda en Ficci n Gay 2024 Uno de los mejores libros de Amazon de 2024 hasta ahora Galardonada con el National Book Award 2023, una novela deslumbrante que desentierra un episodio fundacional de la comunidad queer y explora los or genes de su patologizaci n. «Se difuminan los l mites de la Historia, la autobiograf a y la ficci n con el arte. Hermoso . -Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal En un remoto asilo en el desierto, un hombre joven acompa a a un moribundo. Han pasado diez a os desde que coincidieran brevemente en una instituci n psiqui trica. Ahora, el que est punto de morir le pide al otro que termine el proyecto al que ha dedicado su vida: la reconstrucci n de la singular historia de Jan Gay. Esta investigadora, escritora y activista queer de principios del siglo XX dedic su vida a documentar las vidas lesbianas y la cultura nudista en Estados Unidos y Europa, y sin embargo su trabajo fue el origen de un manual sobre la homosexualidad como perversi n titulado Desviaciones sexuales: un estudio de los patrones homosexuales. La lectura de las misteriosas p ginas tachadas de dicho manual infame acompa ar las vigilias diurnas que siguen a las calurosas noches de insomnio de aquellos dos hombres. En las horas de oscuridad mantendr n una larga conversaci n sobre sus vidas y las de Jan Gay y los sujetos que participaron en la truncada investigaci n. En este atmosf rico relato de amor, que es a la vez un collage documental y un homenaje a Pedro P ramo y El beso de la mujer ara a, Justin Torres desentierra un episodio borrado de la historia estadounidense para explorar los or genes de la patologizaci n de la comunidad queer; una bella e imaginativa novela que ha sido merecedora del National Book Award. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Amazon Best Books of 2024 So Far Finalist of the Lambda Award in Gay Fiction 2024Winner of the National Book Award Winner of the California Book Award Winner of Tournament of Books Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book―Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns―and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan's tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures? A book about storytelling―its legacies, dangers, delights, and potential for change―and a bold exploration of form, art, and love, Justin Torres's Blackouts uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative. A marvel of creative imagination, it draws on testimony, photographs, illustrations, and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made―a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth. A reclamation of ransacked history, a celebration of defiance, and a transformative encounter, Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light.