Lauren Groff

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

«Årets mest omtalte roman.» The Guardian «Min favorittbok.» Barack Obama Hver historie har to sider. Hvert parforhold har to ståsted. Noen ganger er ikke nøkkelen til et lykkelig ekteskap ærlighet, men hemmeligheter. Av og til kommer det en bok med sprengkraft nok til å bli årets mest omtalte bok. Dette er en slik sjelden roman. Kritikerrost, prisbelønt og publikumsfavoritt. En historie med voldsomt driv, poetisk og vakkert skrevet. Et mesterverk som beveger, overrasker og provoser. En roman skrevet fra to synsvinkler om kjærlighet, makt og skaperkraft.

«Årets mest omtalte roman.» The Guardian «Min favorittbok.» Barack Obama Hver historie har to sider. Hvert parforhold har to ståsted. Noen ganger er ikke nøkkelen til et lykkelig ekteskap ærlighet, men hemmeligheter. Av og til kommer det en bok med sprengkraft nok til å bli årets mest omtalte bok. Dette er en slik sjelden roman. Kritikerrost, prisbelønt og publikumsfavoritt. En historie med voldsomt driv, poetisk og vakkert skrevet. Et mesterverk som beveger, overrasker og provoser. En roman skrevet fra to synsvinkler om kjærlighet, makt og skaperkraft.

An often-overlooked early work—and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—by celebrated writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, now available in this Florida Edition with a new foreword for today’s readers by Lauren Groff Originally published in 1933, South Moon Under is the first novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Set in the Big Scrub of Florida, a sparsely inhabited backwoods near Rawlings’s homestead at Cross Creek, the novel tells a multigenerational tale of the rural Lantry family and their struggle to eke out a living on the land. It depicts pioneer existence before Florida’s twentieth-century tourism and development—and displays the literary powers that would earn Rawlings the Pulitzer Prize six years later for her novel The Yearling. Introduced with a foreword by contemporary writer Lauren Groff, this edition of South Moon Under encourages today’s readers to engage with this lesser-known work. With accounts of moonshining, logging and turpentining, hunting, cattle running, foodways, and frontier justice, Rawlings made an impact on American literary culture of her time by shining a light on the people and customs of the scrub. And in this book the Florida wilderness itself emerges as an unforgettable character, a force of its own alive with mystery, richly described by Rawlings alongside unsentimental stories of survival in a bygone century.

Read alone, each story in Lauren Groff’s electric collection is an individual triumph, bold, agile, and packed with power. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region — from New England to Florida to California — these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans’ dark and light angels. “In every human there is both an animal and a god wrestling unto death,“ one character tells us. Among those we see caught in this match are a young woman suddenly responsible for her disabled sibling, a hot-tempered high school swimmer in need of an adult, a mother blinded by the loss of her family, and a banking scion endowed with a different kind of inheritance. Motivated by love, impeded by the double edges of other peoples’ good intentions, they try to do the right thing for as long as they can. Precise, surprising, and provocative, anchored by profound insight into human nature, Brawler reveals the repeated, sometimes heartbreaking turning points between love and fear, compassion and violence, reason and instinct, altruism and what it takes to survive.

New short story collection by Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies and Matrix.

En modern Robinson Kruse med fantastiskt språk Hon har aldrig kallats något annat än flickan. Men hon är den enda som lyckats ta sig levande ur fortet där pesten härjar och soldater stupat bredvid gentlemän, högburna damer och den enda som någonsin betytt något för henne. Hon springer rakt ut i den stora vildmarken som denna okända kontinent är, utan något mer än minnet av en karta hon sett över axeln på en herre. Hon har inget mer än sin livsvilja, sitt förnuft och rädsla till dess att hon lärt sig vad markerna kan ge i skydd och föda. Hon är ingen förrän hon blir en del av naturen. Den vilda flykten är inte bara en hisnande äventyrshistoria i underskön språkdräkt. Det är också en fabel om kolonialismen som ställer den nu klimataktuella frågan: Kommer vi att kunna anpassa oss tillräckligt snabbt för att rädda oss själva på den här planeten? Boken är en fristående uppföljare till Matrix, och andra boken av tre som Groff skriver för att ge nytt perspektiv på kvinnors historia. Den utspelar sig under vintern 1609-1610 i delstaten Virginia. Lauren Groff är trefaldig National Book Award-finalist och författare till flera New York Times-bästsäljare, varav Ödet och ursinnet samt Matrix översatts till svenska. Hon har vunnit The Story Prize, ABA Indies Choice Award, Franska Grand Prix de l Héroïne och Joyce Carol Oates-priset samt varit finalist i National Book Critics Circle Award och utnämnts till en av sin generations bästa författare av tidskriften Granta. Hon medverkar regelbundet i exempelvis The New Yorker och hennes böcker finns översatta till fler än 35 språk. "Fantastiskt spännande ... rusar fram med farten hos de allra bästa äventyrsberättelserna." The Telegraph (UK) "Groff har skrivit ett nytt evangelium." The Atlantic "Fint bearbetad prosa, med en poetens öga för bildspråk och en visionär förmåga som påminner om Matrix." The Guardian

V osnove etogo mnogoslojnogo romana - rasskaz o brake, prodlivshemsja pochti chetvert veka. Istorija nachinaetsja s medovogo mesjatsa. Matilda i Lotto molody, krasivy, vljubleny. Lotto - bogatyj naslednik, oba oni tolko chto okonchili universitet, pered nimi samye raduzhnye perspektivy. Odnako trudnosti nachinajutsja srazu zhe. Mat Lotto otkazyvaetsja prinjat ego zhenu i lishaet syna soderzhanija. Projdet nemalo let, prezhde chem Lotto najdet svoe istinnoe prizvanie. A chto na samom dele proiskhodilo za kulisami etogo braka chitatel budet uznavat postepenno, i kazhdyj novyj povorot sjuzheta - vse bolee zakhvatyvajuschij. Perevod s anglijskogo: Evelina Melenevskaja

Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever. In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments--such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not--Woolf analyzes the many ways in which women have been held back throughout history and still are in her own time. First published in 1929, A Room of One's Own has been a towering and inspirational statement of feminist principles for nearly a century--and remains relevant now, at a time of growing awareness of the kind of social injustices that she decried.

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that “buzz with their own strange logic.” A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session. Daring and resonant, the stories in this volume invite in Groff “a feeling that both the author and I were simultaneously discovering something together.”The Best American Short Stories 2024 includes JAMEL BRINKLEY • ALEXANDRA CHANG • LAURIE COLWIN • MOLLY DEKTAR • TAISIA KITAISKAIA • DANIEL MASON • JIM SHEPARD • AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI • PAUL YOON • and others

A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor."There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now," proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that "buzz with their own strange logic." A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session. Daring and resonant, the stories in this volume invite in Groff "a feeling that both the author and I were simultaneously discovering something together."The Best American Short Stories 2024 includes JAMEL BRINKLEY - ALEXANDRA CHANG - LAURIE COLWIN - MOLLY DEKTAR - TAISIA KITAISKAIA - DANIEL MASON - JIM SHEPARD - AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI - PAUL YOON - and others

En ung jente på flukt i skogen, forfulgt av jegere, ulver og lunefulle guder. Hun eier ingenting, annet enn sin egen snarrådighet, et par verdiløse gjenstander og fornemmelsen som brenner i henne av at verden er mye, mye større. Jenta løper gjennom et nyfødt Amerika, gjennom nybyggertro, gresk mytologi og mørke eventyr. Og gjennom århundrer med kvinneliv, når forfatteren lar henne tenke at «til og med en god mann er mer dødelig enn den farligste bjørn». Det er en fabulerende og politisk, uhyggelig og oppslukende ferd. Som Guardians begeistrede kritiker skrev, Lauren Groff har ikke gått seg vill i skogen, hun vet nøyaktig hvor hun skal.«En rå og hjerteskjærende bok du må lese. Groff får leseren til å grøsse i møte med kampen om overlevelse i villmarken. (...) Groff gir oss en ferd med mål og mening, full av sjeleransakelse og dyp tragedie, ispedd politikk og religion av en slik art at man rett og slett blir oppslukt. Og språket i denne romanen er bare til å juble over i ren glede. Groff formulerer seg på denne litt underfundige måten som gjør at man stadig trekkes videre og gjør en så nysgjerrig på å lese bare litt til. (...) «Den vide villmark» er en bok som jeg kan anbefale på det varmeste. Selv gleder jeg meg alt til å se hva forfatteren byr på i neste omgang.» Nancy Øvrehus, Stavanger Aftenblad (Terningkast 5)

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Exhilarating' GUARDIAN'Her writing has a timeless quality' THE TIMES'[Has] a visionary quality' OBSERVERA profound and explosive novel about a spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to surviveA servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief of everything that her own civilization has taught her.The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how -and if - we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.

On a Victorian pleasure cruise, a chance encounter opens the floodgates to regret, desire, and possibility in this "little period gem of feeling and clarity" (The Guardian). It is 1851, only three years since Europe was convulsed by workers' revolutions, but already English tourists are returning to the Continent, taking the waters at Baden Baden, then traveling by paddle steamer down the Rhine valley, celebrated for its romantic vistas. Among the sightseers are the pious Reverend Charles Morrison, his wife and daughter, and his maiden sister, Charlotte, a seemingly meek middle-aged woman who's spent her life attending to the needs of others. Like the river upon which they're traveling, however, Charlotte contains hidden depths. A chance encounter with a fellow passenger in Coblenz sparks a Damascene moment, unleashing in her a sudden and violent awakening of memory, fear, and sexual desire. As the travelers are swept onward to Cologne, Charlotte wrestles with what Lauren Groff in her foreword to this new edition describes as "a subtle and total derangement of understanding," eventually surging toward a moment of crisis. Rhine Journey is "a patient and cunning representation of the intimacies of a repressed and wasted life" (London Review of Books) by a novelist "incapable of writing a bad or inelegant sentence" (Hudson Review).

En ung kvindes kamp for at overleve i vildmarken. En tjenestepige flygter fra en puritansk nybyggerkoloni i 1600-tallets Nordamerika og ud i vildmarken på egen hånd. Hun har ikke andet med sig end sin forstand, nogle få ejendele og en religiøs gnist, der brænder i hende. Det, hun møder i vildmarkens ingenmandsland, overgår alle hendes forestillinger og vil bøje hendes tro på alt det, civilisationen har lært hende. Vildmark er en nervepirrende flugtfortælling af en stor stemme i amerikansk litteratur. Det er en storslået og eventyrlig fortælling om mødet med vældig natur og en roman om at finde nye måder at leve på i en verden underlagt kolonialistisk magt. Lauren Groff skriver krystalklart om en enkelt kvindes skæbne på et særligt punkt i historien, som trækker tråde til vores egen tid. „Lauren Groff har genopfundet eventyrromanen.“ – Los Angeles Times