Lauren Groff

Passionerat, vackert och fullständigt uppslukande Ödet och ursinnet är först hans, och sedan hennes, version av den storslagna kärlekssagan. Lotto och Mathilde gifter sig bara två veckor efter att ha fallit för varandra. De är unga, vackra och ämnade för storslagenhet. I deras bohemiska New York-lägenhet surrar vännerna som en bikupa av förväntningar på att Lotto ska slå igenom som skådespelare. Men åren går, och Mathilde försörjer dem, till dess att lyckan väl vänder för Lotto. Förenade av en glödande passion driver de varandra genom livet i tron om att de är oskiljaktiga. Men den perfekta fasaden rämnar. Ursinnet kommer i kapp ödet och Lotto förstår inte hur fel han haft förrän det är för sent. ÖDET OCH URSINNET blev Lauren Groffs stora genombrott. Barack Obama utnämnde boken till årets favorit och den blev en omedelbar New York Times-bästsäljare som nu översatts till ett tjugotal språk. Skriven på Groffs karaktäristiska språk är det en svindlande läsupplevelse som tar andan ur sina läsare från första till sista sidan. Boken har varit finalist till såväl National Book Award, som till National Book Critics Circle Prize och till Kirkus Prize samt vunnit Madame Figaro Grand Prix le l Héroïne och American Booksellers Association Award En uttryckligen ambitiös roman, som levererar komedi, tragedi, välplacerade insikter och genomgående glittrar av ren briljans. The New York TimesSkrämmande bra. Träffsäker och lyrisk, och lika världsligt som episkt omvälvande. The New YorkerRent förtrollande ... Groff sliter itu, ett tillsynes perfekt, äktenskap i sömmarna. Vanity FairUtmanande och vacker ... Inte bara ljuvligt voyeuristisk utan också intelligent. LA TimesEn vilt upphetsande och rent hjärtskärande resa genom ett par decenniers fabelliknande äktenskap. San Francisco ChronicleEn fyllig och finurlig roman ... Groff är en fantastiskt inlevelsefull författare. Entertainment WeeklyBerättelsen om ett 25-årigt äktenskap kan se väldigt annorlunda ut när den berättas från båda sidor av sängen. CosmopolitanÅterger på ett rent majestätiskt vis även vardagens mest mondäna ögonblick ... Groffs författarskap är såväl fyndigt som ögonöppnande. USA TodayEtt av nöjena med att läsa Groff är hennes oförutsägbarhet: hon kan när som helst genomskjuta sin berättarröst, och förvandla meningarna till smärre orkaner. The New York Times Boken är en Master Class i bästa meningsbyggnad ... Så bra är den. Så vacker. Ibland även så överväldigande. NPR Mening efter mening är den här romanen, precis som hennes andra, ett fullblod. Utifrån berättarknepen även en trojansk häst. TIME

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS AN OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR'Gorgeous, sensual, addictive' SARA COLLINS 'Brightly lit' NAOMI ALDERMAN Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court and sent to Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey.Lauren Groff's modern masterpiece is about the establishment of a female utopia. 'A propulsive, captivating read' BRIT BENNETT 'Fascinating, beguiling, vivid' MARIAN KEYES 'A dazzlingly clever tale' THE TIMES 'A thrillingly vivid, adventurous story about women and power that will blow readers' minds. Left me gasping' EMMA DONOGHUE

Matrix er en sanselig og visionær roman fra et middelalderkloster og en fortælling om skaberkraft, begær og kvindelige fællesskaber. Den prisbelønnede forfatter Lauren Groff tegner et lyslevende og dybt originalt portræt af en for længst glemt historisk kvindeskikkelse, Marie de France.Marie de France er af adelsslægt, men egner sig hverken til hofliv eller ægteskab: Hun er for høj, for virkelysten og ikke tilstrækkeligt køn. Som syttenårig sendes Marie væk fra dronning Aliénor af Aquitaines hof til et ludfattigt kloster i England. Her skal hun som priorinde lede klosteret.Klosterets nonner er plaget af sult og sygdom, men Marie er fast besluttet på at udstikke en ny og modig kurs for de kvinder, hun nu skal lede og beskytte. Med sin handlekraft får Marie sat skik på klosteret og sætter sig i respekt i lokalområdet. På magtfuld vis formår hun at skabe rammerne om et blomstrende, driftigt og kreativt fællesskab af hellige kvinder i en brutal og konfliktfyldt verden.Matrix er en sanselig og visionær roman om middelalderen. Det er både et portræt af den historiske person og digter Marie de France og en overbevisende moderne hyldest til kvindelige fællesskaber og kvindeligt begær."En enestående roman fuld af sprudlende liv og mod … en overbevisende moderne fortælling om lederskab, ambition og skaberkraft og om individers fælles liv."The Guardian"Groff har skrevet en smuk bog helt uden for kategori, en queer fortælling, som genfinder en stor digter fra fortiden og vækker hende pragtfuldt og sanseligt til live."The Observer"En helt og aldeles strålende roman … Marie de France er en karakter, som er blændende kompleks."The Times"Matrix og skildringen af Marie de France giver Groff et litterært springbræt til en fortid, hvis temaer spejler vores tidsalder."The New York Times Book ReviewLauren Groff (f. 1978) er en af nyere amerikansk litteraturs vigtigste stemmer. Hun fik sit store gennembrud med romanen Skæbne og hævn (2016) og har været finalist til National Book Awards tre gange. Lauren Groff har modtaget The Joyce Carol Oates Prize for Matrix, der blev kåret til en af årets bedste bøger i The Guardian og desuden var nummer 1 på listen over Obamas yndlingsbøger i 2021. Hendes bøger er oversat til 30 sprog.

Vinnare av Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize 2022 Från författaren som utnämnts till en av de bästa i sin generation kommer ett nytt lustfyllt perspektiv på kvinnors historiaETT FÖRLORAT PARADIS Marie de France är utslängd från hovet för att hon är för ful för att giftas bort. Året är 1158 och hennes förtvivlan är lika intensiv som det tunga regnet, som smutsen och den överväldigande stanken av ruttnande kött och själar. Men när valet står mellan att begravas levande eller att rädda ett kloster som rids av svält och sjukdomar ser hon ingen annan utväg än att kavla upp ärmarna. Med list, mod och passion leder hon sina nunnor till ett isolerat liv i lyx och lust, undan farorna av illasinnade män och köttsliga frestelser. MATRIX är en svindlande språklig läsupplevelse som fångar medeltidens magiska miljö av överdåd och äckel med en inlevelse som kryper under huden. Med avstamp i verklighetens Marie de France ger romanen ett häpnadsväckande nytt perspektiv på kvinnor genom historien, och vår historia i stort. En ojämförlig uppvisning av Groffs vansinniga talang ... en oförglömlig bok. USA TodayGroff är en begåvad författare [Matrix] är ren njutning sida efter sida. New York TimesEn fantastiskt välskriven hyllning till den kvinnliga lusten och kreativitet, och med en makalös hjältinna. The Guardian LAUREN GROFF har aldrig skrivit en bok som inte blivit prisbelönt. Hon är tvåfaldig National Book Award-finalist och har mottagit ytterligare ett tiotal utmärkelser för sina böcker. Hennes stora genombrottsroman kommer på svenska i höst, under titeln Ödet och ursinnet. Den har översatts till mer än 20 språk och varit såväl New York Times-bästsäljare som utsedd till årets bästa bok av både Amazon och president Obama. Hon har även utnämnts till Floridas unofficial poet laureate av Washington Post samt fått det prestigefyllda Guggenheimstipendiet. I och med Matrix var det tredje gången hon var i final till National Book Award.Fler röster om MATRIX:En historisk roman som sprakar av elektricitet. TIME MagazineGroff har överträffat sig själv med en prestation lika strålande som Maries visioner. Publisher's WeeklyEtt lysande verk med stor fantasi och ambition. EsquireEn fascinerande studie i tro, passion och våld. Harper's BazaarEn djärv ny riktning för en skicklig författare. VogueEn laddad ny historia ... feministisk, sensuell, mästerlig. Oprah Magazine En kompromisslös, levande vision om vad som kunde ha varit ... Att läsa Matrix är balsam för själen. L.A. Times [Groff] skriver om komplexa världar och aktuella frågor. Ändå känns hennes meningar ofta viktlösa. Som små underverk. Minneapolis Star TribuneMed mästerliga ordlekar och tempo lyckas Groff göra det som kunde ha varit en vardaglig historia till något som är nästintill omöjligt att lägga ifrån sig. NPR Groffs helt unika språk ger ett livfullt flyt till en mästerlig historia. Kirkus

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and more "A relentless exhibition of Groff's freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell ." - USA Today "An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Thrilling and heartbreaking." -Time Magazine " A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her." -New York TimesOne of our best American writers, and author of the highly anticipated THE VASTER WILDS, Lauren Groff returns with this exhilarating and groundbreaking novelCast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and more "A relentless exhibition of Groff's freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell ." - USA Today "An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Thrilling and heartbreaking." -Time Magazine " A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her." -New York TimesOne of our best American writers, and author of the highly anticipated THE VASTER WILDS, Lauren Groff returns with this exhilarating and groundbreaking novelCast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and more "A relentless exhibition of Groff's freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell ." - USA Today "An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Thrilling and heartbreaking." -Time Magazine " A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her." -New York TimesOne of our best American writers, and author of the highly anticipated THE VASTER WILDS, Lauren Groff returns with this exhilarating and groundbreaking novelCast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

Lauren Groff invites a new generation of readers to rediscover the haunting stories of a neglected mid-century master A prolific writer whose long association with The New Yorker rivaled that of her contemporary John Cheever, Nancy Hale was considered one of the preeminent short story artists of her era. But few readers today will recognize her name. Acclaimed author Lauren Groff has selected twenty-five of Hale's best stories, presented here in the first career-spanning edition of this astonishingly gifted writer's work. These stories seem ahead of their time in their depiction of women--complicated characters, sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, often remarkable in their apparent ordinariness, from an adolescent girl in Connecticut driven into delirium over her burgeoning sexuality in "Midsummer," to a twenty-something New Yorker experiencing culture shock during a visit to a friend's house in Virginia in "That Woman," to a New England widow in search of alcohol while babysitting her grandson in "Flotsam." Haunting, vivid, and subversive in the best sense, Where the Light Falls is nothing less than a major literary rediscovery.

On its surface, Night and Day reads like a Shakespearean comedy: we follow the romantic endeavours of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet, as love is confessed and rebuffed, weddings planned and cancelled, until we finally arrive at two engagements. But these dramas play out against the women's movement for voting rights and equal wages, and just as Woolf makes use of the tropes of romantic comedy, she pushes back against them with an undercurrent of doubt about the institution of marriage and the civic imbalance between the sexes.

En blændende fortælling om kærlighed, løgne og hemmeligheder i et tilsyneladende lykkeligt ægteskab. Lotto og Mathilde bliver stormende forelsket på college og kort efter gifter de sig. Som 22-årige er de smukke, glamourøse og med storslåede fremtidsudsigter. Ti år senere ser vennerne stadig med misundelse på deres liv og ægteskab. Med en ildevarslende gysen går det dog op for læseren, at forholdet er mørkere, mere kompliceret og usædvanligt end det ser ud. Med rystende afsløringer og overraskende twists giver Lauren Groff os fortællingen om Lotto og Mathildes ægteskab set fra et andet perspektiv. Alle historier har nemlig to sider - også historien om livslange kærlighedsforhold. Fem hjerter "Skarp og underholdende roman" Politiken Fem stjerner "En højlitterær og helstøbt fortælling ... dragende dejlig og drillende bedragerisk" Berlingske "Et mesterværk" Femina

**A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR****2018 National Book Awards Finalist**In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats are of a human, emotional and psychological nature.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds In Lauren Groff's Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "gorgeously weird and limber" (New Yorker), "frequently funny" (San Francisco Chronicle), "brooding, inventive and often moving" (NPR Fresh Air) -- as Groff is recognized as "Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California." (Washington Post) "Groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher." - NPR's Fresh Air In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild--a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character--a steely and conflicted wife and mother. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida--its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind--becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury--the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.

Den mörka zonen är en laddad novell som utifrån en tillspetsad situation belyser en tvåbarnsmors motstridiga känslor och sårbarhet. I en expressiv berättelse, där det medvetna och det undermedvetna flyter in i varandra, utmanar Lauren Groff den konventionella synen på moderskap samtidigt som hon utforskar den tunna linjen mellan liv och död.Lauren Groff (f 1978 i USA) har sedan sin debut 2008 gett ut flera uppmärksammade romaner och novellsamlingar. Hennes böcker har hyllats av Stephen King och Barack Obama, och hon har av den litterära tidskriften Granta lyfts fram som en av de främsta amerikanska författarna i sin generation. Den mörka zonen publicerades först i The New Yorker (2016) för att sedan ingå i novellsamlingen Florida (2018).

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR From the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster WildsFlorida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "frequently funny" (San Francisco Chronicle), "brooding, inventive and often moving" (NPR Fresh Air) --as Groff is recognized as "Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California." (Washington Post) In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild--a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character--a steely and conflicted wife and mother. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida--its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind--becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury--the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.

A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE "Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers - with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout." --The New York Times Book Review (cover review)From the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Florida, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds: an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.

From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Fates and Furies, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman. In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In "The Wife of the Dictator," that eponymous wife ("brought back . . . from [the dictator's] last visit to America") grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In "Delicate Edible Birds," a group of war correspondents-a lone, high-spirited woman among them-falls sudden prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French countryside. In "Lucky Chow Fun," Groff returns us to Templeton, the setting of her first book, for revelations about the darkness within even that idyllic small town. In some of these stories, enormous changes happen in an instant. In others, transformations occur across a lifetime--or several lifetimes. Throughout the collection, Groff displays particular and vivid preoccupations. Crime is a motif--sex crimes, a possible murder, crimes of the heart. Love troubles recur; they're in every story--love in alcoholism, in adultery, in a flood, even in the great flu epidemic of 1918. Some of the love has depths, which are understood too late; some of the love is shallow, and also understood too late. And mastery is a theme--Groff's women swim and baton twirl, become poets, or try and try again to achieve the inner strength to exercise personal freedom. Overall, these stories announce a notable new literary master. Dazzlingly original and confident, Delicate Edible Birds further solidifies Groff's reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.