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Druhý diel trilógie, ktorá sa začala románom Obrys, jedna z 10 najlepších kníh roka podľa denníka New York Times. Faye sa po rozvode presťahuje aj s malými synmi do Londýna. Rozpad sa stáva katalyzátorom viacerých zmien a posunov – osobných, morálnych, umeleckých a praktických –, kým sa snaží vytvoriť novú realitu pre seba a svoje deti. V meste sa musí konfrontovať s aspektami života, ktorým sa doposiaľ snažila vyhýbať, a zvažuje otázky zraniteľnosti a moci, skazy a obnovy. Inteligentná rozprávačka sa ponára hlbšie do tém načrtnutých v románe Obrys a poskytuje prenikavé a dojemné úvahy o detstve a osude, hodnote utrpenia, morálnych problémoch osobnej zodpovednosti a záhady, ktorou je zmena.

Obrys je román v desiatich rozhovoroch. Ide o príbeh spisovateľky, ktorá počas dusivého horúceho leta v Aténach učí na kurze kreatívneho písania. Prednáša o technikách rozprávania, počúva príbehy svojich študentov a študentiek. Po večeroch sa stretáva s inými hosťujúcimi spisovateľmi a spisovateľkami. Pláva v Iónskom mori s mužom, ktorého stretla v lietadle. Ľudia v jej okolí obšírne rozprávajú o sebe: o svojich predstavách, úzkostiach, teóriách, výčitkách a túžbach. Prostredníctvom ich priznaní sa pred nami rysuje portrét rozprávačky, ženy, ktorá sa učí zmieriť sa s veľkou stratou.

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists comes this extraordinary novel that takes us behind the closed doors of an affluent suburb in England, into the hearts and minds of the women who are trying to survive there

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, this memoir by multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk explores the transformative experience of motherhood. Selected as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by the New York Times, it delves into the contradictions of motherhood, portraying it as both commonplace and unimaginable, prosaic yet mysterious. Cusk reflects on the dualities of this role—banal yet bizarre, compelling yet tedious—capturing the essence of becoming a mother as a solitary performance in a drama of human existence. Her narrative reveals how an ordinary life morphs into a tale of profound passions, love, servitude, confinement, and compassion. With humor and insight, Cusk recounts a year of modern motherhood, weaving together stories of lost freedom, lessons in humility, and the roots of love. This memoir serves as a meditation on madness and mortality, offering a sentimental education in the realities of parenting—babies, books, toddler groups, and the challenges of never being alone. The New York Times Book Review praises it as "funny and smart," likening it to a war diary, describing it as wholly original and unabashedly true.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Stella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair, arriving in a tiny Sussex village that's home to a family that is slightly larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them is low and remote. It soon becomes clear that Stella falls short of even the meager specifications her new role requires, most visibly in the area of "aptitude for the country life." But what drove her to leave her home, job, and life in London in the first place? Why has she severed all ties with her parents? Why is she so reluctant to discuss her past? And who, exactly, is Edward? The Country Life is a rich and subtle novel about embarrassment, awkwardness, and being alone; about families, or the lack of them; and about love in some peculiar guises. Rachel Cusk's widely praised novel is a captivating tale of one young woman's adventures in self-discovery.

Cusk ist besser als Knausgård. Berliner Zeitung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A woman arrives in Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Once there, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voices begins to weave a complex human tapestry: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself. SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE, THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC PRIZE

NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.

In her most personal and relevant book to date, Cusk explores divorce's tremendous impact on the lives of women. This unflinching chronicle of Cusk's own recent separation and the upheaval that followed is also a vivid study of divorce's complex place in our society.