Ann Patchettová Knihy

Danny žije na predmestí Filadelfie v impozantnom Holandskom dome, ktorý po smrti majiteľov kúpil jeho otec, podnikateľ s nehnuteľnosťami. Vyrastá bez matky, s citovo chladným otcom, no pod ochrannými krídlami pôvabnej a nadanej staršej sestry Maeve. K sestre ho viaže pevné puto. Ich detstvo plynie príjemne a predvídateľne pod ostražitými pohľadmi portrétov pôvodných majiteľov domu, kým si otec jedného dňa neprivedie Andreu, vdovu s dvoma dcérami. Onedlho sa s ňou ožení.. Jej pričinením napokon Danny a Maeve prídu o milovaný domov a životnú istotu. Nevyrovnajú sa s tým ani potom, keď sa osamostatnia, a trauma z detstva ich prenasleduje celé desaťročia. Súrodenci sa pravidelne vracajú na miesto, kam nemajú prístup, a márne klopú na zamknuté dvere minulosti. Neprítomnosť matky je príčinou ich vynúteného vyhnanstva a ovplyvňuje ich väčšmi než ľudia, ktorí sú súčasťou ich dospelého života. Zdá sa, že raj detstva je navždy stratený. No jedného dňa osud nanovo zamieša karty... Holandský dom je príbeh o rodine, láske, zrade, zodpovednosti a obeti, o mocných putách času a citovej závislosti od miest, ktoré nás celý život magicky priťahujú

Na jar roku 2020 sa Larine tri dcéry vracajú do rodinného sadu v Severnom Michigane. Pri zbere čerešní prosia matku, aby im vyrozprávala príbeh Petra Dukea, slávneho herca, s ktorým pred rokmi zdieľala javisko, ale aj milostný románik v Divadle na Tomovom jazere. Keď Lara spomína na minulosť, jej dcéry sa obzerajú za vlastnými životmi a ich vzťahom s matkou, a sú nútené prehodnotiť svet a všetko, čo si doteraz mysleli, že vedia a poznajú. Divadlo na Tomovom jazere je meditáciou nad mladou láskou, manželstvom a životmi, ktoré rodičia viedli pred narodením detí. Kniha je plná nádeje a skúma, čo znamená byť šťastný, aj keď sa svet okolo rúca. Ann Patchettová tu rovnako ako v románe Holandský dom, ktorý bol nominovaný na Pulitzerovu cenu, spája podmanivé rozprávačské umenie s prenikavým pohľadom na rodinnú dynamiku. Výsledkom je bohatý príbeh, vyrozprávaný s hlbokou múdrosťou a jemnosťou, ktorý opäť dokazuje, prečo je autorka jedným z najuznávanejších literárnych talentov súčasnosti.

In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity. As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle. Charged with finding her former mentor Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she journeys into the unforgiving heart of darkness. Stirring and luminous, State of Wonder is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss beneath the rain forest's jeweled canopy.

V Michiganu je třešňová sezóna. Lara a její tři dcery mají plné ruce práce. Ale… vlastně je všechno jinak. Maisie a Nell mají být na univerzitě a třešně mají česat námezdní dělníci. Jenže se píše rok 2020 a ve světě zuří první vlna pandemie covidu 19. Lara je ale šťastná, farmaje svět sám pro sebe a ona má nečekaně celou rodinu zase pohromadě. A při česání dcerám vypráví o jednom létě kdysi dávno, o létě, které strávila u divadelní společnosti u jezera Tom s pozdější hollywoodskou hvězdou Peterem Dukem. Jezero Tom je nenápadné vyprávění o velkých věcech. O zamilování, o lásce, o divadle i environmentálním žalu. A také je oslavou rodiny a místa - farmy v Michiganu, s třešňovým sadem a hřbitůvkem na kopci, kde jednou všichni skončí. Ann Patchettová je mistrná vypravěčka, napětí střídají emoce, nostalgii nečekané dějové zvraty. A jedno je jisté, všichni bychom chtěli být u jezera Tom. Anebo česat třešně. Lara zažila obojí.

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.

One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly -- thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. When, in her twenties, Franny begins an affair with the legendary author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story of her siblings is no longer hers to control. Their childhood becomes the basis for his wildly successful book, ultimately forcing them to come to terms with their losses, their guilt, and the deeply loyal connection they feel for one another. Told with equal measures of humor and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation, and the ownership of stories

Any story that starts will also end.' As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth as she explores family, friendship, marriage, failure, success, and what it all means. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: essays that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Ranging from the personal - her portrait of the three men she called her fathers; unexpectedly falling into a life-changing friendship with Tom Hanks; how to answer when someone asks why you don't have children - to the sublime - exploring the Harvard Museum of Natural History before its doors open; the unexpected influence of Snoopy; the importance of knitting - each essay transforms the particular into the universal, letting us all see our own worlds anew. Illuminating, penetrating, funny and generous, These Precious Days is joyful time spent in the company of one of our greatest living authors.

Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett’s life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore. As she shares stories of the people, places, ideals, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed, Ann Patchett brings into focus the large experiences and small moments that have shaped her as a daughter, wife, and writer.

Exuberant and affirming, it's funny and immensely clever, emotionally rare and strong. I feel bereft now I've finished' Tessa Hadley Casey has ended up back in Massachusetts after a devastating love affair. Her mother has just died and she is knocked sideways by grief and loneliness, moving between the restaurant where she waitresses for the Harvard elite and the rented shed she calls home. Her one constant is the novel she has been writing for six years, but at thirty-one she is in debt and directionless, and feels too old to be that way - it's strange, not be the youngest kind of adult anymore. And then, one evening, she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar walks into her restaurant, his two boys in tow. He is older, grieving the loss of his wife, and wrapped up in his own creativity. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, stuck between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures. Lily King's Writers & Lovers follows Casey in the last days of a long youth, a time when everything - her family, her work, her relationships - comes to a crisis. Hugely moving and impossibly funny, it is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another. It is a novel about love and creativity, and ultimately it captures the moment when a woman becomes an artist.

From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto and The Dutch House, Ann Patchett, and the bestselling illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, Robin Preiss Glasser, comes a hilarious and heartwarming story about a goat who keeps getting all the blame, but ultimately teaches one family about the importance of honesty and owning up to your mistakes.

Rose, a beautiful and mysterious woman living at St. Elizabeth's home for unwed mother, has no intention of telling her mother or her husband about her pregnancy, until a healing spring near the home changes her mind.

Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.

In this anthology, 26 writers illuminate the motivations at the heart of their creative lives in original essays that are as surprising and varied as their fiction. The contributors include Pat Conroy, Norman Mailor, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace.

Third - and breakthrough - novel by an acclaimed American writer with an enchanting, quirky voice. `The Magician's Assistant' is at once a love story and a brilliant portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past.

A moving story of overlapping lives from the prizewinning author of Bel Canto

Ann Patchett's second novel to be published in the UK, following the Orange Prize-shortlisted 'The Magician's Assistant'.

Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

Ann Patchett erzählt, wie sie 2011, nach der Schließung der letzten unabhängigen Buchhandlung in Nashville, entschied, selbst eine zu eröffnen: The Parnassus Bookshop. Ihr Werk ist ein kluges und wichtiges Plädoyer für den Erhalt des unabhängigen Buchhandels und des Lesens.