Barbara Kingsolver Knihy

Uznávaná spisovateľka Barbara Kingslover napísala fascinujúci a dôležitý román o mladom hrdinovi a jeho nezabudnuteľnej ceste k dospelosti. Na úpätí južných Apalačských vrchov sa opustenej mladistvej matke narodí v obytnom prívese Demon Copperhead, ktorý akoby z oka vypadol svojmu zosnulémuotcovi. Vyzerá rovnako dobre ako on, má identické ryšavé vlasy, oplýva tým istým sarkazmom a má mimoriadny talent prežiť strasti života. Demon svojím podrezaným jazykom autenticky rozpráva o skúsenostiach s pestúnskou starostlivosťou, detskou prácou, opustenými školami, športovými úspechmi, závislosťou, ničivými láskami a drvivými stratami. Cez toto všetko sa prenáša vďaka záľube v popkultúre, kde dokonca aj superhrdinovia opustili ľudí z vidieka a odišli do miest. Charles Dickens pred mnohými rokmi napísal román David Copperfield, do ktorého vložil svoje skúsenosti so životom v chudobe a s problémami, ktoré spôsobila deťom v jeho spoločenských kruhoch. Rovnaké problémy musíme riešiť aj my v súčasnosti. Na to, aby ste pochopili Demona Copperheada, však nemusíte čítať Dickensovo dielo. Barbara Kingslover sa inšpirovala Dickensovým hnevom a zanietením, ale predovšetkým jeho vierou v silu dobrého príbehu. Demon Copperhead je hlasom novej generácie stratených chlapcov a detí narodených do nádherných a prekliatych miest, ktoré nedokážu opustiť.

Píše se rok 1960 a v Belgickém Kongu to vře. Vesnička Kilanga kdesi v hlubinách džungle zatím působí stejně poklidně jako dřív a život její opuštěné misie rozvíří pouze příjezd amerického kazatele Nathana. Má v misii působit rok a jeho předsevzetím je obrátit na víru co nejvíc obyvatel. V neochvějném přesvědčení o své pravdě však nedokáže vesničanům porozumět a najít si k nim cestu, což se mu ostatně nedaří ani u vlastní rodiny, jež ho na misijní cestě doprovází. Postupně vychází najevo, že pod zdánlivou poslušností manželky i čtyř dcer probublává vůči despotické hlavě rodiny hněv stejně silně, jako se Afrika touží vzepřít koloniální nadvládě. Ve vyprávění se prolínají hlasy jednotlivých protagonistek: každá je jiná a k tragickému osudu rodiny zaujímá vlastní postoj. Přes všechny rozdíly je ale k sobě váže pouto, jež nedokáží zničit ani dramatické okolnosti. Barvitý příběh plný humoru i bolesti, v němž do života obyčejných lidí krutě zasáhne válka a špinavá hra velmocí, vyvolává úžas nejen nad nádherou i nemilosrdnou tvrdostí africké přírody, ale především nad kulturním a jazykovým bohatstvím obou civilizací, pro něž je přitom tak těžké si vzájemně porozumět.

Mexico, 1935. Harrison Shepherd is working in the household of Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo. When exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky arrives, Shepherd throws in his lot with art and the revolution.

"When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. 'Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle through. Or starting with baby animals, and enough sense to refrain from naming them'"--

New York Times best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver and Environmentalist Lily Kingsolver team up to create their first children's book together. On a summer day in an Appalachian Forest, Grandpa takes young Diana camping for the first time, while Coyote pup goes on his first hunt with his Auntie. During this day of discoveries, Coyote Pup learns that it's best to stay away from humans and that hunting is a skill that will take time and experience to master while Diana learns why coyotes are "friends of the forest.

This edition gathers together Barbara Kingsolver's vibrant and various poems, revealing an intimate side to her creative practice as yet unseen. Almost resembling a Collected or Selected Poems, the book is divided into thematically linked sections: a series of 'How to' poems that smartly balance tongue-in-cheek guides with revelatory wisdom;

Defiant, funny and courageously honest, High Tide in Tucson is an engaging and immensely readable collection from one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. 'Possessed of an extravagantly gifted narrative voice, Kingsolver blends a fierce and abiding moral vision with benevolent and concise humour.

"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom. Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans.

This essay collection brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. The essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems and their solutions have grown from the Earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards. schovat popis

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver's finest work.