Colum McCann Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at unfathomable depths.Fennell’s journey brings him to the west coast of Africa, where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind the dazzling veneer of the technological world. He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. He is also in love with a South African actress, Zanele, who must leave to go on her own literary adventure to London.When the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel. At sea, they are forced to confront the most elemental questions of life, love, absence, belonging, and the perils of our severed connections. Can we, in our fractured world, reweave ourselves out of the thin, broken threads of our pasts? Can the ruptured things awaken us from our despair?Resoundingly simple and turbulent at the same time, Twist is a meditation on the nature of narrative and truth from one of the great storytellers of our times.

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden KeefeA 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMESThe English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A whole decade. Time rushes past. And yet, for Diane, that moment is unending. In American Mother, legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane's story as she recalls the months of his captivity, the efforts made to bring him home and the days following his death, in which Diane came face to face with one of the men responsible for her son's kidnapping and torture. A testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage, American Mother takes us inside one woman's extraordinary journey to find connection in a world torn asunder, and to fight for others as a way to keep her son's memory alive.

À l’heure où Donald Trump quitte la Maison Blanche et que les États-Unis entrent dans une nouvelle ère, America tire sa révérence avec un dernier numéro agrémenté pour l’occasion d’un poster inédit et d’une vingtaine de pages supplémentaires. Dans ce 16ème opus, retrouvez d’abord un grand entretien avec l’écrivain irlando-américain Colum McCann qui nous avait fait l’honneur de participer au premier numéro. Persuadé du rôle déterminant de la littérature, l’auteur livre ses inquiétudes nouvelles mais aussi ses espoirs face à l’inconnue de ces années post-Trump. Alors que Joe Biden vient d’être élu 46ème président, America s’interroge sur l’avenir de l’Amérique à travers des portraits de figures démocrates, un reportage sur le devenir du trumpisme ou encore un essai sur les GAFA, les autres maitres du pays. Autre temps forts de ce numéro, un conte fantastique inédit de la star de la BD Emil Ferris inspiré de la trouble période du confinement, une nouvelle de l’immense écrivain Ernest Hemingway, encore jamais publiée en France, ainsi que le parti pris de l’auteure Rachel Kushner qui imagine la conclusion minable de la relation entre le fils de Donald Trump et sa petite amie, métaphore du désamour du pays pour la défaite en hommage au film « Shame ».

Reportagen schickt die besten Autorinnen und Autoren rund um den Globus. Für Geschichten, die bleiben.In dieser Ausgabe:- Miss Marple aus Zürich. Sie beschattet Erbschleicher, Fremdgänger, Blaumacher. Unterwegs mit einerPrivatdetektivin im mondänen Seefeld. Von Juliane Schiemenz.- Albtraum auf 80m2. Feindliche Übernahme: Die Untermieterin Katherine Gladstone macht sich in einem New Yorker Apartment breit. Von Bridget Read- Der Ehefrau ausgeliefert. Ein Schlaganfall lässt Andrzej Grzela verstummen. Nur seine Augen können noch sprechen. Von Malgorzata Smolak.- Ein Haus in Palästina. Zwischen brennenden Autoreifen, Wasserwerfern und Checkpoints: Dar Jacir, eine Oase der Kunst. Von Colum McCann- Hier schweigt Ihr Kapitän. Nicht einmal das Swissair-Grounding veränderte das Leben von Langstreckenpilot Alex Borer so stark wie Corona. Von Christoph Keller- Die historische Reportage: Mütter Courage, 1995. Von Sonia Seymour Mikich.

'McCann returns to Ireland with this collection, turning his measured gaze and incisive prose to the country's recent history with devastating effect' Maggie O'Farrell 'McCann once again shows why he is one of the best writers in the world ... Deeply moving and powerfully written, these are likely to become classics' Big Issue ___________________ One powerful novella, with two thematically linked short stories on either side of it, forms the basis of Everything in This Country Must. Although these are stories about Ireland and the Troubles, they have an almost mythical rather than a political feel. In the title story, four young soldiers help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in flood, unable to understand that their help will never be anything but an insult. In the novella, Hunger Strike, a young boy and his mother flee to Galway as the boy's uncle succumbs to a hunger strike in a Derry gaol. In Wood, a ten-year-old boy is asked by his mother to make poles for the marching season. ___________________ 'Colum McCann's stories are brooding, meditative and lyrically controlled to that delicate point where the emotion within them intensifies with each succeeding reading and recognition. The political turmoil of Northern Ireland finds here an answering, subtly respondent voice - wonderfully skilled and deeply felt' Seamus Deane

Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon--named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides--is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints both physical and emotional that they must negotiate. Their worlds shift irreparably after ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn of one another's stories, they recognize the loss that connects them and they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace. McCann crafts Apeirogon out of a universe of fictional and non-fictional material. He crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature, and politics together in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. Musical, cinematic, muscular, delicate, and soaring, Apeirogon is a novel for our times.

Neue Erzählungen vom amerikanisch-irischen Bestsellerautor Colum McCann sind lebensnah, politisch und poetisch. Die Washington Post beschreibt die Geschichten als Ausdruck von McCanns Genie, da sie das unglaubliche Mysterium der menschlichen Erfahrung einfangen. In der längsten Erzählung, 'Dreizehn Sichtweisen', geht ein alter Mann an einem verschneiten Tag in Manhattan mit seinem Sohn essen. Nach dem Essen wird er allein auf der Straße überfallen und getötet. Die Kriminalbeamten rekonstruieren seine letzten Schritte mithilfe von Überwachungskameras, was ihrer Arbeit eine poetische Dimension verleiht, da sie nach einem Schlüssel suchen, der alles erklärt. Diese zentrale Erzählung wird durch weitere Geschichten ergänzt: Eine Frau telefoniert an Silvester aus einem Unterstand in den afghanischen Bergen, während eine andere ihren früheren Folterer im Fernsehen erkennt. McCanns Themen sind vielfältig und stark an aktuellen Ereignissen orientiert, doch im Kern geht es um die Zerbrechlichkeit seiner Figuren und die Kraft, die sie aus ihrem Leben schöpfen. Er entdeckt in den verborgensten Ecken unseres Daseins das, was uns groß macht.