Sylvie Schneiter Knihy

"Partout dans le monde, la question du genre est cruciale. Alors j'aimerais aujourd'hui que nous nous mettions à rêver à un monde différent et à le préparer. Un monde plus équitable. Un monde où les hommes et les femmes seront plus heureux et plus honnêtes envers eux-mêmes. Et voici le point de départ : nous devons élever nos filles autrement. Nous devons élever nos fils autrement." Dans ces deux discours, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie porte une voix, rare et puissante, d'émancipation.

Born on the shores of Lake Ontario, Grania O'Neill suffers a childhood illness that destroys her hearing. Grania's life without sound is also a life bounded by a powerful family love that tries to protect her from suffering. But when it becomes clear that Grania can no longer thrive among the hearing, her family sends her to the Ontario School for the Deaf. There, protected from the often unforgiving world outside, she learns sign language and speech. And there she meets Jim Lloyd, a hearing man, and the two, in wonderment, begin to create a new emotional vocabulary that encompasses both sound and silence. But a war is raging on the other side of the world. Only two weeks after their wedding, Jim must leave home to serve as a stretcher-bearer on the blood-soaked battlefields of Flanders. During this long and brutal war of attrition, Jim and Grania are pulled to the centre of cataclysmic events that will alter civilisation forever.

The sudden and unexpected death of a renowned surgeon in Ghana has rippling repercussions on his family, both from his first marriage and his second, as truths are uncovered and betrayals are exposed, ultimately bringing everyone closer together

Rachel Kushner, dvojnásobná finalistka ceny National Book Award, si románom Klub Mars, ktorý okamžite vystrelil medzi bestsellery New York Times, vyslúžila pochvaly od Margaret Atwoodovej – „drsné, empatické, vynikajúco podané, bez prikrášľovania a s množstvom rán priamo medzi oči“ – aj od Stephena Kinga – „Klub Mars je kvalita, brutálna, strašná, súcitná aj vtipná kniha“. Píše sa rok 2003 a Romy Hallová, ktorej dali meno po nemeckej herečke, si začína odpykávať dva za sebou nasledujúce doživotné tresty v ženskej väznici v Stanville v kalifornskej Central Valley. Vonku zostal svet, od ktorého ju odstrihli: jej synček Jackson aj San Francisco jej mladosti. Vnútri je nová realita: tisíce žien zápasiacich o to najnutnejšie na prežitie; blufy, predstieranie, každodenné násilie zo strany dozorcov aj väzenkýň; a k tomu čierny humor a absurdity inštitucionalizovaného ľudského života, to všetko zobrazené nesmierne vtipne a presne.