"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.
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.
„Čo vlastne v súčasnosti znamená feminizmus?“ pýta sa nás slávna esej, ktorú vo svojom hite citovala aj popová diva Beyoncé.
Úderný titul tejto eseje, ktorý v origináli znie We Should All Be Feminists, sa dostal aj na odevy kolekcie značky Dior. Keď tenistka Dominika Cibulková zverejnila na Instagrame fotku v tričku s týmto nápisom, zniesla sa na ňu vlna kritiky a mnohí fanúšikovia jej odporúčali, aby radšej rodila deti. A aj preto je táto esej dôležitá.
Pochopili to vo Švédsku, kde sa tamojšia vláda v roku 2015 rozhodla venovať každému šestnásťročnému Švédovi a Švédke jeden výtlačok knihy Všetci by sme mali byť feminist(k)ami. Prečo by sme ju mali čítať my?
Nigérijská spisovateľka Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie nám vo svojej osobnej a dobre vyargumentovanej knižnej eseji – rovnomennej adaptácii úspešného TEDx prejavu – ponúka jedinečnú definíciu feminizmu pre 21. storočie. Autorka vychádza predovšetkým zo svojich vlastných skúseností a hlbokého poznania rodovej problematiky. Vie, že rodová politika býva často takmer neviditeľná. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie prichádza s neobyčajným pohľadom na to, čo dnes znamená byť ženou, a zároveň nás v príhodný čas povzbudzuje k tomu, aby sme sa nebáli byť feminst(k)ami.
This is the story of a family - of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together. It is the story of one family, the Sais, whose good life crumbles in an evening; a Ghanaian father, Kwaku Sai, who becomes a highly respected surgeon in the US only to be disillusioned by a grotesque injustice; his Nigerian wife, Fola, the beautiful homemaker abandoned in his wake; their eldest son, Olu, determined to reconstruct the life his father should have had; their twins, seductive Taiwo and acclaimed artist Kehinde, both brilliant but scarred and flailing; their youngest, Sadie, jealously in love with her beautiful college friend. All of them sent reeling on their disparate paths into the world. Until, one day, tragedy spins the Sais in a new direction. This is the story of a family: torn apart by lies, reunited by grief. A family absolved, ultimately, by that bitter but most tenuous bond: familial love. Ghana Must Gointerweaves the stories of the Sais in a rich and moving drama of separation and reunion, spanning generations and cultures from West Africa to New England, London, New York and back again. It is a debut novel of blazing originality and startling power by a writer of extraordinary gifts. 'Most impressive. A novel of today.' Penelope Lively
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.
O'Connell ( Judas Child ) deftly demonstrates her own sleight of hand as she recounts NYPD detective Kathleen Mallory's investigation of the "accidental" death of magician Oliver Tree, who died while trying to recreate on live TV the late Max Candle's most famous trick, in which a man survives the fire of four crossbows. As Mallory capitalizes on her friendship with Candle's beloved cousin, Charles Butler, to delve into a WW II mystery involving a group of elderly magicians, all colleagues of Candle and Tree, hints of Mallory's inner life begin to emerge. Once a street kid, the coldly efficient detective comprehends better than most the soul-deadening choices these men made to survive during the war and the cycle of repentance and retribution that have set a deadly game in motion. Mallory is drawn in by the seductive Malakhai, a master of misdirection who is always accompanied by the illusion of his long-dead wife, Louisa. While the detective, in search of answers, uses her high-tech skills to manipulate data banks and to amass information, Charles Butler is in his basement, trying to put together Max's great trick. Meanwhile, the stalwart Sergeant Riker, Mallory's unofficial guardian and staunch defender, is on call. O'Connell adroitly entwines the excitement of Manhattan's Thanksgiving Day parade with the world of illusion and the anguish of war. Her tough realism and hypnotic prose will leave readers eager for more.
