Sigrid Nunez Knihy

Spisovateľku a univerzitnú profesorku žijúcu v malom newyorskom byte osloví tretia manželka jej nedávno zosnulého najlepšieho priateľa. Požiada ju, aby si vzala jeho psa Apolóna, pretože sama sa oňho nedokáže postarať. Apolón, obrovská nemecká doga, váži osemdesiat kilogramov. Jej byt je preňho príliš malý a tiež psy nie sú v jej bytovom dome povolené. Ale akosi nedokáže povedať nie a prijme psa, ktorý rovnako ako ona prežíva hlboký smútok. Kúsok po kúsku si obaja nachádzajú cestu späť do života. Kniha Priateľ je o láske, priateľstve a sile literatúry, ako aj o upokojujúcom pute medzi človekom a psom. Podľa knihy sa nakrúca film s Naomi Wattsovou v hlavnej úlohe.

By 2018 National Book Award-winning author Sigrid Nunez, Mitz is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, as refracted through their small, sickly, pampered, affectionate pet marmoset, Mitz

A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality. It is a story about displacement and loss, and about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.

A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now

Seeking refuge in the home of an evangelical pastor after a flu pandemic decimates the planet's populations, thirteen-year-old orphan Cole witnesses the community's preparations for a prophesied religious cataclysm and struggles with memories of a very different world.

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection.Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another’s distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez’s new novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself.

Ein großer Roman über Nähe und Innigkeit in unwägbaren Zeiten Als eine gute Freundin der namenlosen Erzählerin in Kalifornien strandet, erklärt sie sich bereit, sich um deren Wohnung in New York zu kümmern – samt temperamentvollem Papagei. In der Wohnung trifft sie auf einen jungen Mann, der noch ganz am Anfang seines Lebens steht. Gemeinsam gehen die beiden mit dem Papagei durch eine bewegte Zeit. Sigrid Nunez’ neuer Roman erzählt davon, was passiert, wenn Fremde bereit sind, ihr Herz füreinander zu öffnen. Ein großes Buch über Nähe und ein hinreißender Roman über die Kunst des Schreibens selbst. »Mit ihrem Witz, ihrer stilistischen Brillanz und ihrer Furchtlosigkeit, mit der sie die großen Fragen unseres Lebens adressiert, hat sich Sigrid Nunez eine große Leserschaft erschrieben.« Denis Scheck

In ihren autobiografischen Erinnerungen beschreibt Sigrid Nunez ihre prägende Zeit mit Susan Sontag in New York City. Als junge Schriftstellerin hilft sie Sontag bei der Korrespondenz und lernt die komplexe Denkerin sowie deren Sohn David kennen. Ein intimes Porträt über eine bedeutende Beziehung und Inspiration.