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Anthony Doerr: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Ee-ee? Ee-ee-eet? Every hair on Seymour’s arms stands up straight. The owl is so well camouflaged that it vocalizes three more times before the boy sets eyes on it, and when he does he gasps. It blinks three times, four. In the shadow against the bark, with its eyelids closed, the owl vanishes. Then the […]

Kirjaluotsi Doerr Anthony, Simon & Schuster, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 04/11/2021 2 kommenttia 6 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Patricia Engel: Infinite Country

Mauro was the one who put it in her head that Bogotá was just another pueblo masquerading as a metropolis and there was more to discover. In their mountains and hungry valleys, they were all descendants of massacred Indigenous Peoples, their violated foremothers. They could hate the conquistadores for what they stole, but they couldn’t […]

Kirjaluotsi Engel Patricia, Kolumbia, Simon & Schuster, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 24/03/2021 0 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Megha Majumdar: A Burning

Almost one year ago I was coming to Mr. Debnath’s house for the first time. He was asking to take my interview in the street. Because – he was saying, this was his explanation – the house was being painted, so there was nowhere to sit.Rubbish. Where were the painters, the rags, the buckets, the […]

Kirjaluotsi Intia, Majumdar Megha, Simon & Schuster, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus 07/02/2021 0 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Alice Hoffman: The World That We Knew

When the roses bloomed, the garden was a sea of silver. Before Ava knew it, summer would be gone. This is the way time moved in the human world. Slowly at first, and then much too fast. The heron still nested on the rooftop, but she knew that in a few months’ time he would […]

Kirjaluotsi Hoffman Alice, Simon & Schuster, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 17/07/2020 0 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Jeannette Walls: The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Dad lost his job at the gypsum mine after getting in an argument with the foreman, and when Christmas came that year, we had no money at all. On Christmas Eve, Dad took each of us kids out into the desert night one by one. I had a blanket wrapped around me, and when it […]

Kirjaluotsi Elämäkerta, Simon & Schuster, Walls Jeannette, Yhdysvallat 29/06/2020 2 kommenttia 6 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Deborah Feldman: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

I am not aware at this moment that I have lost my innocence. I will realize it many years later. One day I will look back and understand that just as there was a moment in my life when I realized where my power lay, there was also a specific moment when I stopped believing […]

Kirjaluotsi Elämäkerta, Feldman Deborah, Saksa, Simon & Schuster, Tietokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 08/06/2020 0 kommenttia 6 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Cho Nam-joo: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Kim Jiyoung is thirty-three years old, or thirty-four in Korean age. She got married three years ago and had a daughter last year. She rents a small apartment on the outskirts of Seoul with her husband Jung Daehyun, thirty-six, and daughter Jung Jiwon. Daehyun works at a mid-size IT company, and Jiyoung used to work […]

Kirjaluotsi Etelä-Korea, Käännöskirjallisuus, Nam-Joo Cho, Simon & Schuster, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus 13/04/2020 2 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Lisa See: The Island of Sea Women & Mary Lynn Bracht: White Chrysanthemum

“Every woman who enters the sea carries a coffin on her back,” she warned the gathering. “In this world, in the undersea world, we tow the burdens of a hard life. We are crossing between life and death every day.” These traditional words were often repeated on Jeju, but we all nodded soberly as though […]

Kirjaluotsi Bracht Mary Lynn, See Lisa, Simon & Schuster, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 10/04/2019 0 kommenttia 9 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Kirjabloggaajien joulukalenteri 2018 - luukku 11 - Joulunviettoa poikkeusoloissa

Kirjabloggaajien joulukalenterin luukku 10 aukesi eilen blogissa Aina joku kesken ja huominen luukku 12 aukeaa blogissa Luetaanko tämä. Kirjabloggaajien joulukalenterin luukussa 11 kurkistetaan hieman toisenlaisiin joulutarinoihin. Äänikirjojen kuuntelu on kasvanut räjähdysmäisesti kuluvan vuoden aikana ja minäkin olen kantanut korteni kekoon. Nopeasti laskettuna olen tämän vuoden aikana kuunnellut noin 30 äänikirjaa lukuaikapalveluista. Ihan sattumalta viime aikoina […]

Kirjaluotsi Backman Fredrik, Clemmons Zinzi, HarperCollins, HighBridge, Hornak Francesca, Iso-Britannia, Jones Tayari, Käännöskirjallisuus, Novellit, Ruotsi, Simon & Schuster, Tammi, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 11/12/2018 4 kommenttia 8 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Lisa See: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

“You have special abilities,” she goes on. “I don’t mean you are a witch or a fox spirit. And you’ve never seemed drawn to the special gift of healing or magic. Rather, you are like A-ma Mata, who gave birth to the Akha people, who pushed against her restraints, who said, ‘No, I will not […]

Kirjaluotsi See Lisa, Simon & Schuster, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 29/07/2018 0 kommenttia 7 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Lisa Genova: Every Note Played

“What about you?” asks Grace, addressing her father for the first time. “Why didn’t you tell me about this?” He was diagnosed just before Christmas last year. He didn’t want to ruin Grace’s holiday with his grim news. Then full denial set in. He couldn’t have even whispered, alone in his condo with no one […]

Kirjaluotsi Genova Lisa, Simon & Schuster, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 03/05/2018 0 kommenttia 6 min lukuaika Lue lisää
John Irving: Avenue of Mysteries

Dreams edit themselves; dreams are ruthless with details. Common sense does not dictate what remains, or is not included, in a dream. A two-minute dream can feel like forever. Pitkässä parisuhteessa toisen maneerit saattavat välillä ärsyttää vietävästi ja samanaikaisesti ne ovat juuri niitä asioita, jotka tekevät tästä kyseisestä persoonasta sydämesi valitun. Tämä aika pitkälle kuvaa […]

Kirjaluotsi Irving John, Simon & Schuster, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 18/03/2016 0 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Lisa Genova: Inside the O'Briens

At first they stare, curious, trying to figure him out. Is he drunk? Mentally impaired? Is he harmless or violent? Is he contagious? Deranged? Before they get too close, they decide their best course of action is to look away, to pretend not to see the revolting display of human disability before them, and they […]

Kirjaluotsi Genova Lisa, Simon & Schuster, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 28/10/2015 0 kommenttia 6 min lukuaika Lue lisää

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