New Releases by Elizabeth Strout

La petite ville d’Amgash, dans l’Illinois, est en émoi. Lucy Barton, fille de la ville devenue écrivain à succès, exilée à New York depuis de longues années, vient de publier un livre sur sa jeunesse. Le récit de son enfance, pauvre et solitaire, provoque chez les gens d’Amgash des réminiscences, des questions et des révélations. Un jour, Lucy Barton en personne fait irruption à Amgash après dix-sept ans d’absence. Les retrouvailles de Lucy avec les siens sont l’occasion d’instants âpres, mais beaux – comme si la douleur de la fuite et la rancœur s’étaient dissipées en un instant. Dans Tout est possible, Elizabeth Strout renoue avec les personnages de son précédent roman, Je m’appelle Lucy Barton, pour explorer la complexité du lien à l’Autre. Animées par le livre et la visite exutoires de Lucy, des personnes qui l’ont connue se trouvent forcées à dire, ou parviennent enfin à dire, les secrets qui les écrasent depuis longtemps. Une chance offerte de comprendre les choses et les êtres, à défaut de pouvoir tout recommencer. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Pierre Brévignon « Ce livre est un joyau... Elizabeth Strout livre une chronique brillante de l’ambiguïté et de la délicatesse de la condition humaine. Tout est possible est un roman empreint de sagesse et époustouflant. » - The Observer « Une lecture envoûtante. » - The Sunday Times « Si les personnages excentriques et charmants du best-seller de la lauréate du Prix Pulitzer Elizabeth Strout vous ont manqué, vous vous ferez une joie de les retrouver dans Tout est possible, une suite pleine d’intelligence et profondément émouvante. » - Elle USA

Lucy Barton sedang dalam masa pemulihan dari penyakit yang tadinya hanya penyakit sederhana. Ibunya, yang sudah lama tak bicara dengan Lucy, datang menjenguknya. Mereka membicarakan orang-orang yang pernah mereka kenal dulu, dan hubungan antara ibu dan anak ini perlahan mencair. Namun di balik percakapan yang baik-baik saja, ada tekanan dan kerinduan Lucy yang mendalam, baik akan kehidupan pernikahan, impian menjadi penulis, keluarganya yang penuh masalah, dan anak-anaknya.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this “compulsively readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout “This book, this writer, are magnificent.”—Ann Patchett Winner of The Story Prize • A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • One of USA Today’s top 10 books of the year Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother’s happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the author’s celebrated New York Times bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout’s place as one of America’s most respected and cherished authors.

Dětství sourozenců Burgessových bylo poznamenáno nešťastnou nehodou, při níž přišli o otce. Bratři Jim a Bob, pronásledováni přízrakem tragédie, pocitem viny i duchem rodného maloměsta, odejdou z Maine do New Yorku, jakmile je to možné, a oba si najdou práci v právnické sféře. Jejich vztah rozhodně není ideální a napětí, které mezi nimi panuje, se ještě prohloubí, když jim náhle zavolá jejich sestra Susan, která jediná zůstala v rodném městě. Její osamělý dospívající syn Zach se dostal do problémů a Susan zoufale potřebuje pomoc svých bratrů. A tak se Burgessovi chlapci vrací do krajiny svého dětství, jsou nuceni znovu se postavit své minulosti a vypořádat se s pokřivenými rodinnými vazbami. V knize se snoubí vzácná kombinace brilantního vyprávění, skvělé prózy a znamenitého vhledu do nitra postav. The Washington Post knihu prohlásil za jednu z nejlepších roku!

Een oud-lerares wiskunde volgt de gebeurtenissen in een kustplaatsje aan de Amerikaanse oostkust.

I ragazzi Burgess, come vengono chiamati Jim, Bob e Susan, sono nati a Shirley Falls, nel Maine, e sono cresciuti in una piccola casa gialla in cima a una collina, in un angolo di continente appartato. Da adulti si sono allontanati, ognuno a scacciare il ricordo di un antico dramma familiare mai spento. Lassù è rimasta solo Susan, mentre gli altri due vivono a Brooklyn, New York. Nei Burgess si possono scorgere tre anime distinte e tanto diverse che è quasi impensabile immaginarli nella stessa foto di famiglia. Eppure, quando inizia questa storia, Susan chiama e chiede aiuto proprio a Bob e Jim: suo figlio, loro nipote, è nei guai. E allora non solo i tre fratelli sono costretti a riavvicinarsi, a dividere la preoccupazione e a tentare di ricomporre un trauma che alimenta ogni minima increspatura della loro intimità, ma sono anche travolti da una rivoluzione privata che implica, per tutti, il progetto di una nuova vita. Il quarto romanzo di Elizabeth Strout è un’istantanea scattata nel momento esatto in cui le fragilità affettive escono allo scoperto mostrando tutta la complessità dei legami indissolubili. La sottile accortezza narrativa, che si manifesta in dettagli minuti quanto necessari, riesce a illuminare i più esili movimenti dell’animo e a scandagliare l’oscillazione perpetua della nostra emotività. Sono questi elementi a fare de I ragazzi Burgess un grande romanzo sull’essere fratelli e sull’inesorabile richiamo della famiglia. E confermano Elizabeth Strout come una delle più importanti voci della letteratura americana contemporanea. «I ragazzi Burgess ha la stessa ambizione di Pastorale americana di Philip Roth, ma su toni più intimi». «Time» «La prosa di Elizabeth Strout procede grazie a momenti di impressionante chiarezza poetica». «The New Yorker» «I ragazzi Burgess ci mostra quanto questa straordinaria scrittrice continui a evolversi in maniera sorprendente». «The Washington Post» «Strout plasma la sua narrazione con grazia, intelligenza e humour pungente». «The New York Times Book Review» «Ciò che rende Elizabeth Strout davvero eccezionale è quanto riesca a raggiungere un equilibrio perfetto tra il ritmo della trama e la profondità delle emozioni». «Chicago Tribune»

In einer Kleinstadt im einsamen Norden der USA hat Pastor Tyler Caskey nach dem tragischen Tod seiner Frau das Gefühl, den Boden unter den Füßen zu verlieren. Er hadert nicht nur mit sich und der Welt, sondern zweifelt auch an Gott und seinem Glauben. Und in der Gemeinde, in der er bis dahin geliebt und geachtet war, fragen sich immer mehr Leute, ob Tyler sich nicht zu sehr gehenlässt in seinem Schmerz... Mit unnachahmlicher Leichtigkeit und großer Menschenkenntnis zeichnet Elizabeth Strout das Porträt einer ganz gewöhnlichen Kleinstadt. Und sie erzählt von Menschen wie du und ich, von ihren Stärken und Schwächen, von ihrer Warmherzigkeit und Freundlichkeit, aber auch von ihrem Misstrauen und ihrer Engstirnigkeit.

The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge from the author of Olive, Again and Oh William! Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate, and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as Olive grows older, she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She is a woman who sees into the hearts of those around her, their triumphs and tragedies. A penetrating, vibrant exploration of the human soul, the story of Olive Kitteridge will make you laugh, nod in recognition, wince in pain, and shed a tear or two. ''As perfect a novel as you will ever read'' Evening Standard ''A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own'' Hilary Mantel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes “a portrait of an American community in turmoil that’s as ambitious as Philip Roth’s American Pastoral but more intimate in tone” (Time). “What truly makes Strout exceptional . . . is the perfect balance she achieves between the tides of story and depths of feeling.”—Chicago Tribune A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Good Housekeeping Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan—the Burgess sibling who stayed behind—urgently calls them home, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed the brothers’ relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. This edition includes an original essay by Elizabeth Strout about the origins of The Burgess Boys.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly). “Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human fallibility.”—O: The Oprah Magazine In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family’s tragedy. Tyler’s usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tyler’s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parish’s humanity—and his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager''s alienation from her distant mother, and a parent''s rage at the discovery of her daughter''s secrets. “One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—The New York Times Book Review Before there was Olive Kitteridge, there was Amy and Isabelle… In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. That they eat, sleep, and work side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls—a location fans of Strout will recognize from her critically acclaimed novel, The Burgess Boys—only increases the tension. And just when it appears things can''t get any worse, Amy''s sexuality begins to unfold, causing a vast and icy rift between mother and daughter that will remain unbridgeable unless Isabelle examines her own secretive and shameful past. A Reader''s Guide is included in this powerful first novel by the author who brought Olive Kitteridge to millions of readers.

In her first novel, ''Amy and Isabelle'', Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager''s alienation from her distant mother - and a parent''s rage at the discovery of her daughter''s sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. And eating, sleeping, and working side by side in the gossip-ridden mill town of Shirley Falls doesn''t help matters. But when Amy is discovered behind the steamed-up windows of a car with her math teacher, the vast and icy distance between mother and daughter becomes unbridgeable. As news of the scandal reaches every ear, it is Isabelle who suffers from the harsh judgment of Shirley Falls, intensifying her shame about her own secret past. And as Amy seeks comfort elsewhere, she discovers the fragility of human happiness through other dramas, from the horror of a missing child to the trials of Fat Bev, the community peacemaker.