New Releases by Jennifer Egan

Året är 2010 och techikonen Bix Bouton letar desperat efter en ny idé. Svaret finner han i en ny teknologi som tillåter människor att ladda ner sina minnen, att externalisera och äga dem, så att de alltid finns tillgängliga. Under det kommande decenniet tar hans innovation världen med storm. Men alla är inte lika övertygade, och en motrörelse föds. Kan minnena verkligen ägas, utan att man samtidigt förlorar något av sin mänsklighet? Jennifer Egans hyllade roman skildrar hur teknologin förföriskt letar sig in i det mest privata, och förändrar våra närmaste relationer, våra minnen och drömmar. Men framför allt är Sockerhuset en varm och mästerligt berättad roman fylld av liv och historier, av människoöden som flätas samman på de mest oväntade sätt av tidens obönhörliga gång.

Mit ihrem Roman »Der größere Teil der Welt« gelang Jennifer Egan der internationale Durchbruch. Jetzt knüpft sie in ihrem neuen visionären Roman »Candy Haus« über unsere Gegenwart ein schillerndes Netz aus Lebensläufen. Im Mittelpunkt steht der charismatische Bix Bouton, Gründer eines atemberaubenden Start-ups in Amerika. Sein Coup ist eine App, die unsere Erinnerungen ins Netz hochlädt. Ein gefährliches Glück, denn die Erinnerungen werden für andere sichtbar. Und da ist Bennie Salazar, Ex-Punk-Rocker, der als Musikproduzent in Luxus driftet und seinen Sohn an die Sucht verliert ... New York, Chicago, Los Angeles – die Wüste, der Regenwald: Mit vor Energie funkelnden Figuren erzählt Egan von der Suche nach Familie und Geborgenheit in einer Zeit, in der die digitale Welt unsere Sehnsüchte auffrisst.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER * Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more! OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24''s TV adaptation of THE CANDY HOUSE and A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD! From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love. “A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history” (San Francisco Chronicle), “this is minimalist maximalism. It’s as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive” (The New York Times).

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Una grande casa di mattoni dorati con tende da sole a strisce verdi e gialle che svolazzano dalle finestre affacciate sulla spiaggia, mancano quattro giorni a Natale e fa un freddo cane. Anna Kerrigan, dodici anni, accompagna il padre a far visita a Dexter Styles, un uomo potente che spadroneggia su mezza New York e che, intuisce, è decisivo per la sopravvivenza della sua famiglia. Anna è ipnotizzata dal mare e dall''aria di mistero che sembra circondare la conversazione tra i due adulti. Anni dopo, suo padre è scomparso e l''America si sta preparando a entrare nella Seconda guerra mondiale. File di navi militari punteggiano l''orizzonte davanti ai cantieri navali dove Anna ha trovato lavoro, ora che alle donne è permesso sostituire gli uomini mentre sono al fronte. Anna è audace e combattiva - diventerà la prima donna palombaro! -, pronta a superare tutte le linee che dividono il mondo maschile da quello femminile, i ritrovi per le chiacchiere di signorine nubili dai nightclub dove gangster e ragazze spavalde ballano scatenati. Ed è qui che una sera rivede Dexter Styles e comincia a intuire i misteri che aleggiano attorno alla scomparsa di suo padre. È l''inizio di molti cambiamenti, nella vita di Anna e della sua famiglia, nella storia di New York. Jennifer Egan rovescia ancora una volta ogni aspettativa e scrive un romanzo storico, a modo suo. Seguendo Dexter e Anna in un mondo popolato da criminali, marinai, sommozzatori, banchieri aristocratici e uomini del sindacato, immortala le trasformazioni destinate a segnare l''intero secolo: gli anni in cui le donne conquistano libertà e indipendenza, l''America diventa una grande potenza militare, la malavita si mescola all''alta società newyorkese e ai gangster succede una nuova generazione senza scrupoli. Con la sicurezza abbagliante dei grandi scrittori, Jennifer Egan dà vita a un romanzo destinato a entrare nel canone della letteratura cogliendo in maniera magistrale un momento decisivo nella storia degli uomini e delle donne, dell''America e del mondo intero.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, and Time Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. u200eYears later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished. “A magnificent achievement, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft” (The Boston Globe), “Egan’s first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you’re reading historical fiction at all” (Elle). Manhattan Beach takes us into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men in a dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world.

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Sam Lafferty has hit bottom. Under investigation and on leave from the financial services firm that employed him, Sam has uprooted his wife and two daughters and dragged them against their will to central China. While on this rotten family vacation, in an alien and uncomfortable landscape, after years of deception, lousy investment, moral—and soon-coming financial—bankruptcy, and with his family in tow—Sam pursues the man who had first set him on a path to corruption from crumbling binguan hotels without soap or towels to Buddhist caves near Xi’an. In this dazzling piece, selected from the stunning collection of short fiction Emerald City, by the critically acclaimed author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, Jennifer Egan lays bare our capacity for failure. An ebook short.

Danny et Howie ont partagé les mêmes jeux d’enfants, des mondes inventés, peuplés de héros et de salauds, jusqu’à ce que Howie plonge dans la dépression suite à un tour sinistre combiné par son cousin. Vingt ans plus tard, les rôles ont été redistribués : Howie a fait fortune alors que Danny accumule les échecs.À la demande de Howie, il le rejoint pour rénover un château médiéval en Europe de l’Est. Dans un climat de paranoïa extrême, coupés du monde extérieur, les protagonistes vont alors rejouer le terrible événement de leur adolescence. Au même moment, depuis la cellule d’une prison américaine, Ray raconte une histoire qui relie étrangement les délits du passé et du présent. Jennifer Egan signe un roman gothique des temps modernes sur le pouvoir et les dangers de l’imagination. Traduit de l''anglais (Etats-Unis) par Sylvie Schneiter

Ontroerende roman over de hechte band tussen twee zussen San Francisco, 1978. De achttienjarige Phoebe is geobsedeerd door haar zus Faith, die als hippie naar Europa trok en in Italië op mysterieuze wijze om het leven kwam. Om erachter te komen wat er is gebeurd, reist Phoebe naar Europa. Aan de hand van ansichtkaarten die Faith destijds stuurde, volgt ze het spoor van haar zus via Londen, Amsterdam, Berlijn en Parijs. Daar ontdekt ze een waarheid die dramatischer blijkt te zijn dan ze ooit had kunnen vermoeden. Jennifer Egan (Chicago, 1962) woont en werkt aan haar nieuwe roman in Brooklyn. Het onzichtbare circus is haar jubelend ontvangen debuut, dat verfilmd werd in 2001. Voor Bezoek van de knokploeg won ze vele prijzen, waaronder de Pulitzer Prize, de National Book Critics Circle Award en de Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Primeiro romance da premiada autora Jennifer Egan, Circo invisível se passa em 1978, tomando as tensões e os dramas políticos dos anos 1960 como cenário da história de Phoebe O’Connor, uma adolescente de 18 anos obcecada pela memória da irmã, Faith, uma jovem hippie, bela e idealista que morreu em 1970, na Itália.Com a intenção de descobrir a verdade sobre a vida e a morte de Faith, Phoebe sai de São Francisco e atravessa o Atlântico para refazer o caminho da irmã pela Europa. A busca gera revelações complexas e inquietantes sobre família, amor e uma geração inteira de jovens perdida.Uma estreia literária surpreendente e elaborada, prenúncio da habilidade extraordinária de Egan em criar suspenses bem-amarrados, marcados por personagens profundos e nuances de emoção – talento que lhe rendeu em 2011 o Prêmio Pulitzer de Ficção pelo livro A visita cruel do tempo. “Egan é mestre em contar histórias.”Cosmopolitan“Leva o leitor por um um caminho emocional impressionante.”The New Yorker

Com uma trama rica e bem elaborada, Olhe para mim, publicado originalmente em 2001, tem um enredo grandioso e interliga personagens muito diferentes. As duas principais chamam-se Charlotte: a primeira, uma modelo com trinta e tantos anos, que depois de sofrer um terrível acidente de carro tenta reconstruir seu rosto e sua vida. A outra, filha da antiga melhor amiga de colégio da modelo, é uma adolescente imprevisível que vive numa pequena região de Illinois. Um excêntrico professor obcecado pelo passado industrial da cidade onde nasceu, um detetive particular divorciado e infeliz e um estranho enigmático que troca nomes e sotaques enquanto prepara um ataque apolítico contra a sociedade americana são também personagens de um elenco tão diverso quanto numeroso. Ao concluir que é impossível voltar a exercer a profissão de modelo, Charlotte é atraída por uma empresa de internet e expõe sua vida em uma página pessoal por meio de vídeos e relatos pouco fiéis à realidade. A outra Charlotte se envolve com homens mais velhos na tentativa de obter respostas para suas questões adolescentes. Anterior aos livros A visita cruel do tempo e O torreão, também publicados pela Intrínseca, Olhe para mim é uma narrativa sofisticada, que trata de percepção, imagem, mídia, identidade e atrofia das relações na era virtual. Considerada por alguns críticos a obra mais ressonante da autora, Olhe para mim começou a ser escrita em meados da década de 1990 e foi publicada em 2001. O esforço fica visível na trama elaborada e nos personagens muito bem construídos. Livro finalista do National Book Award de 2001. “A habilidade de Egan de se mover entre a sinceridade e a sátira tornam Olhe para mim um livro especial. Sua atenção aos detalhes desperta no leitor um senso de imediatismo pouco usual.” Vogue (EUA) “Uma investigação brilhante da complexa e profunda dinâmica da percepção. Jennifer Egan criou um soberbo elenco de personagens, intrigantes e imprevisíveis, e conta uma história elegantemente estruturada, emocionalmente arrebatadora e cheia de suspense.” Newsday “Sombrio, extremamente ambicioso. Perverso e sarcasticamente engraçado.” Elle (EUA)

Bennie Salazar, ein Musikproduzent mit Visionen, hat Höhen und Tiefen erlebt. Auch seine Assistentin Sasha hat Probleme, von denen er allerdings nichts ahnt. Als Scotty, der Leadgitarrist von Bennies einstiger Punkband, überraschend wieder auftaucht, holt die Vergangenheit beide ein. Jennifer Egan entwirft ein grosses Portrait des kulturellen Umbruchs seit dem Ende der Utopien bis zum digitalen Zeitalter und erzählt in wechselnden Perspektiven von Liebe, Freundschaft und Verlust. DER GRÖSSERE TEIL DER WELT reicht von der Musikszene San Franciscos Ende der Siebziger und dem New York der Neunziger bis zur ökologischen Katastrophe der Zukunft und einem verblüffenden Konzert am Ground Zero. Für ihren Roman erhielt Jennifer Egan den Pulitzer-Preis 2011 und zahlreiche weitere renommierte Auszeichnungen. DER GRÖSSERE TEIL DER WELT wird für das Fernsehen verfilmt, ist in 28 Sprachen übersetzt und international ein Bestseller. Jennifer Egan wurde 1962 in Chicago geboren und wuchs in San Francisco auf. Neben ihren Romanen und Kurzgeschichten schreibt sie für den New Yorker sowie das New York Times Magazine und lehrt an der Columbia University Creative Writing. Ihr Roman LOOK AT ME kam ins Finale für die Nominierung des National Book Awards. Für ihren Roman DER GRÖSSERE TEIL DER WELT wurde sie mit dem Pulitzer-Preis 2011 ausgezeichnet.

Danny é um nova-iorquino viciado em celular que, entre outros estranhos talentos, consegue detectar na própria pele se um lugar tem sinal de internet wi-fi. Quando seu primo Howard, de quem havia se afastado após uma brincadeira de mau gosto na adolescência, o convida para conhecer o castelo europeu que comprou e está reformando com a intenção de transformar em hotel de luxo, Danny acha que é uma boa oportunidade para retomar o contato e ao mesmo tempo fugir da confusão que arrumou em seu último emprego. Ao chegar lá, no entanto, as coisas começam a ficar estranhas. O torreão do castelo, que serviu de fortificação durante muitos séculos e resistiu a diversas tentativas de invasão, ainda é ocupado pela antiga proprietária — uma baronesa sinistra que parece velha demais para estar viva. Uma piscina mal-assombrada e um traiçoeiro labirinto subterrâneo completam a aura de mistério do lugar. Quando o pânico toma conta de Danny, ele descobre que a “realidade” pode ser algo em que não consegue mais acreditar. De maneira inventiva e subvertendo os limites entre fantasia e realidade, Egan constrói uma história que prende o leitor a cada página e nos faz ter vontade de reler o livro muitas vezes.

''Close your eyes and slowly count backward from ten.'' America, the near future. A young spy on a mission logs her observations. The result is an intense thriller, and a minute dissection of the experience of a woman whose beauty is also her camouflage, for whom control relies on submission: a woman whose success - whose life - depends on being seen and not seen. Originally published online via Twitter by @NYerFiction, Jennifer Egan''s first new fiction since the phenomenal success of A Visit From the Goon Squad is a taut, compulsive work of unrelenting genius.

Bennie Salazar, en åldrande före detta punkare som nu blivit skivbolagsmogul, anställer den rastlösa Sasha. Genom olika nedslag i deras liv skildras hur tid och musik formar oss människor. Vi får möta Bennie när han försöker upprätta en relation med sin nioårige son, men också långt tidigare när han blev en del av punkscenen i San Francisco. Sashas gränslösa tillvaro skildras från medelålderns psykologdivan till en vild uppväxt i New York och Neapel. Jennifer Egans kritikerhyllade Huliganerna kommer på besök liknar ingenting annat. Lika inspirerad av Proust som av Sopranos är det en roman som är ett rockalbum, eller ett rockalbum som är en roman. En tragedi, en komedi, en powerpointpresentation. En roman om vår tid, eller om den tid som flytt - eller med TS Eliots ord om att nutiden och dåtiden kanske är närvarande i framtiden. Vilka är de där huliganerna som kommer på besök? Varför vill de träffa oss? Vad har de egentligen att erbjuda? Huliganerna kommer på besök belönades med Pulitzerpriset med motiveringen "en sinnrik undersökning om att bli vuxen och om att bli gammal i en digital tidsålder, en roman som visar på en hängiven nyfikenhet om hur kulturella förändringar sker i warphastighet".

Simplified Chinese edition of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan. This book received numerous awards and accolades including National Bestseller, National Book Critics Circle ward Winner, PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, and A New York Times Book Review Best Book. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. The author reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.

A collection of masterful stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad: “Boldly modulated tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth.... Riveting, vaguely Hitchcockian.... Piercingly tender.... Outstanding" (The New York Times Book Review). These elegant and poignant stories—Egan''s first collection—deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters—models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls—are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. The stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied. With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with the image. There’s a deceptively plain teenaged girl embarking on a dangerous secret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic stranger who changes names and accents as he prepares an apocalyptic blow against American society. As these narratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.

The high ideals and inevitable compromises of the 1960s form the background to this acclaimed novel. Phoebe O''Connor, eighteen years old in the summer of 1978, is too young to know the 1960s, but old enough to feel the anxiety of their influence. She is obsessed by the memory of her charismatic older sister, Faith, a flower child who died in Italy in 1970. Searching for the truth about Faith''s death and life, Phoebe retraces her steps across Europe to the very place where she died. Her search yields more complex and disturbing revelations than she had wished for--about her sister and the generation she emblematized.