New Releases by Lauren Groff

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Groff is one of this country’s most successful and versatile literary figures.”—New York Times “Required reading.”—Los Angeles Times “A knockout.”—Minnesota Star Tribune A stunning, fierce collection from a master of the short story and one of the most important writers of our time Read alone, each story in Lauren Groff’s electric collection is an individual triumph, bold, agile, and packed with power. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region -- from New England to Florida to California -- these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans’ dark and light angels. “In every human there is both an animal and a god wrestling unto death,“ one character tells us. Among those we see caught in this match are a young woman suddenly responsible for her disabled sibling, a hot-tempered high school swimmer in need of an adult, a mother blinded by the loss of her family, and a banking scion endowed with a different kind of inheritance. Motivated by love, impeded by the double edges of other peoples’ good intentions, they try to do the right thing for as long as they can. Precise, surprising, and provocative, anchored by profound insight into human nature, Brawler reveals the repeated, sometimes heartbreaking turning points between love and fear, compassion and violence, reason and instinct, altruism and what it takes to survive.

È inverno. La ragazza corre nella foresta, in fuga da un insediamento di coloni inglesi nel Nuovo Mondo, in Virginia. Nata serva in Inghilterra, si è sempre occupata della piccola Bess, una bambina malata che abbandona con dolore quando un'epidemia devasta la piccola comunità in cui vivono. Priva di armi, di utensili, ignara di tutto e pronta a imparare tutto da sola, sperimentando, si ciba di ciò che raccoglie e resiste al gelo; impara a pescare e cacciare; governa il fuoco; si ammala ma poi guarisce; prima sopravvive e basta, poi vive in comunione con le terre selvagge, secondo un patto feroce che a volte rischia di sopraffarla ma in cui, tenace e avida di vita, ha a lungo la meglio. Tra orsi, lupi, nativi e misteriose creature erranti come lei, la ragazza attraverserà a modo suo tutte le tappe di una vita: la paura, il sesso, la libertà, la solitudine, fino alla fine.

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor. “There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that “buzz with their own strange logic.” A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session. Daring and resonant, the stories in this volume invite in Groff “a feeling that both the author and I were simultaneously discovering something together.” The Best American Short Stories 2024 includes JAMEL BRINKLEY • ALEXANDRA CHANG • LAURIE COLWIN • MOLLY DEKTAR • TAISIA KITAISKAIA • DANIEL MASON • JIM SHEPARD • AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI • PAUL YOON • and others

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, LA TIMES, SLATE, HARPER'S BAZAAR and others “Part historical, part horror, part breathless thriller, part wilderness survival tale, The Vaster Wilds is a story about the lengths to which we will go to stay alive."—NPR staff pick “Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel."—Los Angeles Times “Glorious…surroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page." —Boston Globe A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.

En modern Robinson Kruse - med fantastiskt språk Hon har aldrig kallats något annat än flickan. Men hon är den enda som lyckats ta sig levande ur fortet där pesten härjar och soldater stupat bredvid gentlemän, högburna damer och den enda som någonsin betytt något för henne. Hon springer rakt ut i den stora vildmarken som denna okända kontinent är, utan något mer än minnet av en karta hon sett över axeln på en herre. Hon har inget mer än sin livsvilja, sitt förnuft och rädsla till dess att hon lärt sig vad markerna kan ge i skydd och föda. Hon är ingen förrän hon blir en del av naturen. Den vilda flykten är inte bara en hisnande äventyrshistoria i underskön språkdräkt. Det är också en fabel om kolonialismen som ställer den nu klimataktuella frågan: Kommer vi att kunna anpassa oss tillräckligt snabbt för att rädda oss själva på den här planeten? Boken är en fristående uppföljare till Matrix, och andra boken av tre som Groff skriver för att ge nytt perspektiv på kvinnors historia. Den utspelar sig under vintern 1609-1610 i delstaten Virginia. Lauren Groff är trefaldig National Book Award-finalist och författare till flera New York Times-bästsäljare, varav Ödet och ursinnet samt Matrix översatts till svenska. Hon har vunnit The Story Prize, ABA Indies Choice Award, Franska Grand Prix de l Héroïne och Joyce Carol Oates-priset samt varit finalist i National Book Critics Circle Award och utnämnts till en av sin generations bästa författare av tidskriften Granta. Hon medverkar regelbundet i exempelvis The New Yorker och hennes böcker finns översatta till fler än 35 språk. "Fantastiskt spännande ... rusar fram med farten hos de allra bästa äventyrsberättelserna." The Telegraph (UK) "Groff har skrivit ett nytt evangelium." The Atlantic "Fint bearbetad prosa, med en poetens öga för bildspråk och en visionär förmåga som påminner om Matrix." The Guardian

«El drama de monjas medievales que no sabías que necesitabas» (Vulture): un retrato de la indomable María de Francia, por la autora que deslumbró a Barack Obama y a la crítica mundial, ganadora de los premios Paul Bowles, PEN/O. Henry y Pushcart. Uno de los mejores libros del año según The Times Descendiente de una larga dinastía de guerreras y cruzadas, Marie es demasiado ruda y rebelde para la vida palaciega, por lo que acaba siendo expulsada de la corte y enviada a los lodazales de Inglaterra para que asuma el rol de priora de una abadía venida a menos. Al llegar, encuentra un panorama desolador donde reinan la inanición y el chismorreo. Marie añora la comodidad de la corte francesa, y también a su amante secreta, Cecily. Sin embargo, al poco tiempo se dará cuenta de que sus nuevas obligaciones le otorgan más poder del que jamás habría imaginado, un acceso a los conocimientos sobre plantas medicinales y su propio sello de lacre para la correspondencia, que le permitirá cartearse confidencialmente con quien quiera. Tras Florida, finalista del National Book Award, Lauren Groff vuelve a sorprendernos con el retrato de María de Francia, un personaje fascinante y poco conocido de la historia que se ha convertido en icono femenino. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and more! “A relentless exhibition of Groff’s freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell .” – USA Today “An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable.” – O, The Oprah Magazine “Thrilling and heartbreaking.” –Time Magazine “[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her.” –New York Times One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies. Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie’s vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

Amerika, rond 1600. Een meisje heeft besloten om niet te sterven in een huis waar een pokkenepidemie en de honger hebben toegeslagen. Ze vlucht de wildernis in en leert te overleven en de wereld anders te interprteren.

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.

Tout n'est pas si facile dans "l'Etat ensoleillé " qu'est la Floride. Derrière les images de carte postale se cachent des situations souvent ambigües comme l'attestent les nouvelles de ce recueil. On y croise une famille dont la vie se voit brutalement perturbée par la présence hypothétique d'une panthère, une femme qui, durant une tempête, reçoit la visite de fantômes venus de son passé, deux petites filles abandonnées sur une île qui doivent réinventer leur vie à l'état sauvage, une écrivaine floridienne de passage en Normandie pour écrire sur Maupassant, ou encore une femme qui décide soudain de changer de vie et de devenir vagabonde... La faune et la flore, les ouragans déchaînés propres à la Floride influent sur le destin de tous ces personnages. Mais Lauren Groff semble nous dire ceci : les menaces les plus dangereuses, et les perturbations les plus puissantes viennent rarement de l'extérieur, mais des recoins les plus isolés de notre intimité.

«Årets mest omtalte roman.» The Guardian «Min favorittbok.» Barack Obama Hver historie har to sider. Hvert parforhold har to ståsted. Noen ganger er ikke nøkkelen til et lykkelig ekteskap ærlighet, men dets hemmeligheter. Av og til kommer det en bok med sprengkraft nok til å bli årets mest omtalte bok. Dette er en slik sjelden roman. Kritikerrost, prisbelønt og publikumsfavoritt. En historie med voldsomt driv, poetisk og vakkert skrevet. Et mesterverk som beveger, overrasker og provoser. En roman skrevet fra to synsvinkler om kjærlighet, makt og skaperkraft.

A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE “Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers – with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout.” —The New York Times Book Review (cover review) From the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Florida, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds: an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.

Emily Gerard is placed into a rehabilitation center after being diagnosed with anorexia. Shocking secrets arise and new friends are made as Emily goes down the long, difficult journey of recovery.

"Richly conceived, finely detailed stories . . . of smart, daring women who are in search of, in thrall to, or disillusioned by love" ( Booklist). "Nine wildly unique, exquisitely symphonic tales, full of beauty, tragedy, and the sudden horror of shocking images—this is Groff's gift to readers. And what a gift it is." — Library Journal From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling novel Fates and Furies, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman. "[An] innovative and beautifully written collection that covers a wide swath of humanity, from east coast resort towns, to the early twentieth century flu epidemic, to WWII Europe." — Publishers Weekly "Tales of ordinary transformations and everyday occurrences are made magical in a collection of nine stories by Groff. . . . Groff's skill makes commonplace occurrences seem compelling." — Kirkus Reviews

"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willie's entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father's identity lies somewhere in her family's history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town's past -- some sinister, all fascinating -- rise up around her to tell their side of the story. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. The Monsters of Templeton is a fresh, virtuoso performance that has placed Lauren Groff among the best writers of today.

" Le jour où je revins à Templeton, en pleine disgrâce, le cadavre d'un monstre mesurant près de seize mètres émergea à la surface du lac Glimmerglass ". Ainsi s'ouvre Les Monstres de Templeton, un roman qui balaie deux siècles d'histoire : celle d'une jeune fille à la recherche de son père, et celle d'un village, ancrée dans l'Amérique profonde, au milieu des légendes et des secrets de famille. A la suite d'une déconvenue amoureuse, Willie Upton frappe à la porte de la vieille demeure où vit encore sa mère, Vivienne, ancienne hippie devenue baptiste fervente sur le tard... Au lieu du réconfort qu'elle vient y chercher, Willie trouve le village sens dessus dessous, chamboulé par l'apparition d'un animal démesuré, et découvre un terrible mensonge : son père existe bel et bien, elle n'est pas le fruit hasardeux des amours libres de sa mère, mais bien la fille d'un homme connu et reconnu dans Templeton. Lancée dans une enquête à rebondissements pour retrouver son père, elle part sur la trace de ses ancêtres et reconstitue la fabuleuse généalogie qui mène à son histoire.