New Releases by Lionel Shriver

In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant—who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be. Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city program that would pay her to take in a migrant as a boarder. Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is skeptical. A classic live-at-home Gen Zer with no interest in adulthood, Nico resents any interruption of his “hovercraft repose.” As the months go by, Martine endears herself to both Nico’s sisters, while finding her way into Gloria’s heart and even, briefly, Nico’s. But as Martine’s disturbingly dodgy compatriots begin to show up, Nico conceives a dark twin hostile to both his mother’s altruism and the “migrant crisis” in general—and turns out to be anything but a reliable narrator himself. Based loosely on a program a New York City mayor floated but did not initiate, A Better Life is Lionel Shriver at her best: smart, funny, and sensitive to the moral nuances of perhaps the most divisive issue of our times.

Plus provocatrice et caustique que jamais, Lionel Shriver s''inspire de l''actualité pour livrer la satire aussi jubilatoire que glaçante d''une Amérique gangrenée par la bien-pensance, le politiquement correct et la cancel culture. Liste des mots interdits : Stupide, idiot, bête, haut potentiel, méritocratie, etc., etc. Sont désormais proscrits : Les devoirs, les tests, les notes, les examens. Les entretiens d''embauche. Les bilans de compétences. Conséquences : Enfants, parents, voisins, collègues, amis, amants, époux sont invités à se dénoncer les uns les autres. Tout contrevenant s''expose à un avertissement, une amende, voire à une peine de prison. Professeure à l''université, Pearson se demande encore comment les États-Unis en sont arrivés là. Depuis que le mouvement pour la Parité mentale a pris le pouvoir, les enfants n''apprennent plus à lire, le niveau des étudiants a chuté, les dîners où l''on débattait à bâtons rompus sont devenus sinistres. Heureusement, il lui reste sa meilleure amie, Emory, pour ironiser sur la situation. Les deux femmes se connaissent depuis l''adolescence, la confiance entre elles est totale. Ou du moins Pearson le croit-elle...

La mejor tragicomedia política de nuestros tiempos. En un 2011 no del todo inconcebible, la sociedad ha abrazado la Paridad Mental, una ideología que proclama la igualdad intelectual absoluta y amenaza con redefinir la esencia misma de la inteligencia. Bajo sus nuevos postulados, palabras como listo o tonto se convierten en tabú, y combatir la discriminación de las mentes menos favorecidas pasa a ser el caballo de batalla de una renovada lucha por los derechos civiles. Las universidades censuran las lecturas obligatorias para evitar cualquier sugerencia de superioridad o inferioridad mental, y hasta clásicos como El idiota de Dostoievski se consideran problemáticos solo por lo que parecen insinuar sus títulos. Pearson Converse, profesora universitaria de Literatura, observa con creciente escepticismo esta tremenda deriva hacia la homogeneidad intelectual y la restricción del lenguaje, y el día que su hijo Darwin es amonestado en el colegio por tachar de «estúpida» la camiseta de un compañero, dice basta. Con una aversión atroz a cualquier tipo de dogma desde que los testigos de Jehová marcaran su infancia, Pearson no está dispuesta a que las nuevas tesis de la Paridad Mental aplasten el espíritu de sus hijos ni el de sus alumnos. Cuando sus controvertidas decisiones docentes y su empeño por preservar la libertad de pensamiento en un mundo que amenaza con apisonar todas las diferencias la sitúen en el centro de una tormenta ideológica, Pearson se refugiará en su mejor amiga, Emory, con la que puede despacharse a gusto y compartir sus ideas socialmente reprochables sobre el movimiento paritario. O eso cree... Enfrentada a la censura, el ostracismo de sus colegas e incluso a la intervención de los servicios sociales, Pearson deberá encontrar la mejor estrategia para alzar su voz en una sociedad en la que la disidencia y la meritocracia intelectual se castigan como una vieja herejía. Con una prosa incisiva y su sarcasmo marca de la casa, Shriver vuelve a la carga con esta lúcida e inquietante novela sobre un presente y un futuro en los que la lucha por mantener la integridad se hace más necesaria que nunca. Una distopía divertidísima, mordaz y aterradoramente verosímil.

Una novela feroz y explosiva, repleta de temas candentes, que toma el culto a la forma física como mirador desde el que observar la sociedad americana. Alérgica a toda clase de actividades grupales, Serenata Terpsichore, la protagonista de esta novela, es una artista de voz en off que ha dedicado su vida a hacer ejercicio físico, a correr, a nadar, a montar en bicicleta. Ahora, al cumplir sesenta, tanta actividad le pasa una dolorosa factura en forma de artrosis. Por su parte, Remington Alabaster, su siempre sedentario marido, acaba de ser prejubilado a la fuerza del Departamento de Transportes de Albany tras un confuso enfrentamiento con su nueva jefa, y decide escoger precisamente ese momento para descubrir las bondades de la gimnasia y correr una maratón. Tras apuntarse a la fiebre del fitness, cada vez más presente en el mundo moderno, el una vez moderado Remington se convierte en un narcisista insufrible, y contrata a una estricta (y seductora) entrenadora personal, junto a la que participará en competiciones cada vez más exigentes: después de la maratón, medio Mettleman, el triatlón completo... Tan furiosa como preocupada, Serenata descubrirá que no conviene subestimar la tenacidad de un prejubilado con mucho tiempo libre que se empeña en desafiar a la edad. Astuta y penetrante, en El movimiento del cuerpo a través del espacio la acidez de Lionel Shriver tiene un nuevo objetivo: el culto a la forma física, la entrega desmedida al ejercicio, que sirve de mirador desde el que observar tendencias, fallos y manías de la sociedad norteamericana de nuestros días, con sus tensiones culturales y raciales. Una novela feroz y explosiva, repleta de temas candentes (los sinsabores del envejecimiento, la masculinidad en crisis, las tensiones en la pareja, la corrección política), cuya mirada extremadamente aguda no elude ni una polémica, ni deja un mito sin desmontar.

Lionel Shriver met toute son ironie, son acuité et sa tendresse dans cette nouvelle bombe de provocation. Hilarante et touchante, une œuvre explosive doublée d''une réflexion mordante sur notre rapport à la vieillesse et sur l''art délicat de préparer sa sortie. Pendant dix ans, Kay a assisté son père atteint de la maladie d''Alzheimer. À la mort de ce dernier, le soulagement l''emporte sur la tristesse et une question surgit : comment gérer sa propre fin de vie ? Une discussion avec son mari Cyril, quelques verres de vin et les voici qui en viennent à nouer un pacte. Certes, ils n''ont que cinquante ans, sont en bonne santé et comptent bien profiter encore de leurs proches, mais pas question de faire peser sur ceux-ci et sur la société leur inéluctable déliquescence. C''est décidé, le jour de leurs quatre-vingts ans, Kay et Cyril partiront ensemble. Le temps passe et voici qu''arrive la date fatidique. Une date, douze possibilités et une conclusion : dans la vie, tout est à prendre ou à laisser...

“A rare voice, someone who challenges orthodoxies in the way that many journalists and public intellectuals claim to do but don’t. It is bracing to spend time in the company of such a smart, plain-spoken and unpredictable person.”—Wall Street Journal A striking collection of essays from the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Should We Stay or Should We Go, So Much for That, and The Post-Birthday World. Novelist, cultural observer, and social satirist Lionel Shriver is among the sharpest talents of our age. A writer who embraces “under-expressed, unpopular or downright dangerous” points of view, she filets cherished shibboleths and the conformity of thought and attitude that has overtaken us. Bringing together thirty-five works curated from her many columns, features, essays, and op-eds for the likes of the Spectator, the Guardian, the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, speeches and reviews, and some unpublished pieces, Abominations reveals Shriver at her most iconoclastic and personal. Relentlessly skeptical, cutting, and contrarian, this collection showcases Shriver’s piquant opinions on a wide range of topics, including religion, politics, illness, mortality, family and friends, tennis, gender, immigration, consumerism, health care, and taxes. In her characteristically frank manner, Shriver shrewdly skewers the concept of language “crimes,” while chafing at arbitrary limitations on speech and literature that crimp artistic expression and threaten intellectual freedom. Many an essay in Abominations reflects sentiments that have “brought hell and damnation down on my head,” as she cheerfully explains, and have threatened her with “cancellation” more than once. Throughout, Shriver offers insights on her novels and explores the perks and pitfalls of becoming a successful artist. In revisiting old pieces and rejected essays, Shriver updates and expands her thinking. “Enlightened” progressive readers will find plenty to challenge here. But they may find, to their surprise, insights with which they agree. A timely synthesis of Shriver''s expansive work, Abominations reveals this provocative, talented writer at her most assured.

When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can’t cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer’s had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one’s own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal. To spare themselves and their loved ones such a humiliating and protracted decline, they should agree to commit suicide together once they’ve both turned eighty. When their deal is sealed, the spouses are blithely looking forward to another three decades together. But then they turn eighty. By turns hilarious and touching, playful and grave, Should We Stay or Should We Go portrays twelve parallel universes, each exploring a possible future for Kay and Cyril. Were they to cut life artificially short, what would they miss out on? Something terrific? Or something terrible? Might they end up in a home? A fabulous luxury retirement village, or a Cuckoo’s Nest sort of home? Might being demented end up being rather fun? What future for humanity awaits—the end of civilization, or a Valhalla of peace and prosperity? What if cryogenics were really to work? What if scientists finally cure aging? Both timely and timeless, Lionel Shriver addresses serious themes—the compromises of longevity, the challenge of living a long life and still going out in style—with an uncannily light touch. Weaving in a host of contemporary issues, from Brexit and mass migration to the coronavirus, Shriver has pulled off a rollicking page-turner in which we never have to mourn perished characters, because they’ll be alive and kicking in the very next chapter.

Em um futuro próximo e devastador, quatro gerações de uma família norte-americana outrora próspera sofrem as consequências de crises globais assustadoramente reais. Uma guerra fria de escala mundial reestrutura a ordem socioeconômica do planeta, criando novos eixos de poder. A União Europeia se desfaz, a China enfim é alçada ao posto de maior potência global e o longo período de prosperidade dos Estados Unidos chega ao fim. Da noite para o dia, o dólar despenca e, além do valor, perde também seu prestígio: uma nova moeda internacional, o bancor, chega para substituí-lo. Florence Mandible sofre as consequências desse cenário como uma típica representante da classe média. Uma cabeça de repolho passa a custar 20 dólares, o racionamento de água torna-se padrão e o ritual matinal já não inclui mais café – a mudança climática arruinou as safras – nem jornais, já que todos deixaram de existir. Sem escolha a não ser acolher os familiares sob seu teto – parentes que, assim como ela, dependem da herança do saudável patriarca da família, Douglas Mandible, de 97 anos –, Florence logo se torna responsável pela administração de um ecossistema familiar muito frágil, suscetível às mais dramáticas pulsões da natureza humana – como furto, alcoolismo e abandono de incapazes. Em A família Mandible: 2029 – 2047, Shriver narra os percalços de um típico clã norte-americano moderno e, como a guia experiente de um safári humano, conduz o leitor por detalhes muito íntimos da psique de seus personagens. Ambientada em um futuro que já se vê dobrando a esquina, a saga dos Mandible é o retrato de um apocalipse menos catastrófico, mas igualmente perturbador: a completa ruína financeira.

Jillian, un’insegnante con la passione per il tennis e le stravaganti creazioni artistiche, sceglie come regalo di nozze per il suo migliore amico una curiosa installazione, senza sospettare il complotto ordito dalla sposa. Due genitori esasperati mettono alla porta il figlio trentenne, con l’unico risultato di scatenare una campagna mediatica a sostegno dei diseredati. Un postino indolente sottrae una lettera e risponde alla donna che l’ha spedita, intrecciando con lei un’improbabile relazione. Una vedova di mezza età si batte per difendere il suo giardino dall’invadente sicomoro del vicino. Un quarantenne americano trapiantato a Londra, divorziato e in bolletta, aspetta il momento meno opportuno per discutere di soldi con il padre. C’è un unico tema, quello del «possesso» di beni immobili o di consumo, a legare le storie lunghe o brevi di questa irriverente raccolta, che esplora con arguzia i tanti modi in cui il desiderio di avere o, peggio, l’accumulo compulsivo possono spingerci a perdere di vista il senso vero delle cose. In tutto dodici avventure del quotidiano – ambientate tra l’America, il Kenya e il Regno Unito, in grado di cogliere le piccole ironie della vita – che confermano una volta di più la voce inconfondibile di Lionel Shriver.

Lionel Shriver aplica su sagaz, irónica y feroz mirada al formato breve. Su primera e imprescindible colección de cuentos. Un regalo de boda muy personal se convierte en una fuente de disputas; un árbol enfrenta a dos vecinos, que se verán arrastrados por una hostilidad creciente; un treintañero se resiste a abandonar el hogar familiar; un cartero espía las cartas que reparte; una cooperante en Kenia vive una aventura inesperada; un padre y un hijo se ven envueltos en una situación complicada en un aeropuerto; una pareja se enreda en una trifulca por la compra de una casa; un fugado de la justicia se harta del paraíso en el que se ha escondido; dos mujeres extranjeras se cruzan en Belfast en pleno conflicto... Los variopintos personajes que pueblan los cuentos de Lionel Shriver viven situaciones tensas provocadas por la fijación por la propiedad. Por el empeño de poseer bienes inmobiliarios, objetos o personas. Como es habitual en la autora, las situaciones cotidianas pueden desbordarse en cualquier momento, y las personas en apariencia más cabales son perfectamente capaces de perder los papeles hasta límites insospechados. Un abanico de parejas, padres e hijos, vecinos y familias se ven sometidos a una montaña rusa de engaños, obsesiones, miedos, deseos y desencuentros. Con su sagacidad –y afilado estilete– de costumbre, Shriver escruta y radiografía la sociedad contemporánea en estos cuentos que pueden ser al mismo tiempo desoladores y descacharrantes, hirientes y poéticos, virulentos y profundos. En la brevedad del relato la autora no pierde ni un ápice de su mordiente: la condensa en un elixir irresistible.

In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life—an aging husband’s sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable. After an ignominious early retirement, Remington announces to his wife Serenata that he’s decided to run a marathon. This from a sedentary man in his sixties who’s never done a lick of exercise in his life. His wife can’t help but observe that his ambition is “hopelessly trite.” A loner, Serenata disdains mass group activities of any sort. Besides, his timing is cruel. Serenata has long been the couple’s exercise freak, but by age sixty, her private fitness regimes have destroyed her knees, and she’ll soon face debilitating surgery. Yes, becoming more active would be good for Remington’s heart, but then why not just go for a walk? Without several thousand of your closest friends? As Remington joins the cult of fitness that increasingly consumes the Western world, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. Ignoring all his other obligations, he engages a saucy, sexy personal trainer named Bambi, who treats Serenata with contempt. When Remington sets his sights on the legendarily grueling triathlon, MettleMan, Serenata is sure he’ll end up injured or dead. And even if he does survive, their marriage may not. The Motion of the Body Through Space is vintage Lionel Shriver written with psychological insight, a rich cast of characters, lots of verve and petulance, an astute reading of contemporary culture, and an emotionally resonant ending.

DOKONALÝ PSYCHOLOGICKÝ THRILLER, KRUTÝ A DOJEMNÝ ZÁROVEŇ... Před dvěma lety Kevin, syn Evy Khatchadourianové, zavraždil sedm svých spolužáků ze střední školy, zaměstnance školní jídelny a oblíbenou učitelku angličtiny. V době činu mu bylo teprve patnáct let, takže dostal velmi mírný trest, který si nyní odpykává ve vězení pro mladistvé na severu státu New York. Eva v dopisech bývalému manželovi Franklinovi líčí historii Kevinova dětství a dospívání. V obavách, že synovu povahu ovlivnila vlastními omyly a nedostatky, se zpovídá ze svých rozpolcených pocitů, vztahu k mateřství a rovněž ke Kevinovi samotnému. Přitom se ptá, jak velký podíl má na celé tragédii ona sama. Lionel Shriver předkládá čtenáři naléhavý, strhující a zneklidňující příběh hrůzného masakru, klade znepokojivé a závažné otázky, na které neexistují jednoduché odpovědi, a v závěru svého strhujícího psychologického thrilleru zasadí čtenáři jednu nečekanou ránu. ________ „Lionel Shriver má přesně spočítané riziko, s nímž příběh vystavěla. A její risk se vyplácí, když se jí daří precizně zahrát na strunu velmi křehké intimity.“ – Wall Street Journal

In ''Bezit'' van Lionel Shriver maakt een vrouw een zeer persoonlijk huwelijkscadeau voor haar beste vriend – om vervolgens te ontdekken dat diens jaloerse verloofde haar uit hun leven wil bannen. Een man van middelbare leeftijd die onder het juk van zijn vader leeft, komt erachter dat de veiligheidscontrole op het vliegveld niet de beste plek is om eindelijk eens op je strepen te gaan staan. De ooit hartstochtelijke relatie van een artistiek stel uit Brooklyn wordt verwoest door hun aankoop van een bouwvallig huis. Worden eigendomsverhoudingen de grote politieke en maatschappelijke kwestie van de eenentwintigste eeuw? Bestsellerauteur Shrivers track record als haarscherpe, visionaire schrijver doet vermoeden van wel.

A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Intermingling settings in America and Britain, Lionel Shriver’s first collection explores property in both senses of the word: real estate and stuff. These pieces illustrate how our possessions act as proxies for ourselves, and how tussles over ownership articulate the power dynamics of our relationships. In Lionel Shriver’s world, we may possess people and objects and places, but in turn they possess us.

" Nous ne sommes qu''à douze ans du futur tel que nous le présente Lionel Shriver. Son nouveau roman, satirique et ébouriffant d''intelligence, est certes classique, en ceci qu''il sert de véhicule à une enquête politique et sociale, mais n''en reste pas moins extrêmement troublant. " The New York Times Nous sommes en 2029, les États-Unis traversent une crise sans précédent. Les désastres écologiques successifs ont vidé le pays de ses ressources naturelles. La dette nationale a explosé, la Banque centrale n''arrive plus à produire assez de billets, le dollar dévisse, remplacé sur les marchés internationaux par une devise sino-russe. Jadis superpuissance, les États-Unis sont devenus un État paria, au grand bonheur de Poutine, bien entendu toujours au pouvoir. Comme toutes les familles américaines, les Mandible tirent le diable par la queue. Un chou se négocie à quarante dollars, la viande n''est plus qu''un lointain souvenir, l''eau se fait rare, même le papier-toilette est rationné. Ils tiennent encore, ont toujours un toit sur la tête, ça pourrait être pire... C''est alors que le Président déclare le pays en faillite. L''or des particuliers est réquisitionné, salaires et pensions sont gelés, les comptes sont vidés. Soudain, pour les Mandible, il ne s''agit plus de débrouillardise mais bien de survie. Combien de temps avant que la solidarité ne laisse place à la colère, à la haine ? Combien de temps avant que la famille ne s''écroule, comme le reste du monde qui l''entoure ?

Una distopía inquietante y llena de salvaje ironía sobre el hundimiento del dólar y el desmoronamiento de Estados Unidos, contada a través de una familia a la que se le acaba el sueño americano. Estados Unidos, 2029. Un siglo después, ha vuelto a suceder. El dólar se desploma, la inflación se dispara, el país se dirige hacia la bancarrota. Y la familia Mandible, protagonista de esta sagaz y feroz novela distópica que, llevándonos al futuro, nos habla de realidades muy reconocibles, va a padecer las consecuencias. Prósperos y sofisticados, aunque también disfuncionales, los Mandible esperan la herencia del nonagenario patriarca. Pero como fallece en plena crisis, la lluvia de millones con la que contaban hijos y nietos se disipa en el aire. Y los miembros de esta familia de clase alta se ven envueltos en situaciones para ellos inauditas: Carter, incapaz de afrontar el pago de la residencia de su senil madrastra, se ve obligado a acogerla en su casa; Avery se indigna porque ya no puede permitirse comprar aceite de oliva; su hermana Florence tiene que alojar a familiares que se han quedado sin hogar en su pequeño apartamento; a Nollie, escritora que ha vivido felizmente expatriada en París, no le queda más remedio que regresar a un país que le resulta irreconocible... Sólo la generación más joven, representada por el adolescente Willing, bicho raro y economista autodidacta, es capaz de buscar salidas imaginativas a la crisis. Lionel Shriver, con su colmillo retorcido y su mala baba marca de la casa, mueve con habilidad a unos personajes desbordados por la situación, a los que retrata con mirada penetrante y humor salvaje. Y nos presenta unos Estados Unidos en los que el sueño americano muestra su lado más oscuro: las vallas fronterizas ya no sirven para evitar que entren inmigrantes, sino para que los ciudadanos no escapen; algún estado declara su independencia; el presidente –de nombre latino– decide crear una nueva moneda para sustituir al desmoronado dólar...

With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale. It is not science fiction. In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the “almighty dollar” plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency, the “bancor.” In retaliation, the president declares that America will default on its loans. “Deadbeat Nation” being unable to borrow, the government prints money to cover its bills. What little remains to savers is rapidly eaten away by runaway inflation. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their ninety-seven-year-old patriarch dies. Once the inheritance turns to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also—as the U.S. economy spirals into dysfunction—the challenge of sheer survival. Recently affluent, Avery is petulant that she can’t buy olive oil, while her sister, Florence, absorbs strays into her cramped household. An expat author, their aunt, Nollie, returns from abroad at seventy-three to a country that’s unrecognizable. Her brother, Carter, fumes at caring for their demented stepmother, now that an assisted living facility isn’t affordable. Only Florence’s oddball teenage son, Willing, an economics autodidact, will save this formerly august American family from the streets. The Mandibles is about money. Thus it is necessarily about bitterness, rivalry, and selfishness—but also about surreal generosity, sacrifice, and transformative adaptation to changing circumstances.

Per festeggiare i 200 anni della nascita di Charlotte Brontë, Tracy Chevalier ha chiesto alle migliori autrici in lingua inglese di scrivere una storia ispirata alla celebre battuta di Jane Eyre: «L’ho sposato, lettore mio». Questo racconto fa parte della raccolta dedicata a Charlotte Brontë: L’ho sposato, lettore mio a cura di TRACY CHEVALIER

Pandora é uma empreendedora bem-sucedida que vive em Iowa com o marido, Fletcher, um homem de temperamento irritadiço, que nunca consegue relaxar. Edison, irmão de Pandora, antes um conhecido pianista de jazz em Nova York, está completamente falido, sem ter onde morar. Contrariando o marido, Pandora envia uma passagem aérea para o irmão e abre sua casa para hospedá-lo. Depois de quatro anos sem se encontrarem, ela quase não o reconhece quando vai buscá-lo no aeroporto e depara com um homem mais de cem quilos acima do peso. Em casa, os hábitos desleixados de Edison criam um enorme desconforto para Fletcher, até que Pandora decide se comprometer com o emagrecimento do irmão e abdica de tudo para ajudá-lo./span Construído com a inteligência e a força impactante de Lionel Shriver, Grande irmão é um livro sobre um assunto ao mesmo tempo social e dolorosamente íntimo. Shriver mostra, sem rodeios, como a obesidade grave pode atingir uma família de modo devastador e nos faz questionar se é possível proteger as pessoas que amamos delas mesmas. “Grande irmão tem a força necessária para dominar seus leitores. Uma história de peso que causa grande impacto.” The New York Times “Shriver explora de forma brilhante a força dos laços fraternos em contraste com as amarras muitas vezes frágeis do casamento.” Booklist

Big Brother is a striking novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity from Lionel Shriver, the acclaimed author the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. For Pandora, cooking is a form of love. Alas, her husband, Fletcher, a self-employed high-end cabinetmaker, now spurns the “toxic” dishes that he’d savored through their courtship, and spends hours each day to manic cycling. Then, when Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at the airport, she doesn’t recognize him. In the years since they’ve seen one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? After Edison has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: It’s him or me. Rich with Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat: an issue both social and excruciatingly personal. It asks just how much sacrifice we''ll make to save single members of our families, and whether it''s ever possible to save loved ones from themselves.

Shep Knacker sempre economizou para a “Outra Vida”: um retiro idílico no Terceiro Mundo, onde um modesto pé-de-meia poderia durar para sempre. Os engarrafamentos de Nova York seriam substituídos por tempo para “falar, pensar, ver e ser” – e por horas de sono suficientes. Quando ele vende sua empresa de consertos domésticos por um milhão de dólares, parece que seu sonho finalmente será realizado. Ainda que Glynis, com quem é casado há 26 anos, sempre arrume desculpas e diga que nunca é o momento certo para partirem. Cansado de trabalhar como um peão para o idiota que comprou sua companhia, Shep anuncia que está de mudança para uma ilha na Tanzânia, com ou sem a esposa. Recém-chegada de uma consulta médica, Glynis também tem um anúncio a fazer: Shep não pode ir a lugar algum. Ela está doente e precisa desesperadamente de seu plano de saúde. Mas o convênio cobre apenas parte das despesas incrivelmente altas do tratamento, e o pé-de-meia de Shep para a Outra Vida parece se desfazer a cada dia. Um romance brutalmente honesto, Tempo é dinheiro acompanha as transformações de um casamento que é posto à prova ao mesmo tempo que se fortalece com as exigências de uma doença grave, e se revela uma inesperada oportunidade para a ternura, a renovação da intimidade e o humor ácido. Em uma pesada crítica aos sistemas de saúde, Lionel Shriver se atreve a fazer a temida pergunta: quanto custa a vida de uma pessoa?

''We moeten het even over Kevin hebben'' van Lionel Shriver is het aangrijpende relaas van de zoektocht van een moeder naar de beweegredenen van haar zoon, die een gruwelijke misdaad heeft gepleegd. Is het haar schuld, omdat ze niet genoeg of misschien zelfs wel helemaal niet van hem hield? Of is het de schuld van zijn vader, die zijn zoon nooit heeft willen zien zoals hij werkelijk was? Lionel Shriver is schrijver van onder andere ''De Mandibles'', ''De weg van de meeste weerstand'' en ''Tot de dood ons scheidt''. ''We moeten het even over Kevin hebben'' was een internationale bestseller, ontving de Orange Prize for Fiction en werd in 2011 verfilmd met Tilda Swinton in de hoofdrol.

À la veille de ses seize ans, Kevin Khatchadourian a tué sept de ses camarades de lycée, un employé de la cafétéria et un professeur. Dans des lettres adressées au père dont elle est séparée, Eva, sa mère, retrace l''itinéraire meurtrier de Kevin. Elle se souvient qu''elle a eu du mal à sacrifier sa brillante carrière pour devenir mère. Qu''elle ne s''est jamais faite aux contraintes de la maternité. Que dès la naissance elle s''est heurtée à un enfant difficile. Que l''arrivée de Celia, petite sœur fragile et affectueuse, n''a fait que creuser le fossé entre mère et fils. Qu''elle aura passé des années à scruter les agissements de Kevin sans voir que son ambivalence envers lui n''avait d''égale que la cruauté et la malveillance du rejeton. Et, quand le pire survient, Eva veut comprendre : qu''est-ce qui a poussé Kevin à commettre ce massacre ? Et quelle est sa propre part de responsabilité ? Orange Prize 2005

Traditional Chinese edition of We Need to Talk About Kevin, the 2005 Orange prize novel. The movie was nominated for major awards in many renowned world film festivals including the SAG and Golden Globe. The story is about a dysfunctional relationship between a mother and her son Kevin who went on a killing spree in high school. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

From the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist SO MUCH FOR THAT comes a part parable, part adventure story about a group of foreign correspondents reporting from a nonexistent peninsula of Portugal in the mid-1990s. ''A wondrously fanciful plot, vividly drawn characters, clever and cynical dialogue, anda comically brilliant and verisimilar imagined land ...The New Republic is simply terrific.'' BOOKLIST Ostracised as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. A disgruntled New York corporate lawyer, he''s more than ready to leave his lucrative career for the excitement and uncertainty of journalism. When he''s offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognises the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he''s been sent toreplace, Barrington Saddler, as exactly the outsized character he longs to emulate. Infuriatingly, all his fellow journalists cannot stop talking about their beloved ''Bear'', who is no longer lighting up their work lives. Yet all is not as it appears.''The Daring Soldiers of Barba'' (the SOB) have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for a province so dismal, backward and windblown that you couldn''t give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington missing, do terrorist incidents claimed by the SOB suddenly dry up? Part parable, part adventure story, The New Republic addresses weighty issues like terrorism with the deft, tongue-in-cheek touch that is vintage Shriver. It also presses the more intimate question: What makes particular people so magnetic, while the rest of us inspire a shrug? What''s their secret? And in the end, who has the better life - the admired or the admirer?

The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them remains terrifyingly prescient. Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much–adored teacher in a school shooting two days before his sixteenth birthday. Neither nature nor nurture exclusively shapes a child''s character. But Eva was always uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood. Did her internalized dislike for her own son shape him into the killer he’s become? How much is her fault? Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with Kevin’s horrific rampage, all in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. A piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as “impossible to put down,” is a stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family.

“Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters… A highly engrossing novel.” — San Francisco Chronicle From New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver (The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin), comes a searing, deeply humane novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family’s struggle to come to terms with disease, dying, and the obscene cost of medical care in modern America.

“Ms. Shriver portrays [her characters] with psychological depth and wry humor, dramatizing a subject that’s rarely been exploited in fiction, and pulling off a novel that not only works, but rocks.” —New York Times Book Review From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, a tender, hilarious story of youth and envy, ambition and rock and roll, hero worship and heroism, and, especially, love Beautiful and charismatic, nineteen-year-old Checker Secretti is the most gifted and original drummer that the club-goers of Astoria, Queens, have ever heard. When he plays, conundrums seem to solve themselves, brilliant thoughts spring to mind, and couples fall in love. The members of his band, The Derailleurs, are passionately devoted to their guiding spirit, as are all who fall under Checker''s spell. But when another drummer, Eaton Striker, hears the prodigy play, he is pulled inexorably into Checker''s orbit by a powerful combination of envy and admiration. Soon The Derailleurs, too, are torn apart by latent jealousies that Eaton does his utmost to bring alive.