Little Book of Cats
Time spent with cats is never wasted. Comforting, cuddly, cute... What could be better than the presence of a fabulous feline fur-ball? As well as being totally adorable, cats are fiercely independent, curious and mischievous - and they make wonde...
Pow Wow
En häpnadsväckande litterär debut! Margaret Atwood' En nykter Jacquie Red Feather försöker hitta tillbaka till familjen hon lämnat bakom sig. Det är därför hon är där. Edwin letar efter sin riktiga pappa. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield är där för att se den unge Orvil dansa. Han har lärt sig traditionell indiandans på YouTube och ska uppträda offentligt för första gången. De är alla där för Big Oakland Powwows festligheter. De kommer att få uppleva gemenskap och heliga traditioner. Men också förlust, uppoffring och hjältemod. Tommy Oranges vildsinta, vredgade, roliga och lyriska debut liknar inget annat. Romanen brottas med ett komplext och smärtsamt förflutet, ett arv som bär på lika delar skönhet och andlighet tillsammans med beroendets, våldets och självmordets ok. Orange hyllas som en ny röst i den amerikanska samtidslitteraturen och det talas redan om boken som en modern klassiker. https://www.ginza.se/product/725941 https://media.ginza.se/Images/item_img_1200/725941.jpg backorder 2025-10-24 59.00 SEK Böcker > Skönlitteratur > Utländsk 9789177952190 new false SE:39.00 SEK SE 718791 There There As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow—some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent—momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will to perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss. There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It’s “masterful . . . white-hot . . . devastating (The Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to put down. Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. This is the book that everyone is talking about right now, and it’s destined to be a classic.
Park
As commander of No. 11 Group, Fighter Command and responsible for the air defence of London and South-East England, Keith Park took charge of the day-to-day direction of the battle. In spotlighting his thoughts and actions during the crisis, Vince...
Wandering Stars
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodline. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. From the moment he awakens in his hospital bed, Orvil begins compulsively googling school shootings on YouTube. He also becomes emotionally reliant on the prescription medications meant to ease his physical trauma. His younger brother Lony, suffering from PTSD, is struggling to make sense of the carnage he witnessed at the shooting by secretly cutting himself and enacting blood rituals which he hopes will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift, experimenting with Ceremony and peyote, searching for a way to heal her wounded family. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange once again delivers a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous, a book piercing in its poetry, sorrow, and rage-a masterful follow-up to his already-classic first novel, and a devastating indictment of America's war on its own people.
