Jennifer Clement

An exploration of the achievements and tragic early death of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is presented through the story of his relationship with his lover and muse, Suzanne Mallouk. Original. 25,000 first printing.

A Love Story

Widow Basquiat

**Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2018** 'My mother called anyone or anything that seemed alone, or ended up in the wrong place, a stray. There were stray people, stray dogs, stray bullets, and stray butterflies.' Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes. Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex's 'Guns for God' programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl's world is upended. Eli pays regular visits to Margot in the back seat, forcing Pearl to find a world beyond the car. Margot is given a gift by Eli, a gun of her own, just like he's given her flowers. It sits under the driver's seat, a dark presence... Gun Love is a hypnotic story of family, community and violence. Told from the perspective of a sharp-eyed teenager, it exposes America's love affair with firearms and its painful consequences.

Gun Love

Ladydi vokser op på et bjerg i Mexico. Her må piger forklædes som drenge for at undgå at blive bortført og brugt som sexslaver for narkokartellerne. Mødrene graver huller, som deres døtre kan skjule sig i, men en dag kommer Ladydis veninde Paula for sent til sit hul

دعا براى ربوده‌شدگان

Nu ska vi göra dig ful, sa mamma. Hon visslade. Jag såg i spegeln hur hon förde kolbiten över mitt ansikte. Det är ett vidrigt liv, viskade hon. Det bästa man kan vara i Mexiko är en ful flicka. En bön för de stulna är berättelsen om Ladydi Garcia Martínez. Hon bor på mexikanska landsbygden, på en liten kulle, omgärdad av drogkarteller som odlar opium på fälten runt omkring, illegal invandring och ett polisväsende som inte går att lita på. Hennes hem är en by nära det som en gång i tiden var ett glamoröst Acapulco. Livet är tufft för Ladydi och de andra flickorna i byn. Mödrarna är hårdhudade men livrädda och papporna har rymt. Ständigt får de alla vara på sin vakt, ett grymt hot om kidnappning hänger över dem. Och en dag händer det. En kraftfull bil med knarkkartellens män beordrar den vackraste lilla flickan in i bilen och lämnar byn. Ladydis berättelse är inspirerad av en verklighet som gäller för många flickor och kvinnor i dagens Mexiko men som inte många känner till. En värld där flickor försöker likna pojkar så länge det är möjligt för att inte kidnappas och säljas, och där polisen är lika farliga att kontakta som de kriminella. En rakbladsvass och djupt berörande roman skildrat med ett vackert och poetiskt språk. "In Mexico today women are stolen off the street or taken from their houses at gunpoint. Some women never return home from their work place, a party or from walking to the corner. They are all young and poor and pretty" Jennifer Clement

En bön för de stulna

Varastettujen rukousten vuori

‘Now we make you ugly,’ my mother said. ‘The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.’ On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Especially a pretty one. If the Narcos hear there is a pretty girl on the mountain, they steal her. So when the black SUVs roll into town, Ladydi and her friends hide in the warren of holes scattered across the mountain, safely out of sight. Because the stolen girls don’t come back. Ladydi is determined to get out, to find a life that offers more than just the struggle to survive. But she soon finds that the drug cartels have eyes everywhere, and the cities are no safer than the mountains.

Prayers for the Stolen

Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes. Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex's 'Guns for God' programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl's world is upended. Eli pays regular visits to Margot in the back seat, forcing Pearl to find a world beyond the car. Margot is given a gift by Eli, a gun of her own, just like he's given her flowers. It sits under the driver's seat, a dark presence... Gun Love is a hypnotic story of family, community and violence. Told from the perspective of a sharp-eyed teenager, it exposes America's love affair with firearms and its painful consequences.

While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Jennifer Clement argues here, it is central to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to early modern concepts of the self. As this study shows, early modern literary engagements with humility link it to self-knowledge through the practice of right reading, and make humility foundational to any proper understanding of human agency. Yet humility has received little critical interest, and has often been misunderstood as a false virtue that engenders only self-abjection. This study offers an overview of various ways in which humility is discussed, deployed, or resisted in early modern texts ranging from the explicitly religious and autobiographical prose of Katherine Parr and John Donne, to the more politically motivated prose of Queen Elizabeth I and the seventeenth-century reformer and radical Thomas Tryon. As part of the wider 'turn to religion' in early modern studies, this study seeks to complicate our understanding of a mainstream early modern virtue, and to problematize a mode of critical analysis that assumes agency is always defined by resistance.

Reading Humility in Early Modern England

The University of Canterbury is the guardian of a rich and varied inheritance, which is reflected in the diverse material held by its libraries. These collections enable us to discover not only the history of Christchurch, the South Island of New Zealand's largest city, but also into the history of an emerging nation and the broader Pacific region. This book presents reflections on some of the distinctive and exceptional items in the University's keeping. Written by Canterbury academics and members of the wider community, it considers material ranging from medieval European manuscripts to Maori whakapapa books. The items surveyed vary from an original printing of the 1611 King James Bible, to the papers of Karl Popper and the Pacific Leprosy Foundation Archive. Together these tell many stories. They offer insights into the minds of kings, intellectuals, musicians, artists and explorers. They chart the development of a university and the building of a community. They are a history of the written word, but also of a settler society. Canterbury's treasures offer fascinating windows onto the past and occasion to reflect on the present; they highlight many of the opportunities for future research opening up in an increasingly digital age.

Treasures of the University of Canterbury Library

Toronto Workshop Productions Archives (University of Guelph)

Toronto Workshop Productions

Jennifer Clement - Company Portraits

Offers a selection of poems, as well as the complete Lady of the Broom sequence, together with selections from the author's first two books.

New and Selected Poems

Rachel Potter

Laetitia Zecchini

Peter McDonald

Carles Torner

Ginevra Avalle

One hundred years of protecting freedom of expression-literature knows no frontiers. This book tells the extraordinary story of how writers from around the world placed the celebration of literature and the defense of free speech at the center of humanity's struggle against repression and terror.

An Illustrated History

An irresistible fable of faith, love and mortal sin.

The Poison That Fascinates

La supervivencia diaria de unas mujeres que viven solas en una colina dominada por los narcos en México. En nuestra montaña no había hombres. Era como vivir donde no había árboles... Estar en un lugar sin hombres es como dormir sin sueños. Quien habla es Ladydi García Martínez, una chiquilla de ojos color café que vive en las montañas de Guerrero, México, una tierra sin maridos, sin padres y casi sin hermanos porque todos se han ido a buscar fortuna al otro lado de la valla y ninguno se ha molestado en volver. Ese es el lugar donde lo mejor que le puede ocurrir a una niña es nacer fea porque tan pronto los traficantes de droga tienen noticia de que anda por ahí una joven hermosa, acuden rumbosos en busca de su presa. Ese es el pueblo donde ya nadie le reza a Dios porque ni de él se fían... Pese a todo, en ese infierno Ladydi crece rodeada de amigas y al lado de una madre capaz de robar, maldecir y reír cuando le venga en ganas. Bien mirado, la miseria no es tanta en Guerrero, ni el dolor tampoco, y la vida discurre al ritmo de unas chancletas que van pisando polvo, hasta que llegue el día en que una pasión o un delito te arranquen de la montaña y hagan de ti una mujer distinta. Con una prosa hecha de palabras que saltan y bailan, Jennifer Clement nos lleva a un lugar donde la desesperación y el humor se encuentran: ahí, en Guerrero, está la buena literatura. Reseña: «Jennifer Clement convierte la angustia en seducción y espléndida locura.» Francisco Goldman, New York Times Book Review

Ladydi

Emma Glass

Laurent Seksik

David Trueba

Christine Angot

Simonetta Greggio

Franzobel

Serge Joncour

Matthieu Mégevand

Amélie Cordonnier

Thomas B. Reverdy

Catalogue de la rentrée littéraire 2018 des éditions Flammarion : Christine Angot - Amélie Cordonnier - Simonetta Greggio - Serge Joncour - Matthieu Mégevand - Thomas B. Reverdy - Laurent Seksik - Jennifer Clement - Franzobel - Emma Glass - David Trueba

Rentrée littéraire Flammarion 2018 - Extraits gratuits

A True Story Based on Lies is a remarkable and original novel that addresses the universal issues of class discrimination, male oppression and female servitude through dual narratives ofspellbinding power. Set in contemporary Mexico, the book charts the consequences of a sexual relationship between Leonora, a servant in the wealthy O'Connor home, and her master. When a child, Aura Olivia, is born from this union she is brought up as the daughter of the house. As the novel unfolds, the 'true' story gradually emerges.

A True Story Based On Lies

Jean-Michel Basquiat var målaren som kom att definiera 1980-talet, geniet som tog graffitin in i konstvärlden runt Andy Warhol, den förste svarte konstnären som blev en superstjärna. Suzanne Mallouk levde med honom. Hon såg passionen och framgången på nära håll, men också det förfall som hans livsstil förde med sig - 1988 dog han av en överdos. Jennifer Clement rörde sig i samma kretsar, och har skrivit en drabbande och poetisk memoar om Basquiat och hans änka - ett tidsdokument för dig som älskade Patti Smiths Just kids. Översättare: Niclas Hval

Basquiats änka

Jennifer Clement explora la relación entre el artista Jean-Michel Basquiat y su musa, Suzanne Mallouk. Hermosamente escrita, emocionalmente profunda, la historia de Jean-Michel Basquiat y Suzanne Mallouk, amantes unidos por el imparable poder de la adicción y del arte, la obsesión y el amor. Un retrato que revela a una mujer apasionada, complicada, brillante y vital para la vida de Basquiat. Suzanne lleva escondida heroína en el cabello para que no puedan encontrarla ni drogadictos ni policías. Basquiat vive en las bancas de Washington Square Park, con sus crayones y sus otras pocas pertenencias guardadas en una bolsa de plástico. Una vez que se conocen en un oscuro y maloliente bar llamado Night Birds, se vuelven inseparables. Juntos viven un Nueva York glamoroso, artístico, musical, violento, drogadicto y convulso. La crítica ha opinado: "Una hermosa y poética memoria... Basquiat sabía la manera en que la posteridad lo iba a juzgar. La viuda Basquiat debería ser parte de ese criterio." - The Herald "Una historia brillante de la relación entre Basquiat y su musa y amante... Un libro emocionante que te deja con un enorme nudo en la garganta." - Independent on Sunday "Con cortos y episódicos capítulos, Clement nos ofrece una mirada al interior de la vida de un artista brillante, así como de un mundo caótico que lo consumió. Una biografía poética e inquietante de un talentoso pero imperfecto artista." - Kirkus Reviews

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