Jonathan Safran Foer

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response? In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves—with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat—and don’t eat—for breakfast.

Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

We Are the Weather

A masterful work of storytelling, a unique sculptural object created through a collaborative process between Visual Editions and author. A curiosity with the die-cut technique was combined with the pages' physical relationship to one another and how this could somehow be developed to work with a meaningful narrative. This led to Jonathan deciding to use an existing piece of text and cut a new story out of it - his favourite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. Writing, cutting and proto-typing has created a new story cut from the words of an old favourite.

Tree of Codes

A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” before asking him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others’? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foer’s first novel in eleven years—a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy. Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home—and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. Showcasing the same high-energy inventiveness, hilarious irreverence, and emotional urgency that readers loved in his earlier work, Here I Am is Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet. It not only confirms Foer’s stature as a dazzling literary talent but reveals a novelist who has fully come into his own as one of our most important writers.

A Novel

Here I Am

To reduce risk of pandemics for ourselves, our gaze needs to turn to the health of animals. From the bestselling author of the essential new 2019 book on animal agriculture and climate crisis: We are the Weather Discover Jonathan Safran Foer's eye-opening and life-changing account of the meat we eat 'Should be compulsory reading. A genuine masterwork. Read this book. It will change you' Time Out Eating Animals is the most original and urgent book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. For good. Whether you're flirting with veganuary, trying to cut back on animal consumption, or a lifelong meat-eater, you need to read this book. 'Shocking, incandescent, brilliant' The Times 'Everyone who eats flesh should read this book' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 'Universally compelling. Jonathan Safran Foer's book changed me' Natalie Portman 'Gripping [and] original. A brilliant synthesis of argument, science and storytelling. One of the finest books ever written on the subject of eating animals' Times Literary Supplement 'If you eat meat and fish, you should read this book. Even if you don't, you should. It might bring the beginning of a change of heart about all living things' Joanna Lumley

Eating Animals

Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino

Roman

Extrem laut & unglaublich nah

Ogni cosa è illuminata

Possiamo salvare il mondo, prima di cena. Perché il clima siamo noi

Hilarious, energetic, and profoundly touching, a debut novel follows a young writer as he travels to the farmlands of eastern Europe, where he embarks on a quest to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis, and, guided by his young Ukrainian translator, he discovers an unexpected past that will resonate far into the future. Excerpt in The New Yorker.

Everything Is Illuminated

perché mangiamo gli animali?

Se niente importa

Anhand von biografischen Anekdoten, eigenen Recherchen in der Fleischindustrie und einer Fülle statistischer Belege reitet der Autor eine leidenschaftlichen Attacke gegen das System der Massentierhaltung sowie den ungehemmten Fleischkonsum und skizziert Möglichkeiten eines Wandels.

Tiere Essen

Hayvan Yemek

The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning is Jonathan Safran Foer on top form inventive, funny and full of surprises.

The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning

Jonathan Safran Foer schafft es erneut, uns ein komplexes Thema wie die Klimakrise so nahe zu bringen wie niemand sonst. Und das Beste: Einen Lösungsansatz liefert er gleich mit. Mit seinem Bestseller »Tiere essen« hat Jonathan Safran Foer weltweit Furore gemacht: Viele seiner Leser wurden nach der Lektüre Vegetarier oder haben zumindest ihre Ernährung überdacht. Nun nimmt Foer sich des größten Themas unserer Zeit an: dem Klimawandel. Der Klimawandel ist zu abstrakt, deshalb lässt er uns kalt. Foer erinnert an die Kraft und Notwendigkeit gemeinsamen Handelns und führt dazu anschaulich viele gelungene Beispiele an, die uns als Ansporn dienen sollen. Wir können die Welt nicht retten, ohne einem der größten CO2- und Methangas-Produzenten zu Leibe zu rücken, der Massentierhaltung. Foer zeigt einen Lösungsansatz auf, der niemandem viel abverlangt, aber extrem wirkungsvoll ist: tierische Produkte nur einmal täglich zur Hauptmahlzeit. Foer nähert sich diesem wichtigen Thema eloquent, überzeugend, sehr persönlich und mit wachem Blick und großem Herz für die menschliche Unzulänglichkeit. Und das Beste: Seinen Lösungsansatz können Sie gleich in die Tat umsetzen.

Wie wir unseren Planeten schon beim Frühstück retten können

Wir sind das Klima!

Hier bin ich

Asiri Gürültülü ve Inanilmaz Yakin

Her Sey Aydinlandi

UNO DEI MIGLIORI 100 LIBRI DEL 2016 SECONDO IL NEW YORK TIMES «Opera-mondo che si insinua nelle fondamenta della società, e nei nostri amori.» Corriere della Sera - Marco Missiroli «Fermi tutti, è uscito “il romanzo” di Jonathan Safran Foer. Non “il nuovo romanzo”, non “l’ultimo romanzo”, non “un altro”: c’è un momento in cui uno scrittore azzera le distanze e diffidenze, schiude spudoratamente un accesso diverso alla sua letteratura.» IL - Nadia Terranova «Foer agguanta il tema del confronto fra tradizione americana, ebraismo e intolleranza armata... con scrittura millimetrica dove ogni particolare è in primo piano, come in una tela di Seurat.» La Stampa - Gianni Riotta «Foer ha trovato le parole e il modo per consolare noi... Noi che amiamo, non amiamo più, ameremo sempre, noi che sapevamo tutto, eppure a un certo punto non abbiamo capito niente. Noi che attraversiamo momenti di debolezza perché siamo esseri di debolezza.» Vanity Fair - Chiara Gamberale «Eccomi.» Così risponde Abramo quando Dio lo chiama per ordinargli di sacrificare Isacco. Ma com’è possibile per Abramo proteggere suo figlio e al tempo stesso adempiere alla richiesta di Dio? Come possiamo, nel mondo attuale, assolvere ai nostri doveri a volte contrastanti di padri, di mariti, di figli, di mogli, di madri, e restare anche fedeli a noi stessi? Ambientato a Washington nel corso di quattro, convulse settimane, Eccomi è la storia di una famiglia sull’orlo della crisi. Mentre Jacob, Julia e i loro tre figli devono fare i conti con la distanza tra la vita che desiderano e quella che si trovano a vivere, arrivano da Israele i cugini in visita, in teoria per partecipare al Bar Mitzvah del tredicenne Sam. I tradimenti coniugali veri o presunti, le frustrazioni professionali, le ribellioni e le domande esistenziali dei figli, i pensieri suicidi del nonno, la malattia del cane, anche i previsti festeggiamenti: tutto rimane in sospeso quando un forte terremoto colpisce il Medio Oriente, innescando una serie di reazioni a catena che mettono a repentaglio la sopravvivenza dello stato di Israele. Di fronte a questo scenario imprevisto, ognuno sarà costretto a confrontarsi con scelte a cui non era preparato, e a interrogarsi sul significato della parola casa. L’atteso ritorno di Jonathan Safran Foer alla narrativa dopo oltre dieci anni travolge con l’energia e l’impatto emotivo del suo libro d’esordio, confermando il talento di uno scrittore unico. Ironico e irriverente, commovente e profondo: un romanzo-mondo che affronta in una prospettiva universale i temi cari all’autore – i legami famigliari, le tragedie della Storia, l’identità ebraica – e insieme apre squarci di grande intimità. Jonathan Safran Foer è nato a Washington nel 1977 e vive a New York. Attualmente insegna Scrittura creativa alla New York University. Ha esordito a venticinque anni con Ogni cosa è illuminata (2002), best seller internazionale e vincitore del National Jewish Book Award e del Guardian First Book Award; ugualmente fortunato il secondo romanzo, Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino (2005); infine, è uscito il saggio-reportage Se niente importa. Perché mangiamo gli animali? (2010) Da entrambi i romanzi sono stati tratti film di successo. I libri di Jonathan Safran Foer sono pubblicati in Italia da Guanda.

Eccomi

From the Publisher: Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell.

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