Raven Leilani

Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She's also, secretly, haltingly figuring her way into life as an artist. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage—with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and falling into Eric's family life, his home. She becomes hesitant friend to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie is the only black woman young Akila may know. Razor sharp, darkly comic, sexually charged, socially disruptive, Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make her sense of her life in a tumultuous era. It is also a haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way.

A Novel

Luster

„Ein elektrisierendes, scharfsinniges und komisches Buch darüber, was es bedeutet, heutzutage jung zu sein. Brutal und brillant!“ Zadie Smith Ein Lieblingsbuch von Barack Obama New York Times-Bestseller „Das Debüt des Jahres.“ The Guardian „Sexy und unverschämt lesenswert!“ Daily Mail Die dreiundzwanzigjährige Edie lebt in Bushwick, Brooklyn, und hält sich nach ihrem abgebrochenen Kunststudium finanziell mit einem Assistenzjob in einem Verlag und emotional mit wechselnden Liebschaften über Wasser. Dann beginnt sie eine Affäre mit Eric, einem weißen Mann, der in einer offenen Ehe lebt und fast doppelt so alt ist wie sie. Während sich Edie mit Erics Ehefrau und vor allem mit der Adoptivtochter des Paares, Akila, einem Schwarzen Mädchen, anfreundet, verschieben sich alle Perspektiven. Edie scheint die einzige andere Schwarze Person zu sein, die Akila kennt, und die Beziehung zwischen den beiden wird bald wichtiger als alles andere. Auf einmal muss Edie sich mit ihrer eigenen Einsamkeit und dem schon immer in ihrem Leben gewesenen Rassismus und Sexismus neu auseinandersetzen.

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Brillo

Em seu romance de estreia, Raven Leilani explora o poder das relações de gênero, classe e raça por meio das angústias e descobertas da jovem Edie, que se vê imersa em uma complexa dinâmica familiar. Eleito um dos melhores livros do ano por The New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, entre outros. Edie tem vinte e poucos anos e está tentando descobrir quem é e o que quer ser — tudo isso enquanto trabalha numa editora e faz as piores escolhas amorosas possíveis. Pela internet, ela conhece Eric, um homem branco de meia-idade que tem um casamento aberto e com quem inicia um relacionamento. Quando Edie perde o emprego, a esposa de Eric, Rebecca, convida a jovem para passar um tempo em Nova Jersey, onde vivem com Akila, a filha adotiva do casal — que também é negra. Com essa nova dinâmica familiar — marcada pelas tensões políticas, sociais, econômicas e identitárias dos tempos atuais —, as intenções e os pontos de vista de todos os personagens estarão em xeque. E, assim, através de um emaranhado de raiva, dor, ternura e afeto, Edie talvez consiga compreender mais a respeito de si mesma, de seu talento e de seu lugar no mundo. "Este livro é ridiculamente bom: lindo, sombrio e divertido, com frases que vão acabar com você." — Carmen Maria Machado, autora de Na casa dos sonhos "Um livro tenso, afiado e engraçado sobre ser jovem. Brutal e brilhante." — Zadie Smith

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«La novela que por fin explica qué es ser joven hoy. Una escritora absolutamente brutal.» Zadie Smith Edie, una joven afroamericana de 23 años, tiene una aventura con Eric, un hombre blanco casado de 41. El hogar no se rompe. Este matrimonio privilegiado, pero progresista, la invita a trabajar en su casa. El hogar, lleno de tensiones y descubrimientos, se convierte en otra cosa. Libro favorito de Barack Obama y de The New Yorker. Best seller en la lista de The New York Times. Uno de los libros del año de The New York Times Review of Books, NPR, O Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Shondaland, The Times (UK), Buzzfeed, Kirkus, Time, Good Housekeeping, InStyle, The Guardian, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The New York Public Library y Wired, entre muchas otras cabeceras de lo más dispares. Ganador de los premios NBCC John Leonard Prize, Kirkus, Premio Primera Novela de The Center for Fiction, Premio Dylan Thomas, y el VCU Cabell al mejor debut. «Tan delicioso que es ilícito.» The New York Times El debut más premiado de los últimos tiempos, ya en adaptación a serie en una ambiciosa producción de HBO.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel Finalist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named Best Book of the Year by O: the Oprah Magazine, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Town and Country, Amazon, Indigo, NPR, Harper’s Bazaar, Kirkus Reviews, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping Sharp, comic, disruptive, and tender, Luster sees a young Black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage. Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She's also, secretly, haltingly, figuring her way into life as an artist. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage—with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and falling into Eric's family life, his home. She becomes a hesitant friend to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie is the only Black woman who young Akila knows. Razor-sharp, darkly comic, sexually charged, socially disruptive, Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life in a tumultuous era. It is also a haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way.

En av det senaste årets mest hyllade amerikanska debutromaner Utsedd till en av årets bästa böcker av: New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Time, The Guardian, I-D, Vanity Fair, Wired, Barack Obama Edie kämpar sig igenom tjugoårsåldern - hon delar en sunkig lägenhet i Bushwick, New York, stämplar in och ut på sitt trista, administrativa jobb, och har utöver det ett vidlyftigt sexliv. Efter att ha legat med representanter från i stort sett varje avdelning på företaget vänder hon sig till en dejtingapp, där hon träffar Eric; en medelålders, gift, vit arkivarie med en öppen relation. När Edie förlorar jobbet tvingas hon flytta in i gästrummet hos Eric och hans fru Rebecca. Hon blir snabbt en förebild för parets svarta, adopterade tonårsdotter Akila. Edie blir en hjälpande hand för Akila, hittills fullständigt ensam i ett ogenomträngligt vitt sammanhang. Lyster är en sexuellt laddad roman om en ung svart kvinna som försöker få utlopp för livets hunger, för sin längtan och ilska, under en tumultartad era. I svensk översättning av Djordje Zarkovic. RAVEN LEILANI [f. 1990] är en amerikansk författare uppväxt i Bronx, New York. Hon har en masterexamen i konst från New York University, där hon bland annat studerade under Zadie Smith och Jonathan Safran Foer. Hon är i dag bosatt i Brooklyn. Debutromanen Lyster [Luster] har hyllats av en närmast unison amerikansk kritikerkår och tilldelats det prestigefyllda Dylan Thomas-priset. »En tät, skarp, rolig bok om att vara ung i dag. Det är brutalt och briljant.« Zadie Smith »Lyster har så oändligt mycket att säga om vår tid just nu, och det är en sällsynt fröjd att läsa den. En helt förbluffande roman.« Björn Kohlström, Bernur

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