Rebecca Makkai

"In 1985, Yale Tishman is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery where he works. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying, and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster."--

The Great Believers

The riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie.

But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent ﬂaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought—if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.

In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transﬁxing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.

A Novel

I Have Some Questions for You

When her favorite patron, a book-loving ten-year-old, runs away from overbearing parents who force him to attend anti-gay classes with a celebrity pastor, children's librarian Lucy Hull flees with the boy and discovers that they are being pursued by an anonymous adversary.

The Borrower

A couple living on a historic estate that once housed an artist's colony make a discovery that leads them into a thrilling journey into the past as the secrets of the house and the people who lived there are revealed.

The Hundred-Year House

A spellbinding short story collection from a master of the form, the acclaimed author of The Hundred-Year House Rebecca Makkai's first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the acclaimed writer returns with a highly anticipated collection of short stories marked with her signature mix of intelligence, wit, and heart. A reality show producer manipulates two contestants into falling in love, while her own relationship falls apart. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young boy has a revelation about his father's past when a renowned Romanian violinist plays a concert in their home. In an unnamed country, a composer records the folk songs of two women from a village on the brink of destruction. Makkai has been anthologized four times in The Best American Short Stories as well as The Best American Nonrequired Reading. These wide-ranging and deeply moving stories?some inspired by her family history?will delight her many fans, as well as readers of Lorrie Moore, Jim Shepard, and Karen Russell.

Stories

Music for Wartime

Wierzyliśmy jak nikt

In Chicago maakt in de jaren tachtig de aidsepidemie veel slachtoffers onder een vriendengroep; in 2015 gaat de zus van een van hen in Parijs op zoek naar haar dochter die in een sekte zit.

Een stralende toekomst

I grandi sognatori

Die Optimisten

Lucy Hull, una joven resignada a trabajar como bibliotecaria de libros infantiles en un remoto pueblo de Missouri, ayuda habitualmente a su lector preferido - Ian Drake, un niño de diez años obsesionado con la lectura - a escoger libros a escondidas de su madre, una mujer autoritaria que pasa por la censura todo lo que el niño quiere leer. La inercia existencial de Lucy la lleva a tener una vida de pocas emociones, hasta que se topa con un dilema moral cuando conoce el plan que ha preparado Ian para escapar del control de su madre.

El devorador de libros / The Borrower

En 1985 à Chicago, le sida fait son apparition. Yale Tishman, un jeune galeriste, voit son entourage frappé par l'épidémie. Bientôt, il ne lui reste plus que Fiona, la jeune soeur de son meilleur ami. Trente ans plus tard, celle-ci part pour Paris à la recherche de sa fille, enrôlée dans une secte. Elle repense alors à cette période noire de son enfance. Andrew Carnegie medal 2019.

Les optimistes

Numa tarde de novembro de 1985, um grupo de amigos reúne-se em Chicago. Bebem cubas-libres ao som de Fly Me to the Moon num ambiente de celebração forçada. Pois Nico morreu. Nico era brilhante e belo. Flores e lágrimas não lhe farão justiça. A missa fúnebre decorre numa igreja a trinta quilómetros de distância. Apenas a família – que o abandonara anos antes – está presente. É uma cerimónia breve marcada pelo constrangimento.Jovem e gay, Nico é uma das primeiras vítimas que o vírus da SIDA faz no seu círculo de amigos. Um dos mais próximos, Yale Tishman, acompanhou-o até ao fim e vive agora entre o medo da doença e a urgência de construir um futuro. Mas enquanto a sua carreira floresce, a sua vida pessoal vai ficando cada vez mais limitada. Um a um, Tishman vê os amigos perderem a vida. Até restar apenas Fiona, irmã mais nova de Nico. Trinta anos mais tarde, reencontramos Fiona, agora em Paris. Alojada em casa de um velho amigo, Richard Campo, um fotógrafo que documentou de perto a epidemia de Chicago, Fiona relembra a sua juventude. A sua capacidade de amar – a filha que entretanto teve, o marido que abandonou, os amigos que sobreviveram – foi modelada por esses anos. Todos se afastaram, deixando-a só para enfrentar as consequências de três décadas ensombradas pela perda.

Os Otimistas

A collection of bookstore erotica by contemporary poets, fiction authors & comic artists.

A Bookstore Erotica Anthology

Between the Covers

Yale Tishman es uno de los muchos amigos de Nico que se han reunido para honrar su memoria en una pequeña fiesta. Es Chicago, es 1985, y esos amigos son homosexuales. El SIDA causa verdaderos estragos: uno a uno, sus amigos enferman, y cada día que pasa el virus estrecha más su cerco alrededor de Yale

Los optimistas

Icten Inananlar

Lucy, célibataire pas encore trentenaire, est bibliothécaire dans une petite ville perdue du Middle West. Ian, dix ans, fils unique de chrétiens fondamentalistes homophobes, est son plus fidèle lecteur. Un beau matin, elle le découvre sur son lieu de travail réfugié parmi les livres. Contre toute attente, elle ne va pas le ramener tout de suite à ses parents. Ensemble, ils vont parcourir plusieurs États de cette Amérique post 11-Septembre. Pour ce gamin rêveur, c'est la découverte du vaste monde ; pour elle, l'occasion de s'interroger sur ses origines russes, le déracinement de ses ancêtres et leurs aspirations à plus de liberté. Rebecca Makkai signe ici un premier roman humaniste et original en forme de road-book. Une balade épique et onirique qui décortique les traumatismes d'une nation faite d'immigrants, de fugueurs et de chapardeurs d'identités.

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幸運之子

Une saga familiale ambitieuse et ludique sous la forme de poupées russes. 1999 : Bienvenue à Laurelfield, vaste demeure du Midwest et partez à la rencontre de ses propriétaires ancestraux, les Devohr. Il y a Zee, une marxiste qui méprise la richesse de ses parents, tout en vivant dans leur maison avec son mari Doug ; sa mère Grace, qui prétend pouvoir tout savoir d'une personne en regardant ses dents ; et son beau-père Bruce, occupé à faire des réserves pour l'arrivée imminente de l'an 2000. Et puis il y a Violet, son arrière-grand-mère, qui se serait suicidée quelque part dans cette grande maison et dont le portrait est toujours accroché dans la salle à manger. 1955 : Grace et son mari violent George emménagent à Laurelfield. Rapidement, elle remarque des détails étranges qu'elle considère comme des présages d'événements à venir. Sa vie commence alors à changer... 1929 : Laurelfield est une colonie d'artistes hétéroclite et bohèmes où se retrouve la fine fleur de la création artistique de l'époque. Le petit groupe passe son temps entre poursuites artistiques et débauche sous les yeux du portrait de Violet Devhor, qui hanterait les lieux. "Une saga familiale [...] ainsi que le quotidien de ses habitants excentriques." (LH Spécial, 11/12/20)

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