Reif Larsen

When twelve-year-old cartography genius T.S. Spivet receives a prestigious award, he leaves his quiet ranch home in Montana for Washington, D.C., and he learns more about himself and the world around him on his journey.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

Born inexplicably to white parents, black youth Radar falls in with a secretive group of scientific puppeteers who stage experimental art in the world's war zones, where he is forced to confront the true nature of his identity. By the author of The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet.

I Am Radar

Manfred Allié

T.S. Spivet (12) hat ein ungewöhnliches Hobby: Er zeichnet Karten aller Art. Dies tut er mit wissenschaftlicher Akribie und wird prompt zu einer Preisvergabe nach Washington eingeladen. Versteckt in einem Güterzug macht er sich auf die Reise.

Roman

Die Karte meiner Träume

The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

T S Spivet est un jeune prodige de douze ans, passionné par la cartographie et les illustrations scientifiques. Un jour, le musée Smithsonian l'appelle : il a obtenu le très prestigieux prix Baird et il est invité à venir faire un discours. A l'insu de tous, il décide alors de traverser les Etats-Unis dans un train de marchandises pour rejoindre Washington DC... Mais là-bas, personne ne se doute qu'il n'est qu'un enfant. Muni d'un télescope, de quatre compas et des Mémoires de son arrière-arrière-grand-mère, T S entreprend un voyage initiatique qui lui permettra peut-être de comprendre enfin comment marche le monde... Notes, cartes et dessins se mêlent au récit avec un humour et une fantaisie irrésistibles.

L'extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T. S. Spivet

Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

In 1975, a black child named Radar Radmanovic is mysteriously born to white parents. Though Radar is raised in suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes entangled with terrible events in Yugoslavia, Norway, Cambodia, the Congo, and beyond. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists - who stage experimental art for people suffering under wartime sieges - Radar is forced to confront the true nature of his identity.

I am Radar

T. S. Spivet'in Secme Eserleri

We see the world through the eyes of twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet as he leaves his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to travel to the Smithsonian to claim the prestigious Baird Award. Along his journey he learns lessons about family and self, and ways to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, and love.

The selected works of T.S. Spivet

As Obras-Primas de T. S. Spivet

A book set ‘inside’ Google Street View in which the author imagines a fictional narrative set around a set of real locations which were captured by Google’s cameras, and which the reader navigates.

Entrances & Exits

Ben Gibson

Hip, funny, unique--and a perfect curriculum tie-in--here's a picture book with mega kid-appeal about the challenges a student faces when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home! Uma's been making charts since she was a little kid. But when her teacher gives the class Uma's dream assignment--to make a chart of their own homes--she is thrown for a loop. Oh, the possibilities! Oh, the pressure! What makes a house housey? she wonders. In order to figure it out, she asks each member of her family--Mom, Dad, and brothers Rex, Bram, and Lukey. But it's not until she has a meltdown and Lukey comforts her that Uma figures out the secret to her chart--and her family. It's the love that is shared inside a house's walls. Told in first-person and featuring engaging graphic artwork, this fun and lively picture book--perfect for classroom use--is a reminder that someone's true home is not a place, but rather the people with whom you surround yourself.

Uma Wimple Charts Her House

Meet three kids on their usual walk down the path near their house. Every day, they notice something new: the trail, the plants and the animals - some of the changes are almost too small to recognize! With sketchbooks under their arms and a magnifying glass in hand, each child interacts with the path in a different way. Together, they create a whole world for themselves. The Path (working title) encourages us to take a closer look and be curious about our surroundings. For readers of all ages, this book shows that the only thing we can count on for certain is change.

The Path

The Washington Post "[G]randly ambitious... another masterpiece... this genre includes some of the greatest novels of our time, from Pynchon’s V. to David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. That’s the troupe Larsen has decided to join, and I Am Radar is a dazzling performance." The moment just before Radar Radmanovic is born, all of the hospital’s electricity mysteriously fails. The delivery takes place in total darkness. Lights back on, the staff sees a healthy baby boy—with pitch-black skin—born to the stunned white parents. No one understands the uncanny electrical event or the unexpected skin color. “A childbirth is an explosion,” the ancient physician says by way of explanation. “Some shrapnel is inevitable, isn’t it?” A kaleidoscopic novel both heartbreaking and dazzling, Reif Larsen’s I Am Radar begins with Radar’s perplexing birth but rapidly explodes outward, carrying readers across the globe and throughout history, as well as to unknown regions where radio waves and subatomic particles dance to their own design. Spanning this extraordinary range with grace and empathy, humor and courage, I Am Radar is the vessel where a century of conflict and art unite in a mesmerizing narrative whole. Deep in arctic Norway, a cadre of Norwegian schoolteachers is imprisoned during the Second World War. Founding a radical secret society that will hover on the margins of recorded history for decades to come, these schoolteachers steal radioactive material from a hidden Nazi nuclear reactor and use it to stage a surreal art performance on a frozen coastline. This strange society appears again in the aftermath of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime, when another secret performance takes place but goes horrifically wrong. Echoes of this disaster can be heard during the Yugoslavian wars, when an avant-garde puppeteer finds himself trapped inside Belgrade while his brother serves in the genocidal militia that attacks Srebrenica. Decades later, in the war-torn Congo, a disfigured literature professor assembles the largest library in the world even as the country around him collapses. All of these stories are linked by Radar—now a gifted radio operator living in the New Jersey Meadowlands—who struggles with love, a set of hapless parents,and a terrible medical affliction that he has only just begun to comprehend. As I Am Radar accelerates toward its unforgettable conclusion, these divergent strands slowly begin to converge, revealing that beneath our apparent differences, unseen harmonies secretly unite our lives. Drawing on the furthest reaches of quantum physics, forgotten history, and mind-bending art, Larsen’s I Am Radar is a triumph of storytelling at its most primal, elegant, and epic: a breathtaking journey through humanity’s darkest hours only to arrive at a place of shocking wonder and redemption. Cleveland Plain-Dealer "Larsen’s is an extraordinarily lush and verdant imagination, blooming wildly on the borders of the absurd and the riotous, the surreal and the ordinary…Quite unlike any [novel] I’ve read in a long time. One doesn’t consume it; one enters it, as part of a literary enactment… Brilliant…The effort is well-rewarded: It is both maddening and marvelous…I can’t wait to see what he pulls off next."

A Novel

Nach dem Bestseller ›Die Karte meiner Träume‹ endlich der neue, schräge Roman von Reif Larsen: ›Die Rettung des Horizonts‹ nimmt uns mit auf eine irrwitzige und spannende Reise rund um den Globus und durch das 20. Jahrhundert. An einem Apriltag des Jahres 1975 erblickt Radar Radmanovic in New Jersey das Licht der Welt. Nicht weiter ungewöhnlich, hätte der Junge weiße Haut wie seine Eltern und nicht dunkle wie eine Aubergine. Kein Arzt in den USA kann diesen Störfall der Biologie erklären. In der Hoffnung auf Heilung reist die Familie in die norwegische Arktis zu einer mysteriösen Gemeinde von Puppenspielern. Dort experimentiert man mit bestimmten Formen der Elektroschockbehandlung, die es ermöglichen soll, Radars Hautfarbe tiefgreifend zu ändern. Nach der Behandlung ist seine Haut zwar heller, aber er ist Epileptiker, und ist, wie sich im Laufe der Jahre herausstellt, sehr empfänglich für alle Arten von Elektrizität. Nach und nach finden an vielen Orten der Welt – in Bosnien während des Bürgerkriegs, im postdiktatorischen Kambodscha und im zusammenbrechenden Kongo – ungewöhnliche Kunstperformances statt, mit wie lebendig scheinenden Figuren und Vögeln, entwickelt von den unterschiedlichsten Menschen, die eine Gegenwelt zu Krieg und Gewalt aufbauen wollen. Und Radar, inzwischen erwachsen geworden, ist der ungewollte Mittelpunkt dieser verrückten Bewegung. Ein reiches, sehr vergnügliches Leseabenteuer der besonderen Art – ein physikalischer Schelmenroman.

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