Robin Sloan

"A new novel about an underground food community by the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore"--

A Novel

Sourdough

A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead "checking out" impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what's going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. With irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the twenty-first century, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility that's rare to the world of literary fiction. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious reader, no matter the time of day.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

From Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. Penumbra's first trip to San Francisco—and of how he got entangled with the city's most unusual always-open enterprise... It is August 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of jackhammers: A futuristic pyramid of a skyscraper is rising a few blocks from City Lights bookstore and an unprecedented subway tunnel is being built under the bay. Meanwhile, south of the city, orchards are quickly giving way to a brand-new industry built on silicon. But young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a book—the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. The last record of the book locates it in the San Francisco of more than a century earlier, and on that scant bit of evidence, Penumbra's university has dispatched him west to acquire it for their library. After a few weeks of rigorous hunting, Penumbra feels no closer to his goal than when he started. But late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends, he stumbles across a 24-hour bookstore, and the possibilities before him expand exponentially . . .

Ajax Penumbra 1969

Annabel Scheme

From Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. Penumbra’s first trip to San Francisco—and of how he got entangled with the city’s most unusual always-open enterprise . . . It is August 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of jackhammers: A futuristic pyramid of a skyscraper is rising a few blocks from City Lights bookstore and an unprecedented subway tunnel is being built under the bay. Meanwhile, south of the city, orchards are quickly giving way to a brand-new industry built on silicon. But young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a book—the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. The last record of the book locates it in the San Francisco of more than a century earlier, and on that scant bit of evidence, Penumbra’s university has dispatched him west to acquire it for their library. After a few weeks of rigorous hunting, Penumbra feels no closer to his goal than when he started. But late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends, he stumbles across a 24-hour bookstore, and the possibilities before him expand exponentially . . .

Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate

The Writer and the Witch

The Sleep Consultant

Computerdeskundigen zoeken in boeken met geheimschrift naar kennis voor het digitale tijdperk.

boekwinkel; 24 uur open

Het geheim van penumbra's / druk 1

24 Saat Acik Kitapcinin Sirri

Named a best book of the year by NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Southern Living Includes the new short story “The Suitcase Clone” From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, “a perfect parable for our times” (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and undersocialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker. Lois Clary is a software engineer who codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop, but they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. Lois must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she’s providing loaves daily to her employer’s cafeteria. When the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market, a whole new world opens up.

Als Clay Jannon seinen Job als Webdesigner verliert, meldet er sich auf eine Stellenanzeige hin bei Mr. Penumbra, der in San Francisco eine alte, verstaubte Buchhandlung betreibt, die rund um die Uhr geöffnet ist. Clay übernimmt die Nachtschicht, und bald ist ihm klar, dass hier irgendetwas nicht stimmt: Die Kunden kaufen nichts, sondern leihen die Bücher nur aus, drei Stockwerke hohe Regale beherbergen riesige Folianten, die keine Texte beinhalten, sondern nur ellenlange Reihen aus Buchstaben. Nach und nach findet Clay heraus, dass Mr. Penumbra und seine Kunden einem uralten Geheimnis auf der Spur sind. Mit der Unterstützung seiner Freundin Kat und seines ältesten Kumpels Neel, sowie der Weisheit von Mr. Penumbra, macht sich Clay daran, dieses Geheimnis zu lüften. Ein Geheimnis, das bis in die Anfangszeiten des Buchdrucks zurückreicht. Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra ist ein spannendes literarisches Rätsel und ein inspirierendes und philosophisches Buch voller einzigartiger Charaktere und visionärer Ideen. Robin Sloan wurde 1979 in der Nähe von Detroit geboren und hat an der Michigan State University Wirtschaftswissenschaften studiert. Er hat für Twitter und verschiedene andere Onlineplattformen gearbeitet und schreibt gerade an einem neuen Roman. Er lebt in San Francisco.

Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra

A Livraria Noite e Dia do Senhor Penumbra

"La crisis económica obliga a Clay Jannon a dejar atrás su vida como diseñador de páginas web en San Francisco y las casualidades, la curiosidad más absoluta y la habilidad de subir escaleras como si fuera un mono le llevan a empezar su nuevo trabajo en la librería permanentemente abierta del señor Penumbra. Después de unos días trabajando, Clay se da cuenta de que la librería es un lugar mucho más extravagante de lo que su nombre indica. Solo hay unos cuantos clientes, pero van continuamente y nunca compran nada. Lo que hacen es llevarse libros prestados, ejemplares misteriosos que se encuentran en los lugares más recónditos de la librería, todo de acuerdo a un trato especial que mantienen con Penumbra. Clay concluye que la tienda no es más que una tapadera para otro negocio y su curiosidad pronto le lleva a ponerse a analizar el complejo comportamiento de los clientes y a arrastrar a sus amigos para que le ayuden a descubrir qué es lo que realmente pasa en la librería. Sin embargo, cuando le llevan sus descubrimientos al Sr. Penumbra, acaban por descubrir que los secretos se extienden mucho más allá de las paredes de la librerá ..."--Jacket.

El Sr. Penumbra y su librería 24 horas abierta

A recessão econômica obriga Clay Jannon, um web-designer desempregado, a aceitar trabalho em uma livraria 24 horas. A livraria do Mr. Penumbra — um homenzinho estranho com cara de gnomo. Tão singular quanto seu proprietário é a livraria onde só um pequeno grupo de clientes aparece. E sempre que aparece é para se enfurnar, junto do proprietário, nos cantos mais obscuros da loja, e apreciar um misterioso conjunto de livros a que Clay Jannon foi proibido de ler. Mas Jannon é curioso... Michael Schaub, crítico de livros da NPR, disse antes do lançamento nos EUA que Mr. Penumbra seria uma das experiências de leitura mais divertidas que provavelmente teria no ano passado. Jonathan H. Liu, da GeekDad, disse: "Fantástico... Eu adorei mergulhar no mundo que Sloan criou, tanto a fantasia de alta tecnologia do Google como da sociedade analógica". O Jornalista Zeca Camargo recomendou a leitura em seu blog, confira o trecho: "Trata-se de uma aventura apaixonada sobre livros – sobre o passado e o futuro deles, ambos os tempos convivendo (não exatamente em harmonia) na livraria do senhor Penumbra. Os personagens que desfilam pela loja desafiam qualquer noção de realidade – e embora alguns trechos tenham toques de ficção científica, há um delicioso balanço entre a fantasia e o nosso cotidiano tão informatizado. Recomendo-o".

A livraria 24 horas do Mr. Penumbra

Named Best Book of the Year by NPR, this book is a must read. Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its owner might suggest. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clienteles behavior. Rendered with intelligence, Sloan's Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore is an establishment youll want to enter and never leave.

El Sr. Penumbra y su Libreria 24 Horas Abierta = Mr. Penumbra and His Library Open 24 Hours

Prestatgeries interminables, piles de llibres, misteriosos codis informàtics i un delirant elenc de personatges conformen la meravellosa primera novel·la de Robin Sloan, un nou talent literari que beu de l’actualitat més accelerada. La llibreria del senyor Penombra és un lloc, sens dubte, estrany. Però, després de treballar-hi uns quants dies, en Clay Jannon s’adonarà que ho és encara més del que sembla. Un relat sobre conspiracions, secrets i misteris, on la nostàlgia del paper i la vertiginositat de la tecnologia s’uneixen per crear un univers únic. «Les prestatgeries s’atapeïen les unes contra les altres i em feia l’efecte de trobar-me al límit d’un bosc; no pas d’un acollidor bosc californià, tampoc, sinó d’un bosc de Transsilvània, un bosc ple de llops, bruixes i bandits armats amb dagues que sotjaven just enllà d’on arribava la llum de la lluna.»

La llibreria del Sr. Penombra oberta les 24 hores

Ein neuer Ansatz für Lois Clary Als die beiden Brüder, bei denen Lois Clary jeden Abend ihr Essen bestellt, ihr Take-away aufgeben müssen, hinterlassen sie Lois einen Sauerteigansatz. Lois' Leben verändert sich fundamental: Sie kündigt ihren Job als Software-Ingenieurin, backt ihr eigenes Brot und eröffnet einen Stand auf einem geheimnisvollen Markt, wo es in allen Farben leuchtenden Käse und Kekse aus Heuschreckenmehl gibt. Als der Sauerteigansatz das Interesse einer Biochemikerin weckt, regt sich in Lois der Verdacht, dass diese Frau für die Lebensmittelindustrie arbeitet, und sie will wissen, wer eigentlich den Markt finanziert ... Im Hardcover erschien dieser Roman unter dem Titel »Der zauberhafte Sauerteig der Lois Clary«.

Roman

Das supergeniale Rezept der Lois Clary

I tak obyčejná věc jako kvásek může někomu změnit život. Mladá programátorka Lois toho má v práci až nad hlavu a kvůli stresu téměř nejí. Když ve svém okolí objeví tajemnou rozvážku jídla, je nadšená — konečně něco, z čeho se jí nedělá špatně. Radost jí však nevydrží dlouho, protože bratři, kteří podnik provozují, se musejí vrátit do Evropy. Než odjedou, dají Lois malý dárek — oprýskaný keramický hrnek s bublajícím kváskem. Lois ho musí udržovat naživu, každý den krmit, pouštět mu hudbu a naučit se s ním péct. Není sice žádná pekařka, ale spolubydlící se jí hodí, i když je to jen hladová kolonie mikroorganismů. Brzy už si pochutnává na vlastnoručně upečeném chlebu a každý den vozí bochník i do práce. Záhadný kvásek jí však nedá spát, a tak se Lois rozhodne vypátrat jeho původ. Pátrání ji zavede na nečekaná místa — a nakonec se jí všechno tak trochu vymkne z rukou. ----- Je to překrásná, drobná, roztomilá a tichá kniha. Zvláštnosti jídla zná stejně dobře, jako znal Penumbra temná zákoutí komunity knihomilců. - Jason Sheehan, National Public Radio Tahle kniha má obrovský záběr — mikrobiotické kolonie, asimilace a tradice, ztělesněné vědomí a krize technologického průmyslu — a přitom neztrácí nic z onoho lehkého, příjemného a ironického Sloanova vyprávění; zápletka vás nutí obracet jednu stránku za druhou a přitom se nahlas smát. - Cory Doctorow, spisovatel Divoká geekovská jízda podivínskými komunitami nadšenců do jídla a technologií v San Francisku… Skvělý příběh, který má — stejně jako dobrý chléb — nezapomenutelnou chuť. - Shelf Awareness Kvásek je plný křupavého humoru a podivných, ale milých postav. Je to zároveň parodie startupové kultury a gurmánská hra. Dokonalé potěšení pro všechny, kteří si k jídlu rádi dopřávají i trochu kouzla. - Booklist

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