Sigrid Nunez

The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship. A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.

What Are You Going Through

"When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master ... the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them"--Amazon.com.

The Friend

The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another’s distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez’s new novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself.

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The Vulnerables

Growing up in a New York housing project during the 1950s and 1960s, a young woman, the child of multiethnic immigrant parents, escapes the problems of her life into a world of dreams shaped by her parents' stories, her own reading, and the ballet. Reprint.

A Feather on the Breath of God

Written by a novelist who lived with Susan Sontag's son, this memoir of the writer responsible for the avant-garde Against Interpretation depicts her as a magnetic, outsized personality and a polarizing presence who made being an intellectual a glamorous occupation.

A Memoir of Susan Sontag

Sempre Susan

Der Freund

A writer unexpectedly loses her best friend and mentor and is forced to take over his Great Dane. She'll have no choice but to take it to her tiny apartment, risking eviction because they don't allow animals. A unique and beautiful story of friendship between a lonely writer and a dog without an owner.

El Amigo

'A sharp-eyed and tender novel about human connection in a time of crisis' (PAULA HAWKINS) from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don't look back' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Beautiful and profound' MEG MASON 'Full of alive, curious poetry on the chaotic times we live in' SHEENA PATEL, author of I'm a Fan 'I am committed, until one of us dies, to Nunez's novels. They are short, wise, provocative, funny' NEW YORK TIMES Three strangers are thrown together in one Manhattan apartment: a solitary writer; a Gen Z college drop-out; and a spirited parrot named Eureka. As the world outside descends into turmoil, the three of them must learn how to live with and care for one another. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another's distress. 'Cracks open windows and offers a reassuring breeze, reminding us that it's OK - and perhaps even necessary - to need each other; it's only human' SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 'One of my favourite authors' NATALIE PORTMAN 'Fresh, funny and very now' BIDISHA 'A breath of fresh air for a time when it still sometimes feels there isn't any' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING A Most Anticipated Book In: The New York Times The Washington Post Elle Time Shondaland Good Housekeeping The Millions W Magazine Town & Country Literary Hub AP News Southern Living Publishers Lunch

'Beautiful and profound' Meg Mason

Przyjaciel

This "tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society" (The New York Times) is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf from a National Book Award-winning author. In 1934, a "sickly pathetic marmoset” named Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. After he nursed her back to health, she became a ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society. Moving with Leonard and Virginia Woolf between their homes in London and Sussex, she developed her own special relationship with each of them, as well as with their pet cocker spaniels and with various members of the Woolfs’ circle, among them T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. Mitz also helped the Woolfs escape a close call with Nazis during a trip through Germany just before the outbreak of World War II. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, and other archival documents, Nunez reconstructs Mitz’s life against the background of Bloomsbury’s twilight years. This tender and imaginative mock biography offers a striking look at the lives of writers and artists shadowed by war, death, and mental breakdown, and at the solace and amusement inspired by its tiny subject--and this new edition includes an afterword by Peter Cameron and a never-before-published letter about Mitz by Nigel Nicolson. “In short, glistening sentences that refract the larger world, Ms. Nunez describes the appealingly eccentric, fiercely intelligent Woolfs during a darkening time.” —The Wall Street Journal

The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

Mitz

Seeking refuge in the home of an evangelical pastor after a flu pandemic decimates the planet's populations, thirteen-year-old orphan Cole witnesses the community's preparations for a prophesied religious cataclysm and struggles with memories of a very different world.

Salvation City

Una conmovedora novela sobre el dolor y la muerte, y por encima de todo un canto al poder de la amistad.

Cuál es tu tormento

Dla Rouenny

La singular, bellísima y conmovedora historia de la amistad entre una escritora neoyorquina y un perro, con el dolor de la pérdida de fondo. La protagonista y narradora de esta novela es una escritora neoyorquina que pierde de forma inesperada a su gran amigo y mentor, y de forma no menos inesperada se ve obligada a hacerse cargo de su perro –un enorme y artrítico gran danés–, que se ha quedado solo y traumatizado por la súbita desaparición de su amo. La protagonista no tendrá otro remedio que llevárselo a su minúsculo apartamento, arriesgándose a que la echen porque en el edificio está prohibido tener animales. Y así, con el trasfondo del duelo por el amigo y el amo desaparecido en trágicas circunstancias, se desarrollará la singular y bellísima historia de la amistad entre una escritora solitaria y un perro que se ha quedado sin dueño... El libro –galardonado con el National Book Award, instantáneo y sorpresivo éxito de ventas y elogiado de forma unánime por la crítica– es, en efecto, una novela, pero en su interior contiene muchos géneros y registros: porque también asoman el diario íntimo; el dietario en el que se suceden las anécdotas literarias y las citas de autores como Virginia Woolf, J. R. Ackerley o Kundera; y la meditación sobre el dolor de la pérdida, el amor, la soledad, la sexualidad, la sociedad contemporánea, la escritura, las mujeres, los hombres y los perros... Un texto acaso inclasificable que seduce con su diáfana capacidad de abordar con gran sensibilidad temas importantes, con una prosa medida y llena de elegancia. El resultado es deslumbrante y conmovedor, uno de esos raros libros que acompañan al lector para siempre.

El amigo

Após o suicídio do melhor amigo, uma mulher solteira de meia-idade começa a narrar o que se passou depois de sua morte. Essa foi a maneira que ela, escritora e professora universitária de escrita criativa, encontrou para lidar com o luto. Nessa espécie de diário ou conversa dirigida ao amigo, reflete sobre literatura, a arte de escrever e o meio literário, além de relembrar o que aprendeu e viveu com o ex-professor e mentor. Ela não esperava, porém, que o amigo lhe deixaria uma herança inusitada: Apolo, um dogue alemão gigantesco, idoso e traumatizado com a ausência do dono. Ao adotá-lo, ela passa a viver sob a ameaça de despejo, porque o prédio em que mora há mais de trinta anos não aceita cachorros. Enquanto os mais próximos temem que essa conjuntura a tenha mergulhado em uma depressão profunda, a mulher, cada vez mais isolada do mundo e obcecada com o bem-estar de Apolo, que já não dispõe de muito tempo de vida, recusa-se a se separar do novo amigo, pois vê nesse vínculo a única chance de redenção para ambos. O amigo é, ao mesmo tempo, uma meditação sobre o amor, a amizade, a perda e o luto e um relato tocante sobre a ligação especial entre uma mulher e um cachorro.

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