Дженет Фрейм — последние издания книг

«Под крики сов»– проникновенная история детей семьи Уизерс, живущих в маленьком городке в Новой Зеландии в середине XX века. Тринадцатилетняя Фрэнси мечтает стать оперной певицей, но вынуждена бросить школу и устроиться на работу. Жизнь Тоби омрачена приступами эпилепсии, пугающими сестёр и окружающих. Самая младшая, Тереза, пытается избавиться от детского прозвища Цыпка. А невероятное воображение Дафны, которая мечтает стать писательницей и искренне верит в волшебство, обрекает её на психиатрическое лечение. Их взросление – это череда душевных травм, потерь, изоляции, но также примеров силы духа и возникающей надежды, что даже в самые тёмные моменты в жизни можно найти свет.

В двадцать лет Истина Мавет почувствовала непреодолимую пропасть между собой и остальными, и, утратив связь с реальностью, она несколько раз оказывается в психиатрических лечебницах, которые воспринимает не иначе как камеры пыток.

Она — жертва и вместе с тем свидетельница. Чередой проходят перед нами образы несчастных — каждой по‑своему — пациенток. Унылая повседневная рутина. Наказания. Кошмар и боль шоковой терапии. Страх. Беспомощность. Одиночество.

В неподражаемом и, несмотря на мрачность темы, удивительно поэтическом стиле Дженет Фрейм описывает жизнь в психиатрических учреждениях второй половины сороковых годов, хотя и смягчает правду, опасаясь, что ей не поверят.

This selection of ten short stories about women by modern writers (James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Roald Dahl, James Thurber, Edna O’Brien, Anne Cassidy, Malachi Whitaker and Janet Frame) from different English-speaking countries – England, Ireland, America and New Zealand – explores such themes as love’s dilemma, loneliness, crime, myths and…

One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ... A journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone, humorous perspective and imaginative power' Michael Holroyd, Sunday Times

After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. She then went on to become New Zealand's most acclaimed writer. As she says more than once in this autobiography: 'My writing saved me.'

'One of the most beautiful and moving books I have ever read . . . A masterpiece . . . Janet's autobiography had an enormous effect on me. She struck a blow right to my heart' Jane Campion

When Janet Frame's doctor suggested that she write about her traumatic experiences in mental institutions in order to free herself from them, the result was Faces in the Water, a powerful and poignant novel. Istina Mavet descends through increasingly desolate wards, with the threat of leucotomy ever present. As she observes her fellow patients, long dismissed by hospital staff, with humour and compassion, she reveals her original and questing mind.

The Southern Cross cuts through my heart instead of through the sky' Grace Cleave is spending a weekend away from London, where she has been battling with writer's block. But on holiday in the north of England she feels more and more like a migratory bird as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life away from it seem transitory. Grace longs to find her own place in the world ? If she can only decide where that is. But first she must learn to be comfortable in her own skin, feathers and all.

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This collection of stories - Janet Frame's first published book - appeared in New Zealand in 1951, while she was confined in a mental hospital. It won the Hubert Church Award, and a threatened brain operation was averted. These stories bring into focus a crucial turning point in her life.

This is the second volume in Janet Frame's autobiography, in which she tells of how she left the close-knit family home in Oamaru for teacher training college in Dunedin.

Her college years were a time of intense loneliness that culminated in an attempted suicide and commital to a mental institution.

Labelled as a schizophrenic, Janet spent eight harrowing years in psychiatric hospitals until the publication of her prize-winning collection of stories won her a discharge.