Последние издания книг Лусии Берлин

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books
The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.
With an introduction from Lydia Davis
Lucia Berlin's stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction.
With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace, with a voice is witty, anarchic, compassionate, and completely unique.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

'Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny' Observer
'The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace' New York Times
Best known for her short fiction, it was upon publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women in 2015 that Lucia Berlin’s status as a great American writer was widely celebrated. To populate her stories – the p

Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in Paradise Berlin writes about the good, the bad and everything in between: struggling young mothers, husbands who pack their bags and leave in the middle of the night, wives looking back at their first marriage from the distance of their second…
The publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin's dazzling collection of short stories, marked the rediscovery of a writer whose talent had gone unremarked by many. The incredible reaction to Lucia's writing - her ability to capture the beauty and ugliness that coexist in everyday lives, the extraordinary honesty and magnetism with which she draws on her own history to breathe life into her characters - included calls for her contribution to American literature to be as celebrated as that of Raymond Carver.
Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Lucia Berlin's remaining stories - a jewel-box follow-up for her hungry fans.

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin

In 2015, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper's Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews.

Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from the remaining Berlin stories--a jewel box follow-up for Lucia Berlin's hungry fans.

В сборник «Руководство для домработниц» вошли лучшие рассказы Лусии Берлин, которая стала литературной сенсацией года, а сама книга удостоилась самых громких премий, став абсолютным бестселлером по версии The New York Times, и лучшей книгой года по мнению The Guardian, Buzzfeed и Harper’s Bazaar. Истории Берлин разнообразны, как сама жизнь. Они простые, искренние, написанные понятным языком, то смешные, то трагические – найдут ключ к сердцу каждого читателя, а голоса персонажей ее рассказов звучат по-настоящему живо и разнообразно. «Сегодня я украла баночку кунжута “Острова специй”», – говорит Лусия Берлин в рассказе «Руководство для…

Лусия Берлин (1936–2004) опубликовала при жизни несколько сборников рассказов. Но настоящее признание пришло к ней только после смерти, в 2015 году, когда она стала литературной сенсацией года и ее книги вошли в списки бестселлеров. И критики, и читатели оценили порой мрачный юмор, открытость и наблюдательность, легкость и естественность стиля. И трезвое, едкое, иногда суровое, но всегда внимательное отношение к миру, где живут медсестры, алкоголики, учителя, наркоманы, онкобольные, и каждый из них интересен Берлин, она готова прислушаться ко всем.

Sie gilt als das bestgehütete Geheimnis der amerikanischen Literatur. Lucia Berlin ist die Wiederentdeckung des Jahres und wird verglichen mit Raymond Carver, Richard Yates oder Grace Paley. Ihre Storys zeugen von einem unsteten Leben voller Brüche. Es sind Frauen wie sie, deren Schicksal sie festhält: alleinerziehende Mütter, Alkoholikerinnen auf Entzug, Haushaltshilfen, Krankenschwestern und Sekretärinnen. Es geht um Mütter und Töchter, scheiternde Ehen und schwangere Mädchen, um Immigranten, Reichtum und Armut, um Einsamkeit, Liebe und Gewalt. Die Orte des Geschehens sind Waschsalons, Caf?s und Restaurants, Krankenhäuser und Arztpraxen. Hier entsteht das Unerwartete, hier zeigen sich die kleinen Wunder des Lebens, entwickeln sich Tragödien, denen Lucia Berlin mal mit feinem Humor, mal voller Melancholie, aber stets mit ergreifender Empathie auf den Grund geht.

Con su inigualable toque de humor y melancolia, Berlin se hace eco de su vida, asombrosa y convulsa, para crear verdaderos milagros literarios con episodios del dia a dia. Las mujeres de sus relatos estan desorientadas, pero al mismo tiempo son fuertes, inteligentes y, sobre todo extraordinariamente reales. Rien, lloran, aman, beben: sobreviven.

One of "The New York Times Book Review'"s Ten Best Books of 2015 "I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia Davis "A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN" compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts…

Manual per a dones de fer feines, un recull de contes p?stum d'una escriptora desconeguda que L'Altra va publicar el 2016, va tenir una acollida inesperada i entusiasta per part de la cr?tica i dels lectors, va guanyar el Premi Llibreter aquell mateix any i Lucia Berlin, que n'era l'autora, es va convertir en una de les escriptores revelaci? m?s celebrada dels ?ltims anys. A Un vespre al parad?s, un nou recull de vint-i-dos contes, hi retrobem l'estil llumin?s, la calidesa i l'humor negre propis de la Berlin, i la veu ing?nua i l?cida, a voltes crua i desoladora,de les seves protagonistes, sempre dones amb vides complicades i l'?nima immensament lliure. Els relats, la majoria autobiogr?fics, salten de Texas a Xile, de les platges de M?xic als carrers de Nova York, i testimonien l'esperit poc convencional i vital de l'autora, els horrors de l'addicci? i de la s?ndrome d'abstin?ncia, la for?a irracional de la passi? amorosa i la fragilitat del desamor i la solitud. Lucia Berlin troba la bellesa als racons m?s foscos i la foscor als llocs aparentment m?s impol·luts, i els seus relats s?n d'una autenticitat i una candidesa desarmants, unes hist?ries plenes de vida, d'?nima i de veritat que tenen la for?a de canviar la nostra mirada sobre el m?n i les relacions entre les persones.

Homesick (1990) and So Long (1993), her immensely popular short story collections, established Lucia Berlin as the Sister of Mercy of contemporary fiction. In Where I Live Now, Berlin once again contemplates the human condition with a compassionate understanding. Berlin's vision is sometimes remorseful, sometimes resigned, always courageous and unmisgiving.The elusive nature of happiness is a compelling theme here: the survivors in these stories – many of them society's marginal or excluded people, fighting alcohol or drug addiction, bearing emotional scars – recognize it all too well. They mourn the lost dreams of youth, the roads not taken. They suffer the damage life inflicts: the ache of loneliness, the pain of separation, the fear of death.

Lucia Berlin is widely recognized as a master of the short story. This collection captures distilled moments of crisis or epiphany, placing the protagonists in moments of stress or personal strain, and all told in an almost offhand, matter-of-fact voice. Weaving through the places she loved—Chile, Mexico, the Southwest, and California—each story delivers a poignant moment that lingers in the mind, not resolved, not decoded, but resonating, as questions of the human condition always do, in the heart of the reader.