Майкл Шейбон — библиография

Холмсу 89 лет, он давно отдалился от дел, живёт один со своими пчёлами, и только жалость и стремление помочь мальчику-аутисту, заставляют старика взяться за расследование.

A collection of essays on books and why they matter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ and ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union’.‘Maps and Legends’ is a love song in 16 parts – a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling, rejecting the false walls around 'serious' literature in favour of a wide-ranging affection. His own fiction, meanwhile, is explored from the perspective of personal history: post-collegiate desperation sparks his debut, ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’; procrastination and doubt reveal the way toward ‘Wonder Boys’; a love of comics and a basement golem combine to create the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’; and an enigmatic Yiddish phrasebook unfurls into ‘The Yiddish Policemen's Union’.

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic.One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay’s cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a comic strip called ‘The Escapist’, its superhero a Nazi-busting saviour who liberates the oppressed around the world. ‘The Escapist’ makes their fortune, but Joe can think of only one thing: how can he effect a real-life escape and free his family from the tyranny of Hitler?Michael Chabon’s exceptional novel is a thrilling tightrope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy. In Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay he has created two unforgettable characters bound together by love, family and cartoons.

Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enoughWhat are you allowed to talk about with your children? When to step in with advice, when to let them make their own mistakes? It’s more complicated than you think. Somehow you muddle through.In this heartfelt, humorous and wise book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon attempts to weigh in on difficult conversations with his children, on everything from texting girls to death. But it is when he hangs back that he catches them transforming into their own people. What emerges is a father’s deep respect for his children’s passions and for their bravery in the face of conformity.Whether you know the joy and struggles of being a father, or were shaped by one, you will find a home in these stunning essays.

In this compelling collection of short stories, bestselling author Michael Chabon explores adolescent desire, love, friendship and fatherhood – moving across this powerful emotional ground with subtlety and incisiveness.Written with wryness, whimsy and intellectual depth, this is a collection of eleven wonderful stories of growing up and growing wise.In ‘S Angel’ a group of wedding guests is hijacked by a fast-talking real estate agent, but not before the bride herself disappears. ‘Smoke’ takes us to a baseball catcher’s funeral, where one of the mourners – a has-been pitcher – confronts the ruins of his career. In the hilarious title story, a graduate student plagiarizes a dissertation on the movement of clouds, only to find himself and his faculty advisor in a parlour game where each player must confess the worst thing he or she has ever done. The second part of the book ‘The Lost World’ is a series of stories about a young boy, Nathan Shapiro, who must face the wrenching emotions caused by his parents’ bitter divorce.Serious, yet shot through with wit, humour and compassion, these are unforgettable stories from one of America’s most celebrated writers.

От лауреата Пулитцеровской премии, автора международных бестселлеров «Потрясающие приключения Кавалера & Клея» и «Лунный свет», — «альтернативная история независимого еврейского государства: вместо Палестины оно появляется на Аляске. Там говорят на идиш, изредка устраивают стычки с соседями-индейцами и ждут окончания 60-летнего срока, отмеренного США для обустройства евреев, убежавших от нацистов в годы Второй мировой войны из Европы». И вот на фоне всеобщих апокалиптических ожиданий происходит как бы совершенно заурядное убийство: в дешёвой гостинице «Заменгоф», названной по имени изобретателя языка эсперанто, находят тело…

Входит в сборник «Werewolves in Their Youth» (1999). Когда подозреваемый в том, что он и есть Насильник с Франклинова водоема, предстал перед судом, несколько женщин, его жертв, выступили в печати, назвав себя. Вина этого человека в конечном итоге была доказана, он был осужден и приговорен к пятнадцати годам тюремного заключения в Пеликан-бей. Был он широко известным тренером и преподавателем математики в средней школе Долины и за отменные успехи на двух этих поприщах удостоен награды штата. Два десятка его учеников, нынешних и бывших, вкупе с директором школы рвались дать показания в суде и засвидетельствовать его блестящую характеристику. Именно это — солидное положение, которое насильник занимал среди своих сограждан, да еще неверное истолкование главного свидетельства против него — побудило некоторых из его жертв сбросить покров анонимности, которую полицейское управление Лос-Анджелеса и газеты им гарантировали, и поведать свои горестные истории не только присяжным, но и всему свету. Вторая по счету жертва насильника среди этих женщин, однако, не числилась. Она подверглась нападению 7 августа 1995 года, когда в вечерних сумерках совершала пробежку трусцой вокруг озера Голливуд. Это время было излюбленным у преступника, а место одним из трех, избранных для охоты на женщин. Двумя другими были водохранилище Стон-каньон и Франклинов водоем. Постоянство в выборе времени и места и помогли наконец 29 августа его накрыть. А за день до этого ареста еле заметная розовая метка на тесте, опущенном в мочу, возвестила второй жертве насильника, Каре Глензман, что она беременна.

Окружной прокурор округа Юггогени столкнулся с необычным случаем в своей практике. В лесу был обнаружен труп мужчины — судя по всему, бывшего клоуна — с освежёванной головой. В ходе расследования в руки прокурору попадается исследование Фридриха фон Юнцта. В книге немецкого антрополога описываются два культа, враждующих с древних времен. Там же рассказывается и о некоем ритуале... и все это имеет непосредственное отношение к тому, что произошло в лесу.

For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. But homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner, Berko Shemets, can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life—and also his worst nightmare. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under Landsman's nose. Out of habit, obligation, and a mysterious sense that it somehow offers him a shot at redeeming himself, Landsman begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. But when word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage—and with the unfinished business of his marriage to Bina Gelbfish, the one person who understands his darkest fears. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, an homage to 1940s noir, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.

Это роман о правде и лжи, о великой любви, о семейных легендах и о большом экзистенциальном приключении. Герой Шейбона преследует Вернера фон Брауна в последние дни Второй мировой войны и охотится во Флориде на гигантского питона, сожравшего кота у соседки-пенсионерки, минирует мост возле Вашингтона, строит модели ракет и лунного города и прячет от жены, известной телезрителям как Ночная ведьма Невермор, старую колоду Таро…