Дэйзи Джонсон — новинки

The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt.
This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger. So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl. A woman might give birth to a, well, what?

The electrifying novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under.
'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller' Observer
Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and September.
Desperate for a fresh start, they move across the country to an old family house that has a troubled life of its own. Noises come from behind the walls. Lights flicker of their own accord. Sleep feels impossible, dreams are endless.
In their new, unsettling surroundings, July finds that the fierce bond she's always had with September - forged with a blood promise when they were children - is beginning to change in ways she cannot understand.

Рожденные с разницей всего в десять месяцев, Июль и Сентябрь неразлучны, они не нуждаются ни в ком, кроме друг друга. После инцидента с травлей в школе девочки вместе с матерью перебираются в большой семейный дом на побережье, который долго пустовал. В новой жизни, такой далекой от всех и всего, Июль обнаруживает, что характер их отношений с сестрой постепенно меняется неожиданным образом. В доме поселяется атмосфера страха и тревоги. Девочки расширяют границы дозволенного в своих играх до тех пор, пока не вызывают цепочку шокирующих событий, которые предшествуют пугающим открытиям об их прошлом и будущем.

Рожденные с разницей всего в десять месяцев, Июль и Сентябрь неразлучны, они не нуждаются ни в ком, кроме друг друга. После инцидента с травлей в школе девочки вместе с матерью перебираются в большой семейный дом на побережье, который долго пустовал. В новой жизни, такой далекой от всех и всего, Июль обнаруживает, что характер их отношений с сестрой постепенно меняется неожиданным образом. В доме поселяется атмосфера страха и тревоги. Девочки расширяют границы дозволенного в своих играх до тех пор, пока не вызывают цепочку шокирующих событий, которые предшествуют пугающим открытиям об их прошлом и будущем. Внимание! Аудиозапись содержит нецензурную брань

After a serious case of school bullying becomes too much to bear, sisters July and September move across the country with their mother to a long-abandoned family home. In their new and unsettling surroundings, July finds that the deep bond she has always had with September – a closeness that not even their mother is allowed to penetrate – is starting to change in ways she cannot entirely understand.

Inside the house the tension among the three women builds, while outside the sisters meet a boy who tests the limits of their shared experiences.

From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out.

"One of her generation's most intriguing authors" (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins.

Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior—until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls’ past and future.

Written with radically inventive language and imagery by an author whose work has been described as "entrancing" (The New Yorker), "a force of nature" (The New York Times Book Review), and "weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling" (Celeste Ng), Sisters is a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache—a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other’s darkest impulses.

The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries.

One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel’s name for the thing she feared most. And now that she’s searching for her mother, she’ll have to face it.

Для Гретель слова всегда были настолько важны, что в детстве она вместе с матерью даже изобрела собственный язык, который стал их собственным. Теперь Гретель работает лексикографом, обновляя словарные статьи.

Она не видела мать с 16 лет, когда они жили в лодке на оксфордском канале. Воспоминания о прошлом, давно стершиеся, после одного телефонного звонка внезапно возвращаются: последняя зима на воде, загадочный сбежавший мальчик, странное неуловимое существо, живущее на реке.

"В самой глубине" – вызывающий дебютный роман с сюрреалистической, жуткой атмосферой. Он не оставит вас равнодушным.

Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel’s isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood. She remembers other things, too: the wild years spent on the river; the strange, lonely boy who…

Daisy Johnson’s Fen, set in the fenlands of England, transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere. From that territory grow stories that blend folklore and restless invention to turn out something entirely new. Amid the marshy paths of the fens, a teenager might starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl and grow jealous of her friend. A boy might return from the dead in the guise of a fox. Out beyond the confines of realism, the familiar instincts of sex and hunger blend with the shifting, unpredictable wild as the line between human and animal is effaced by myth and metamorphosis. With a fresh and utterly contemporary voice, Johnson lays bare these stories of women testing the limits of their power to create a startling work of fiction.