Джералдин Брукс — новинки

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner tells a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history
Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamour of any racetrack.
New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a 19th equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.
Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse-one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.
Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America’s greatest stud sire, Horse is an original ,gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America.

Anointed as the chosen one when just a young shepherd boy, David will rise to be king, grasping the throne and establishing his empire. But his journey is a tumultuous one and the consequences of his choices will resound for generations. In a life that takes him from obscurity to fame, he is by turns hero and traitor, glamorous young tyrant and beloved king, murderous despot and remorseful, diminished patriarch. His wives love and fear him, his sons will betray him. It falls to Natan, the courtier and prophet who both counsels and castigates David, to tell the truth about the path he must take.
Brooks has an uncanny ability to hear and transform characters from history, and this beautifully written, unvarnished saga of faith, desire, family, ambition, betrayal, and power will enthral her many fans.

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.

New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.

Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse--one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.

Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come.
In the spring of 1666, a bolt of infected cloth carries the plague from London to the quiet village of Eyam. The villagers elect to isolate themselves in a fateful quarantine, seen through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna Frith. As death and superstition creep from household to household, she must confront loss and the lure of illicit love in an extraordinary Year of Wonders.
This timeless and powerful novel, based on a true story, was the astonishing debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March.

«Год чудес» Джералдин Брукс – яркая, потрясающе актуальная и неожиданно утешительная история о катастрофической эпидемии чумы.

1665 – страшный год, год Великой лондонской чумы. Чудовищная эпидемия неуклонно, но до поры до времени тихо расползается по стране, и вместе с зараженным тюком ткани попадает в маленькую деревушку. Священник говорит, что болезнь – это испытание, посланное Богом, и местные жители решают изолироваться в своей деревне, чтобы не нести заразу дальше. Ужас нарастает постепенно, и вот уже людям остается только молиться. Чума не берет молодую вдову, служанку Анну, которая вместе с женой священника начинает ухаживать за умирающими. Но порой неизвестно, что смертельней: сама эпидемия или суеверия и всепоглощающий страх, который охватывает жителей. В деревушке начинается жестокая охота на ведьм… Но самоотверженность, стойкость и милосердие способны превратить самый жуткий год – в год чудес.

Роковой 1665 год, Великая лондонская чума расползается по стране. Вместе с зараженным тюком ткани она попадает в удаленную деревушку. Болезнь перебирается из дома в дом, жители деревни могут только молиться. Противостоять напасти способны лишь немногие, среди них служанка Анна Фрит. Не подверженная заразе, она становится целительницей. А сельчане тем временем переходят от молитв к охоте на ведьм. Вместе с женой местного священника Анна борется не только с чумой, но и с безумием, распространяющимся среди жителей деревни. Благодаря самоотверженности двух женщин год катастрофы оборачивается годом чудес. Роман вдохновлен реальными событиями, произошедшими в деревне Иэм в суровой холмистой местности Англии.
Удивительным образом эта история об эпидемии в пору, когда медицина пребывала в зачаточном состоянии, резонирует с нашим временем, когда особенно важны отзывчивость и сострадание. Джералдин Брукс рассказывает о том, как стойкость и милосердие одних помогают остальным справиться с суевериями, страхами и дурными порывами.

"„Raamatu rahvas“ viib meid rändama ajas ja ruumis: keskaegsesse rahvaste paabelisse ja inkvisitsiooni süngetesse piinamiskoobastesse Hispaanias, 19. sajandi maailmalinna Viini, teise maailmasõja aegsesse Bosniasse, kus tegutsevad partisanid, ning tänapäeva Ameerikasse, Euroopasse ja Austraaliasse. Eri sajandite sündmusi ühendab üks vana juudi raamat – Sarajevo haggada. Selle iidse käsikirja ajalugu uurides saab noor Austraalia raamatukonservaator Hanna jälile omaenese elu suurele saladusele ning kaotab ja leiab armastuse. Kõrvuti hargnevad Hanna isiklik lugu, mida ilmestavad halb läbisaamine emaga ja haggada ajaloo uurimine, mis kulgeb nagu kriminaalromaanis, ning eri aegadel raamatu omanikuks olnud inimeste lood. Käsikirja lehtede vahele peidetud vihjed juhatavad meid ajas tagasi, raamatut lugenud ja kalliks pidanud inimeste ning lõpuks ka saladusliku kunstniku juurde, kes joonistas selle kaunid ja vastuolulised illustratsioonid. Sarajevo haggada on olemas ka tegelikult: see on 14. sajandist pärit illustreeritud juudi käsikiri, mida säilitatakse Bosnia ja Hertsegoviina rahvusmuuseumis Sarajevos."

Пригодницький роман поведе читачів у подорож минулим, де абсолютно різні за вірою, культурою та національністю люди захищали безцінну Книгу. Сараєво, 1996. Ханна Гіт досліджує середньовічний манускрипт — Сараєвську Агаду. Між його сторінок вона знаходить фрагмент крильця метелика, дрібку солі, білу волосинку, які занурюють читачів в історії людей, що зберігали Книгу протягом століть. Несподівано манускрипт викликає інтерес у влади Боснії й агента Моссаду, і жінка опиняється у вирі політичних інтриг, які має розплутати.

Peeling away the myth to bring the Old Testament's King David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Brooks traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage.
The Secret Chord provides new context for some of the best-known episodes of David’s life while also focusing on others, even more remarkable and emotionally intense, that have been neglected. We see David through the eyes of those who love him or fear him—from the prophet Natan, voice of his conscience, to his wives Mikhal, Avigail, and Batsheva, and finally to Solomon, the late-born son who redeems his Lear-like old age. Brooks has an uncanny ability to hear and transform characters from history, and this beautifully written, unvarnished saga of faith, desire, family, ambition, betrayal, and power will enthrall her many fans.

Carl Fischer is pleased to announce that more than sixty violin solos edited and arranged by the legendary Jascha Heifetz, previously out of print, are once again available for sale, due to popular demand. This title is one of those solos from The Jascha

A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book.

Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.

The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.

Like Brooks's beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing, Caleb's Crossing further establishes Brooks's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.

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Наши дни, Сидней. Известный реставратор Ханна Хит приступает к работе над легендарной "Сараевской Аггадой" - одной из самых древних иллюстрированных рукописей на иврите. Шаг за шагом Ханна раскрывает тайны рукописи - и заглядывает в прошлое людей, хранивших эту книгу… Назад - сквозь века. Все дальше и дальше. Из оккупированной нацистами Южной Европы - в пышную и роскошную Вену расцвета Австро-Венгерской империи. Из Венеции эпохи упадка Светлейшей республики - в средневековую Африку и Испанию времен Изабеллы и Фердинанда. Книга открывает секрет за секретом - и постепенно Ханна узнает историю ее создательницы - прекрасной сарацинки, сумевшей занять видное положение при дворе андалузского эмира. Завораживающую историю запретной любви, смертельной опасности и великого самопожертвования…

Наши дни, Сидней. Известный реставратор Ханна Хит приступает к работе над легендарной "Сараевской Аггадой" - одной из самых древних иллюстрированных рукописей на иврите. Шаг за шагом Ханна раскрывает тайны рукописи - и заглядывает в прошлое людей, хранивших эту книгу... Назад - сквозь века. Все дальше и дальше. Из оккупированной нацистами Южной Европы - в пышную и роскошную Вену расцвета Австро-Венгерской империи. Из Венеции эпохи упадка Светлейшей республики - в средневековую Африку и Испанию времен Изабеллы и Фердинанда. Книга открывает секрет за секретом - и постепенно Ханна узнает историю ее создательницы - прекрасной сарацинки,…

A love story in a time of war. 1861, the first year of the American Civil War. March leaves his beloved wife and daughters to fight for the Northern forces. Alone in a country ripped apart by violence and hatred, he sees things that shake his very soul. He also encounters Grace - a beautiful, educated slave - who had challenged his ideas and changed his life nearly twenty years earlier. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic little women, Geraldine Brooks takes March, the absent father gone to war, and conjures the story of a passionate man struggling not just to return to the heart of his family, but also to keep his faith - in…

The new novel from the author of ‘March’ and ‘Year of Wonders’ takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.
When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript which has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of wartorn Sarajevo, she knows she is on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. A renowned book conservator, she must now make her way to Bosnia to start work on restoring The Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish prayer book – to discover its secrets and piece together the story of its miraculous survival. But the trip will also set in motion a series of events that threaten to rock Hannah’s orderly life, including her encounter with Ozren Karamen, the young librarian who risked his life to save the book.
As meticulously researched as all of Brooks’s previous work, ‘People of the Book’ is a gripping and moving novel about war, art, love and survival.

Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book expert, has been offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding - an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair-she begins to unlock the book's mysteries, ushering in its exquisite and atmospheric past, from its salvation back to its creation through centuries of exile and war.
Inspired by a true story, "People of the Book" is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity - an acclaimed and ambitious work from a Pulitzer Prizewinning author.

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The new novel from the author of ‘March’ and ‘Year of Wonders’ takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure

When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript which has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of wartorn Sarajevo, she knows she is on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. A renowned book conservator, she must now make her way to Bosnia to start work on restoring The Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish prayer book – to discover its secrets and piece together the story of its miraculous survival. But the trip will also set in motion a series of events that threaten to rock Hannah’s orderly life, including her encounter with Ozren Karamen, the young librarian who risked his life to save the book.

As meticulously researched as all of Brooks’s previous work, ‘People of the Book’ is a gripping and moving novel about war, art, love and survival.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick.
From the author of the acclaimed ‘Year of Wonders’ and ‘People of the Book’, a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War.
Set during the American Civil War, ‘March’ tells the story of John March, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in ‘Little Women’, Louisa May Alcott’s classic American novel. In Brooks’s telling, March emerges as an abolitionist and idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith in himself and in the Union cause when he learns that his side, too, is capable of barbarism and racism. As he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a Washington hospital, he must reassemble the shards of his shattered mind and body, and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through.
As Alcott drew on her real-life sisters in shaping the characters of her little women, so Brooks turned to the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa May’s father, an idealistic educator, animal rights exponent and abolitionist who was a friend and confidante of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The story spans the vibrant intellectual world of Concord and the sensuous antebellum South, through to the first year of the Civil War as the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats.
Like her bestselling ‘Year of Wonders’, ‘March’ follows an unconventional love story. It explores the passions between a man and a woman, the tenderness of parent and child, and the life-changing power of an ardently held belief.

As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. Riveting and elegant as it is meticulously researched, March is an extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history. From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war, leaving his wife and daughters to make do in mean times. To evoke him, Brooks turned to the journals and letters of…

Когда весной 1666 года в деревне Им в графстве Дербишир начинается эпидемия чумы, ее жители принимают мужественное решение изолировать себя от внешнего мира, чтобы страшная болезнь не перекинулась на соседние деревни и города. Анна Фрит, молодая вдова и мать двоих детей, — главная героиня романа, из уст которой мы узнаем о событиях того страшного года.