Новинки Лорен Грофф

Автор искусно переплетает духовное и телесное, исследуя темы любви, насилия, власти и веры

Семнадцатилетняя Мари покидает милую ее сердцу Францию, оказывается в чужой, холодной Англии. По повелению Алиеноры Аквитанской она становится приорессой почти нищего монастыря. Сумеет ли она возродить аббатство, сделать его процветающей обителью? Что поможет ей? Вера и сила духа? Трудолюбие и упорство? Жизнь Мари оказывается полна неожиданных поворотов и непростых испытаний.

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive

A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.

Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.

Главный герой романа, Крох, вырос в коммуне, которую в семидесятых организовали несколько десятков энтузиастов на западе штата Нью-Йорк. В коммуне пытались жить сообща, вместе воспитывать детей, питаться тем, что вырастили сами. Но всякой утопии приходит конец. Когда коммуна распадается, Крох отправляется в большой мир и привыкает жить в нем, но судьба поворачивается неожиданным образом, и много лет спустя Крох возвращается в Аркадию, которая так и осталась для него местом, полным чудеc, местом, в которое он верит.

Семнадцатилетняя Мари покидает милую ее сердцу Францию, оказывается в чужой, холодной Англии. По повелению Алиеноры Аквитанской она становится приорессой почти нищего монастыря. Сумеет ли она возродить аббатство, сделать его процветающей обителью? Что поможет ей? Вера и сила духа? Трудолюбие и упорство? Жизнь Мари оказывается полна неожиданных поворотов и непростых испытаний.

Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed The Monsters of Templeton was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In Delicate Edible Birds, she fulfils that promise.
Delicate Edible Birds includes nine stories of vastly different styles and structures. 'L. De Bard and Aliette' recreates the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu epidemic; 'Lucky Chow Fun' returns to Templeton, the setting of Groff's debut novel, for a contemporary account of what happens to outsiders in a small, insular town; the title story of Delicate Edible Birds is a harrowing, powerfully moving drama about a group of war correspondents, a lone woman among them, who fall prey to a frightening man in the French countryside while fleeing the Nazis.
With a dazzling array of voices and settings, Delicate Edible Birds will cement Lauren Groff's reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.

In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land. Abe and Hannah’s only child, Bit, is born into the commune soon after its creation. He grows up there, becoming deeply attached to Arcadia's way of life and everyone within it, in particular the beautiful but troubled Helle. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. He needs to find a way to live in the world beyond Arcadia, but can he let go of the past to forge a new start?

Willie Upton returns to her ancestral home of Templeton, New York after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology professor. The same day, Willie discovers a hard truth about her long-lost father's identity and a prehistoric monster is discovered in the nearby Lake Glimmerglass, bringing frenzy to the quiet town and her life. As Willie investigates her family tree, dark secrets come to light, past and present are blurred and old mysteries are finally put to rest. The Monsters of Templeton is an extraordinary novel by literary virtuoso Lauren Groff.

Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the…

Dwie małe siostry, które nagle zostają same na przepięknej plaży, nie do końca rozumieją, co się wokół nich dzieje, ale przeczuwają, że trzeba szukać ratunku. Podczas wakacji matka z kilkuletnimi synkami zostają w domu na odludziu zdani tylko na siebie; muszą przeżyć, choć w bujnych zaroślach czai się niebezpieczeństwo. Malowniczy cypel zostaje zaatakowany przez huragan i tylko czas pokaże, czy samotna kobieta przetrwa atak żywiołu w opuszczonym miasteczku.

Dla wielu Floryda to miejsce pełne słońca, kryształowo czystej, błękitnej wody i białych piasków. Być może to prawda, ale Lauren Groff w swoich opowiadaniach nie tam nas zabiera. Wraz z autorką odkrywamy mroczne zakątki świata i ludzkiej duszy, w których czai się strach, prawdziwy lub wyimaginowany.

The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive.

Igal suhtel on kaks vaatepunkti. Ja vahel selgub, et õnneliku abielu alus on valed, mitte tõde. Lotto ja Mathilde on kahekümne kahe aastased, kõrget kasvu, kaunid, hullumeelselt armunud ja määratud saavutama midagi suuremat. Uut. Kakskümmend neli aastat hiljem äratab nende püsikindel abielu endiselt kadedust nende sõprades. Kuid tegelikult ei ole kõik nii lihtne. „Moirad ja fuuriad“ jutustab ühe abielu loo nii mehe kui naise silmade kaudu nähtuna. Mees on tunnustatud näitekirjanik, kelle osaks väljavalitus (moirad ehk saatusejumalannad). Sünge lapsepõlvesaladus, mida naine mehe eest varjab, teeb tema pigem äraneetuks (fuuriad).

Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.

At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.

Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.


Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.


At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.

Кожна історія має дві сторони. Будь-які відносини можна розглядати з двох перспектив. А іноді все обертається зовсім химерним чином і ключовим елементом зразкового шлюбу стає не щирість і правда, а брехня і таємниці, які в'язкою цементуючою масою ховаються десь в основі фундаменту. Події цього складного, об’ємного і багатошарового роману відбуваються саме навколо і всередині одного такого Нью-Йоркського подружжя протягом двадцяти чотирьох років.

У віці двадцяти двох років Лотто і Матильда - струнка гламурна, шалено закохана і приречена на видатну долю пара. Десять років по тому їх шлюбу все ще заздрять численні друзі і знайомі. І тут раптово ми починаємо про щось здогадуватися. Тіло вкривається гусячою шкірою, яка натякає нам на те, що все в цій історії ще куди складніше і більш надзвичайне, ніж здавалося. Яким чином в одному шлюбі можуть співіснувати два у корені відмінні один від одного погляди на сім'ю і стосунки?

Вы верите, что залог семейного счастья – честность и доверие. Этот роман разрывает шаблоны, ломает ваши представления о том, что лежит в основе семейного счастья: понимание и уважение или ложь и обман. Популярный драматург Ланселот Саттервайт – Лотто – долго шел к успеху. Он пережил юношеские трагедии, увидел смерть ровесника, отчаянно мечтал о первой красавице колледжа Матильде. Годами рьяно и безуспешно творил и... в один день проснулся знаменитым. А теперь узнаем версию Матильды, его жены… Страсть и ложь, месть и искупление сплетаются в этой истории в невероятный узел.

Every story has two sides.
Every relationship has two perspectives.
And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets.

At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but behind closed doors, things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.

At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.

In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. Arcadia follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday. Arcadia's inhabitants include Handy, the charismatic leader; his wife, Astrid, a midwife; Abe, a master carpenter; Hannah, a baker and historian; and Abe and Hannah's only child, Bit. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. He falls in love with Helle, Handy's lovely, troubled daughter. And eventually he must face the world beyond Arcadia.

In Arcadia, Groff displays her literary gifts to stunning effect.

Семейная сага? Исторический роман? Притча? Как можно определить жанр книги, герои которой принадлежат разным поколениям одной семьи, действие повествования длится несколько столетий, а реальные события переплетаются с фантастическими? Ясно одно: причудливый, загадочный и необычайно красивый роман Лорен Грофф достоин стоять на полке у каждого ценителя современной англоязычной прозы!

In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In "The Wife of the Dictator," that eponymous wife ("brought back . . . from [the dictator's] last visit to America") grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In "Delicate Edible Birds," a group of war correspondents-a lone, high-spirited woman among them-falls sudden prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French countryside. In "Lucky Chow Fun," Groff returns us to Templeton, the setting of her first book, for revelations about the darkness within even that idyllic small town.

In some of these stories, enormous changes happen in an instant. In others, transformations occur across a lifetime--or several lifetimes.

Throughout the collection, Groff displays particular and vivid preoccupations. Crime is a motif--sex crimes, a possible murder, crimes of the heart. Love troubles recur; they're in every story--love in alcoholism, in adultery, in a flood, even in the great flu epidemic of 1918. Some of the love has depths, which are understood too late; some of the love is shallow, and also understood too late. And mastery is a theme--Groff's women swim and baton twirl, become poets, or try and try again to achieve the inner strength to exercise personal freedom.

Overall, these stories announce a notable new literary master. Dazzlingly original and confident, Delicate Edible Birds further solidifies Groff's reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.