Новинки Шерман Алекси

Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time: the pull between the urban and the rural, the future and the past; the trials and tribulations of young adulthood; the comlex density of daily life. A modern mythmaker with a sharp eye for irony, Sherman Alexie's focus is an American Indian reservation, but his playground is the world.

Что самое паршивое в жизни в нищей индейской резервации? Ну, кроме того, что в животе в основном пусто, дома нет денег, а одноклассники ежедневно лупят не по-детски? А то, что всем, кроме разве что семьи, плевать на тебя, на твои мечты и стремления – всё равно рано или поздно возьмешься за бутылку и помрешь какой-нибудь нелепой смертью, как все индейцы…Но Арнольд Спирит Младший не готов к такому раскладу – он мечтает вырваться из родной резервации и попасть туда, где перед ним, индейцем, наконец-то забрезжит надежда. Вот только бывают ли исключения из правил? В этом наполовину автобиографическом романе Шерман Алекси – коренной американец…

Что самое паршивое в жизни в нищей индейской резервации? Ну, кроме того, что в животе в основном пусто, дома нет денег, а одноклассники ежедневно лупят не по-детски? А то, что всем, кроме разве что семьи, плевать на тебя, на твои мечты и стремления —всё равно рано или поздно возьмешься за бутылку и помрешь какой-нибудь нелепой смертью, как все индейцы...Но Арнольд Спирит Младший не готов к такому раскладу — он мечтает вырваться из родной резервации и попасть туда, где перед ним, индейцем, наконец-то забрезжит надежда. Вот только бывают ли исключения из правил?
В этом наполовину автобиографическом романе Шерман Алекси — коренной американец — рассказал историю своего детства: каково было расти в нищей индейской резервации, а затем набраться смелости и уйти оттуда в школу для белых, чтобы стать кем-то больше, чем бедный индейский мальчишка. За этот честный, полный горького юмора и надежды роман Шерман Алекси получил мировое признание и Национальную книжную премию США в номинации «Детская литература» 2007 года.

A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award winner. When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems, 78 essays and intimate family photographs, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine--growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman. You…

Błyskotliwa opowieść o dojrzewaniu i sile przyjaźni, która zręcznie przeplata zabawne tresści z odrobiną zadumy nad ludzkim losem.

Nastoletni Arnold Spirit wiedzie nudne życie w zabiedzonym rezerwacie Indian Spokane, rysując karykatury, dowcipne historyjki komiksowe i wspólnie ze swoim rówieśnikiem, przyjacielem o imieniu Rowdy, komentuje prześmiewczo codzienne sprawy. Kiedy jeden z nauczycieli namawia Arnolda, aby koniecznie zaczął dążyć do lepszej przyszłości i uciekł od otaczającej go beznadziei, Arnold przenosi się do szkoły w mieście i natychmiast staje się wyrzutkiem we własnej społeczności oraz dziwadłem wśród nowych znajomych.
Arnold przeżywa typowe rozterki nastolatka, czasami odnosi triumfy, kiedy indziej zaś ponosi porażki, a jego pamiętnik staje się uniwersalną kroniką dorastania chłopca, który próbuje przeciwstawić się losowi.

From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son. Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as big Thunder, but little thunder doesn't want to share a name. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Little Thunder thinks all hope is lost, dad picks the best name...Lightning! Their love will be loud and bright, and together they will light…

Sherman Alexie’s stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner award-winning War Dances, have established him as a star in modern literature. A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases all his talents in his newest collection, Blasphemy, where he unites fifteen beloved classics with fifteen new stories in one sweeping…

Fresh off his National Book Award win, Alexie delivers a heartbreaking, hilarious collection of stories that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey through the consequences of both simple and monumental life choices, Alexie introduces us to personal worlds as they transform beyond return. In the title story, a famous writer must decide how to care for his…

In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experience and chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he seems destined to live. Illustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney.

In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experience and chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he seems destined to live.

The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager — a boy who is not a “legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father — who learns the true meaning of terror. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the 19th Century…

Sherman Alexie offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant stories about Native Americans who find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads. In "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above", an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves the lives of dozens of white women all around her, to the bewilderment of her only child. In "Do You Know Where I Am?" two college sweethearts rescue a lost cat - a simple act that has profound moral consequences for the rest of their lives together. In "What You Pawn I Will Redeem", a homeless Indian man must raise $1,000 in twenty-four hours to buy back the fancy dance outfit stolen from his grandmother fifty years earlier. Even as they often make us laugh, Sherman Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candour that cut to the heart of the human experience.

The life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar. Inspired by this gift, Thomas forms Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic band who find themselves on a magical tour that leads from reservation bars to Seattle and New York--and deep within their own souls.

A collection of short fiction reflecting the experience of Native Americans caught in the midst of personal and cultural turmoil includes such works as "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above," "What You Pawn I will Redeem," and "Do You Know Where I Am?"

A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise." In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to come home from the hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden all over…